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Sweet Home 3D Changelog

What's new in Sweet Home 3D 5.0

Aug 21, 2015
  • Added a tool to draw polylines in the plan with various styles.
  • Added the ability to display baseboards with wall and room modification panes.
  • Made levels possibly not viewable with the new Viewable check box of their modification pane or with the new Make level unviewable menu item.
  • Managed levels at the same elevation as layers with an order index that can be set in levels modification pane (may provoke some small changes in existing SH3D files).
  • Added Edit > Paste style menu item to modify the style of the selected objects from the object of the same type copied in the clipboard.
  • Added Add point to room and Delete point from room menu items in the contextual menu of the plan.
  • Added the ability to select objects in furniture groups, edit them and delete them, without the need to ungroup grouped objects.
  • Added Furniture > Add to group and Edit > Paste to group menu items to add objects to the selected group.
  • Saved expanded groups in the furniture list.
  • Added an option in preferences pane to change the default font.
  • Added the ability to change the font and the color of free texts in their modification pane, as well as to display them in the 3D view at a given elevation.
  • Added $level variable in print setup dialog box to print the name of the printed level in page header or footer.
  • Checked the size of the image chosen in the background image and texture import wizards to propose to reduce it if it's very large.
  • Proposed directly to save the current home after selecting Sweet Home 3D > Quit menu item under Mac OS X, when only one modified home is opened.
  • Displayed an information message once a furniture or textures library import is completed.
  • Allowed the pitch angle of the point of view to be between -90° and 90°.
  • Accepted 1/8 1/4 3/8 1/2 5/8 3/4 7/8 fraction text to be entered when Foot/Inch/Fraction unit is in use.
  • Fixed the management of negative values in Foot/Inch/Fraction unit.
  • Improved DAE/Collada format support to accept files with missing data.
  • Fixed a bug that prevented to render photos at the two highest quality levels when Turkish localization is in use.
  • Included Dutch localization written by Gerwin Harmsen and Rob van den Berg.
  • Included Traditional Chinese localization written by Lee Shin-Chun.
  • Updated French, English and Chinese help pages.
  • Upgraded Java 3D to version 1.6.0-pre12 / JOGL 2.3.1 for the Mac OS X version run with Java 7 / 8.
  • Replaced JRE 6u45 by JRE 8u51 in Sweet Home 3D installers bundled with Java under Windows.
  • Other minor bugs fixes and enhancements.

New in Sweet Home 3D 3.7 (Feb 22, 2013)

  • Displayed groups in the furniture table as expandable / collapsible tree nodes.
  • Used antialiasing in the 3D view when possible.
  • Fixed a bug that could create invalid SH3D files after the importation of a 3D model file containing non ASCII characters (like accentuated letters).
  • Fixed the management of multiple holes in polygons defined in imported DAE files.
  • Forbade window resizing while a SH3D file is opened under Mac OS X, to avoid program freezing.
  • Saved in a SH3D file only the textures of the SH3T file used by the home.
  • Released the version 1.0 (670 kB) of the Textures Library Editor, a separate tool that lets the user create and edit easily SH3T files.
  • Updated the new portable version of Sweet Home 3D (version 3.7, 116 MB) et Furniture Library Editor (version 1.9, 5 Mo).
  • Replaced JRE 6u35 by JRE 6u37 in Sweet Home 3D installers bundled with Java.
  • Other minor bugs fixes and enhancements.

New in Sweet Home 3D 3.0 (Dec 6, 2010)

  • Added suport for round walls.
  • Added 3D view > Store point of view... menu item to save the current point of view, and 3D view > Go to point of view menu to go back to a saved point of view.
  • Added a compass displayed in the plan as a compass rose and associated to the geographic location of the home.
  • Improved photo rendering at the two best quality levels (windows and images transparency support, sun orientation depending on the chosen hour and date, lights management, matt / shiny appearance of surfaces).
  • Added 5 lights and 8 colored light sources to the default furniture catalog.
  • Displayed selected light sources with wireframe spheres in the 3D view.
  • Changed the indicator and the behavior of the bottom left corner of lights to be able to update their light power.
  • Added the Keep proportions option to furniture modification dialog to keep furniture proportions when their size is edited.
  • Added the Part of base plan option to furniture modification dialog to be able to lock a piece of furniture when the base plan is locked.
  • Included all non movable furniture in the locked plan.
  • Improved the computing of shadows on the floor of 3D models containing many vertices to avoid the program to hang at the second quality photo rendering level.
  • Improved the computing of the max altitude and the 3D rendering in Aerial view mode.
  • Updated wrong normals values in some 3D models of the default catalog to improve their rendering.
  • Added a cross hatch pattern for walls.
  • Print / Copy / Export of the background image if it's displayed in the plan.
  • Managed saving of homes data at regular time intervals in a private folder, with automatic recovery of homes in case the program crashed.
  • Added automatic deletion of temporary files created by Sweet Home 3D older than a week.
  • Kept shapes prefix of furniture exported at OBJ format, to restore prefixed shapes properties correctly at reimporation time.
  • Saved Sweet Home 3D preferences in a file independent from Operating System preferences to simplify the transfer of Sweet Home 3D configuration to an other computer.
  • Added com.eteks.sweethome3d.preferencesFolder and com.eteks.sweethome3d.applicationFolders system properties to set the folders where are stored Sweet Home 3D preferences and SH3F, SH3T, SH3L and SH3P files.
  • Increased the recent files maximum count to 10.
  • Waited for a first move of the mouse pointer before duplicating selected items when the ctrl key (or alt key under Mac OS X) is pressed.
  • Improved items move with the mouse when they are very small in the plan.
  • Increased the moves of selected items in the plan when the keyboard arrows are pressed with the shift key.
  • Reversed the effect of pressing the shift key for moves in the 3D view.
  • Correction de bugs qui empêchaient le bon affichage des sols des pièces qui se chevauchent.
  • Updated help pages (only in English and French in this version).
  • Removed the ID column from the columns list displayed in Furniture Library Editor.
  • Replaced JRE 6u21 by JRE 6u22 in Sweet Home 3D installers bundled with Java.
  • Other minor bugs fixes and enhancements.

New in Sweet Home 3D 2.6 (Aug 23, 2010)

  • Computed correctly holes made in a wall by doors and windows superimposed on top of each other.
  • Removed the shininess that appeared on walls and floors under some view angles.
  • Fixed a bug that prevented to save a video under Mac OS X.
  • Fixed a bug that stopped rendering 3D models with too large texture coordinates.
  • Fixed a bug that prevented to use some 3D models containing many shapes.
  • Improved DAE/Collada support for files exported from Solidworks and other tools.
  • Updated Furniture Library Editor to version 1.1 to fix a few minor bugs.
  • Replaced JRE 6u20 by JRE 6u21 in Sweet Home 3D installers bundled with Java.
  • Other minor bugs fixes and enhancements.

New in Sweet Home 3D 1.8 (Apr 5, 2009)

  • This new version provides the ability to lock base plan and to export to SVG format, localizations in Greek and Chinese (Simplified).

New in Sweet Home 3D 1.7 (Mar 16, 2009)

  • Automatic adjustment of the thickness and the orientation of a door or a window dropped upon a wall.
  • Automatic adjustment of the location and the orientation of a piece of furniture dropped along a wall.
  • Automatic elevation of an piece of furniture dropped on an other one.
  • Drawn the sashes of doors and windows with an arc of a circle (this feature is only available for doors and windows of the catalog provided from version 1.7 and for furniture libraries from version 1.0.3).
  • Drawn the front face of the selected furniture with a thicker line in the plan.
  • Drawn the bounding rectangle of a piece dragged in the plan, during its initial drag and drop.
  • Managed the drag and drop cursor with the icon of the added piece of furniture under Mac OS X.
  • Automatic move of pasted objects only when they can't be distinguished from current selection in plan.
  • Fixed a bug that wrongly changed the default wall height and wall thickness in preferences pane when the user changed the unit.
  • Other minor bugs fixes and enhancements.

New in Sweet Home 3D 1.4 (Oct 10, 2008)

  • he archives of this release contain Windows / Mac OS X / Linux installers for Sweet Home 3D v 1.4, an interior design application. This new version provides bug corrections, texture images import, export to OBJ format, Swedish localization and other enhancements described at http://sweethome3d.sourceforge.net/history.html . Please read http://sweethome3d.sourceforge.net/download.html for more instructions about installation process.