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- Date added: September 30, 2009
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Reviewed by: CNET staff on June 24, 2009
Sweet Home 3D offers users a chance to see a remodeled room or a brand new home before a single nail has been driven. With a fairly simple premise and impressive results, this slightly flawed program is certainly something to get the imagination going.
The program's interface is very easy to use. The left side of the screen contains a file tree for every room in the house, and clicking on each room presents a list of all appropriate furniture you can drag into the adjacent box. The area is a grid with measurements corresponding to room size. Below the file tree is a space for each item in the room and its approximate size. At the bottom of the screen is a small box that provides the 3D view. Designing a room is very simple. By dragging furniture into the grid and positioning it as you envision your redesigned room, a clear picture appears below, providing an impression of space that two-dimensional sketches cannot. In addition, there is an exciting Virtual Visit option that lets you walk through your home and its rooms.
While the results of Sweet Home 3D were impressive, we were slightly disappointed with its control. Placing items in the room will take some patience, as it feels rather clunky. However, with a little practice, we are certain users will be able to use this free program to design something impressive.
Publisher's description
From eTeks :Sweet Home 3D helps you to design your interior quickly and easily: draw the walls of your home upon the image of an existing plan, change the color or the texture of each room, and drag and drop furniture onto the plan from a catalog organized by categories (windows, doors, living room, kitchen), in which you can import 3D models created by yourself or downloaded from various Web sites. All the changes made in the 2D plan are simultaneously reflected in a 3D view, and you can navigate in it either from an aerial view point, or from a virtual visitor view point. Finally, you can improve your home plan by adding dimensions and texts to it, print it along with the 3D view, create a photorealistic image of the 3D view, and export the plan to SVG format or the 3D view to OBJ format to import them in other 2D or 3D software. Sweet Home 3D is available in English, Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese (Simplified), Czech, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Swedish and Vietnamese languages.
What's new in this version:
Version 2.1 brings bugs fixes and localizations in Japanese and Vietnamese.
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Version: Sweet Home 3D 2.1
"Super easy to use and accurate too."
Pros: Easy to use point and click then drag and drop interface. Keyboard input system also allows millimetre accurate sizing and positioning where precision is important. Ready made models of most house or office furnishings.
Cons: Truly can't find any yet. It does exactly what is says on the tin. I suppose if you are looking for a full blown CAD package, this isn't it. But then who claimed it would be?
Summary: I am a civil engineer and work with building designs for a living. Being used to much more complex packages, I didn't expect much from this one. However, I was pleasantly surprized. It works straight out of the box. It is fast to use and bug free. <... read more >>
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Version: Sweet Home 3D 2.1
"Helped novice do floor plan on first try"
Pros: It was fairly easy to use and helped me to do the one thing I wanted to lay out the furniture in one room.
Cons: I figured out how it worked mostly from trial and error. Very few instructions. But the program was reasonably intuitive and it didn't take me too long to figure it out.
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Version: Sweet Home 3D 2.1
Pros: Easy to use, free, spectacular results.
Cons: I hope you don't need a house with multiple floors, cause it didn't found an option to that yet (even though you can make the second floor separately as a new house).
Summary: It is easy to learn and use, free, made for regular users that do not know how to use a professional software as Auto Cad. It can work on other platforms to as Mac and Linux. You can make great things in it, also you can create your own 3D objects i... read more >>
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Version: Sweet Home 3D 2.1
Pros: Easy to use
superior spanish versionCons: You can't put celings
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Version: Sweet Home 3D 2.1
Pros: Relatively easy to get started.
Lots of useable and tweakable furniture.
3D-view and changing of viewpoint and walkthroughCons: Does not show measurements.
Does not calculate floorsize or wallsizeSummary: For a free programme you get a lot of useful features and its easy to use
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