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Sweet Home 3D Tips
Tips
Here are some tips to help you work faster and smarter in Sweet Home 3D.
General
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Use splitters displayed between the panes of the furniture
catalog, home furniture list, home plan and home 3D view, to resize
these panes.
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To test Sweet Home 3D features without risk, remember that
all operations are undoable except the modification of imported
furniture in catalog.
Furniture catalog
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To add more than one piece
of furniture to home at a time, select more than one piece in
furniture catalog.
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To open a category of furniture, double-click on it.
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To modify an imported
piece of furniture, double-click on it.
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When you have many pieces in your furniture catalog, display
the furniture catalog as a searchable
list. Its category combo box and search text field will help
you to find faster the pieces you want to add to plan.
Home furniture list
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To sort home furniture, click on the column title matching
the sorting criterion. At the first click on a column title, the
furniture list will be sorted in ascending order, at the second
click on the same title, the furniture list will be sorted in
descending order, and at the third click on the same title, the
furniture list will be sorted in the order furniture was added
to home.
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To reorder furniture list columns, drag and drop column titles.
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To find where a piece of furniture is placed in the home plan,
select it in the furniture list.
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To modify a piece of furniture,
double-click on it in the furniture list or in the home plan.
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To modify more than one
piece of furniture at a time, select them in the furniture list
or in the home plan and choose Furniture > Modify....
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If you want to handle a set of pieces of furniture as one
piece, select them and choose Furniture > Group. A group
of pieces of furniture appears as one piece in the furniture list
and can be moved, resized and rotated as if it was one piece in
the plan.
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If you want to move a piece (or a group) in an existing group,
select the piece, choose Edit > Cut, then select
the target group and choose Edit > Paste to group menu item.
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When you choose Edit > Copy or Edit > Cut,
the selected objects in furniture list are also copied in clipboard
as a text at CSV format, that you may paste in a text editor or
a spreadsheet (this feature may not work under Linux).
Home plan
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If you have a scanned image of your home plan at your disposal,
import it as a background image
of the plan first. This feature speeds up the drawing of walls.
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To define precisely the scale of the imported background image,
enlarge the background image wizard pane.
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If you want to set different colors on the side of a wall
shared by adjacent rooms, divide it in multiple segments at its
creation or by choosing Plan
> Split wall.
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To build the sloping walls of a garret, choose
different heights at their start and end points.
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When you choose Edit > Copy or Edit > Cut,
the selected objects in the plan are also copied in the clipboard
as an image, that you may paste in an other application (this
feature may not work under Linux). If you prefer an image of the
plan in a vector graphics format, choose Plan > Export to
SVG format... out of the menu.
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To copy the style of an object on other objects of the same kind without displaying
their modification pane, select the object, choose Edit > Copy or Edit > Cut,
then select the objects you want to modify and choose Edit > Paste style menu item.
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Use keyboard arrows to move precisely selected furniture.
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Lock the base plan to select and arrange furniture
without being annoyed by the other kinds of objects displayed in
the plan.
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If you want to select an object which is hidden by other objects
in home plan, select it in the furniture list if it's a piece of furniture ; you may also select any kind of object by placing the mouse cursor where the objects overlap, then selecting the hidden object in the Select object contextual sub-menu. Finally, you may also
select an object in the plan with a selection rectangle that includes it,
into which you unselect the objects that hide it with a click while
maintaining the shift key pressed.
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If you want to deselect an object among the selected ones in the plan, click on it while
maintaining the shift key pressed. If the object is hidden by an other one, you may also choose the hidden object in the Toggle selection contextual sub-menu that replaces the Select object sub-menu when you press the shift key.
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Use alignment lines to help you draw walls, rooms and dimension
lines precisely.
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To move selected objects along the horizontal or vertical axes, use keyboard arrows or drag and drop these objects,
pressing the shift key after you start dragging them.
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To duplicate selected objects in plan, drag and drop them while
keeping the Ctrl key pressed (or under Mac OS X, the alt
key pressed).
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Magnetism set in the preferences
pane can be temporarily toggled in the home plan, by pressing
the Alt key under Windows, the cmd key under Mac OS X or the Shift + Alt keys under Linux.
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To help you draw walls and place furniture, change
the point of view and/or the transparency of walls in the 3D view
of your home.
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To align furniture, select them and choose one of the items
Furniture > Align from the menu. Pieces of furniture
are aligned on the first selected piece.
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To change the visible part of the plan without moving the
scroll bars that surround it, use panning mode by selecting Plan
> Pan menu item. When an other mode is activated in the
plan, this mode may be activated temporarily with the space
key.
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Choose Plan > Zoom in or Plan > Zoom out
to change the plan scale, or roll the mouse wheel forward or backward
while keeping the Ctrl key pressed (or under Mac OS X,
the cmd key pressed). In the latter case, zoom is centered at the mouse cursor location.
Home 3D view
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Choose 3D view > Display in separate window to place
the 3D view at a different place of the screen or a second monitor.
To attach the 3D view back to the main window, choose 3D view
> Display in main window or close the window displaying
the 3D view.
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Press the shift key to increase the effect of mouse
moves and mouse wheel in the 3D view.
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If you can't see some furniture in some rooms, modify
the transparency of walls.
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If some walls, room floors or furniture are too bright, modify
light brightness.
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If you don't know where the virtual visitor is located, roll
the mouse wheel with the mouse pointer in 3D view, it will automatically
select and show the virtual visitor in the home plan.
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Use 3D view > Store point
of view... to store the main points of view, where you'll be able to go back directly later with the
3D view > Go to point of view menu. The time, date and
lens set in the photo creation pane box are also stored with a
point of view. If necessary, choose the 3D view > Delete points of view... menu item to select the
points of view you want to remove.
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By default, the images generated at the two best quality levels
with the photo creation and
video creation panes are
illuminated with lights placed in the middle of the ceiling of
each room and the sun at daytime.
You may improve lighting by deselecting the Add ceiling lights
check box in these panes, changing the current hour / date, changing
compass orientation, adding other light sources and/or adjusting
their power.
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You may export the 3D view to
OBJ format and import the OBJ created file in an other 3D program
like Art of Illusion
or Blender.