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Key Details of Sweet Home 3D

  • Draw the plan of your home and view the result in a 3D view
  • Last updated on 07/17/19
  • There have been 0 updates within the past 6 months
  • The current version has 0 flags on VirusTotal badge_icon

Editors’ Review

Download.com staff

Sweet Home 3D allows users to visualize a remodeled room or a new home before construction begins. With a straightforward premise and notable results, this software has become useful for individuals and professionals alike. While not without its flaws, Sweet Home 3D is undoubtedly a platform that stimulates creativity and facilitates interior design planning.

The program's interface remains user-friendly and intuitive. The left side of the screen features a file tree that categorizes each room in the house, and selecting a room reveals a list of furniture and design elements specific to that space. Users can drag and drop these elements into the adjacent grid, which includes measurements to align with real-world dimensions. Below the file tree, the interface lists details about the selected furniture, such as its size and placement within the room. The bottom section of the interface offers a 3D visualization box, making it easier to assess how the room's layout and design appear in reality.

One standout feature of Sweet Home 3D is the "Virtual Visit" mode. This functionality allows users to walk through their design virtually, offering a realistic sense of how the space will look and feel once implemented. Moreover, the program supports importing custom furniture models, expanding creative possibilities, and making the tool suitable for more personalized projects.

Recent updates to Sweet Home 3D have introduced improved rendering capabilities and additional customization options. These include enhanced texture editing for walls and furniture, improved lighting effects, and a wider selection of pre-installed models. Additionally, the program now supports high-resolution image export, which is invaluable for sharing designs with clients or collaborators. Despite these improvements, the controls for placing items in the grid can still feel slightly cumbersome, particularly for users new to the software. However, practice and familiarity significantly mitigate this challenge.

Sweet Home 3D is more industrial and realistic than any other Planner 5D app. While the user interface in Planner 5D is considerably more polished and visually appealing, the drag-and-drop experience is almost twice as smooth and responsive as the experience offered by it. Planner 5D is free, but many features are limited unless the user subscribes. However, Sweet Home 2D, compared to Sweet Home 3D, comes with a rich set of tools, including the capability to design detailed designs and export them in high resolution for free. Another critical distinction lies in customization: Planner 5D is regarded as a realistic rendering product with a rich furniture library. However, Sweet Home 3D's ability to accept external 3D models adds greater flexibility to users needing unusual creations.

Bottom Line

In conclusion, Sweet Home 3D continues to be a reliable and accessible tool for interior design enthusiasts. Its recent updates enhance its practicality, and while it may lack the polished interface of competitors like Planner 5D, it remains a cost-effective and versatile choice for those who value customization and detailed planning. For anyone considering a remodeling project or simply experimenting with design ideas, Sweet Home 3D offers an excellent starting point.

What’s new in version 6.2

  • Fixed a bug which prevented from modifying a piece of furniture in Virtual visit mode, after adding that piece to a group in Aerial view mode.
  • Fixed the totals update after a price change of a piece belonging to a furniture group.
  • Fixed a bug which prevented from changing a textured material to white color.
  • Fixed horizontal and vertical alignment while moving room or furniture names with the mouse and the Shift key pressed.
  • Added Adjustable searchable tag to find more easily an adjustable 3D model among the 87 available ones.
  • After Select all at all levels menu item is chosen, exported all selected items to OBJ format whether they belong to a level visible in the 3D view or not.
  • Other minor bugs fixes and enhancements.


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Full Specifications

GENERAL
Release
Latest update
Version
6.2
OPERATING SYSTEMS
Platform
Windows
Operating System
  • Windows 10
  • Windows XP
  • Windows 7
  • Windows Vista
  • Windows 2000
  • Windows Server
  • Windows 2003
  • Windows 8
Additional Requirements
None
POPULARITY
Total Downloads
998,912
Downloads Last Week
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Developer’s Description

Draw the plan of your home and view the result in a 3D view.
Sweet Home 3D helps you to design your interior quickly and easily: draw the rooms of each level 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 with customized lights, create a movie from a virtual path in 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, Portuguese, Bulgarian, Chinese, Czech, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, and Vietnamese languages.

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