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Using this method, you'll be able to create rooms much faster by double-clicking in each surface that matches a room of your home. Note also that a room created with a double click will include the half doorstep of each door placed on its walls. This feature ensures rooms join each other correctly in the 3D view when the doors between rooms are opened.
Editing room attributes. When one room is selected, you may also move each one of its points with the mouse in Select mode, and change the location of its area and of its name with the indicators drawn under texts. Each level is represented by a tab displayed at the top of the plan view and used to select the level into which new walls, furniture and other objects will be added. New level showing in light color walls and ceilings of the lower level.
As shown in figure 14, walls and ceilings of the lower level are displayed with a light color in the plan view to help you use wall or room drawing tools more easily.
Editing level attributes. As shown on figure 15, the level modification pane shows also a table describing all the levels of a home to help you choose the right values compared to other levels. To create underground levels, enter a negative elevation. The level height is used to compute the elevation of the ceilings of the edited level. At any time during the drawing of your home, you can change the point of view used in the 3D view.
In both modes, you can use the mouse or keyboard arrows to change the current point of view, as shown as in figures 16 and When Virtual visit mode is selected, a virtual visitor seen from top is also drawn in the home plan.
Its location and its angle is updated simultaneously in the plan and 3D view with each move of the visitor. This virtual visitor is surrounded by four indicators, as shown in figure Indicators of the virtual visitor. The head angle indicator shows the angle you can change to move the visitor's head up or down. The field of view indicator shows the angle that is currently viewed in the 3D view. The body angle indicator shows the angle you can change to move the visitor's body to the left or to the right.
The eyes elevation indicator shows the point you can drag to move up or down the visitor's point of view. Editing 3D view attributes. After changing ground and sky colors, figure 20 shows two 3D view screen shots of the home designed in this tutorial.
To draw dimensions, click first on the Create dimensions button. You can create a new dimension in the plan using either way:. In both cases, the new dimension won't have any extension line if you don't move the mouse between the second and the third click. Drawing dimensions. To add free texts in plan, click first on the Add texts button. Click at the location where you want to add a text in the home plan, and enter its text in the dialog box that will appear.
A free text with bold style. At any time, you may change the size and the style of the selected texts with the text style buttons. By default, Sweet Home 3D prints the furniture list, the plan and the current 3D view of home, using default paper size, margins and orientation.
Page setup. Click on the Create photo As shown in figure 24, the pane used to create photos lets you choose also the quality level of the created image. With a fast quality level, the created image will look as in the 3D view, whereas with the best quality level, the image will be more photorealistic. At the two best quality levels, you may manage the illumination of the image by adding lights at a different power level or by changing the hour. Creating photo.
Computing an image at the best quality level may take a very long time depending of your home and the power of your computer. Nevertheless, note that you can still modify your home during this calculus. From its description at Java 3D web site , this discussion and this one available on Sweet Home 3D forums, you may change the color of the different parts of an OBJ model by adding usemtl colorName rows in the file, where colorName is one of the color described in this document.
From version 1. How can I create a new category of furniture? During the Import furniture wizard, you may choose the category of an imported 3D model with an editable drop down list.
Thus, if you want to add an imported model to a new category, type a new category name in the text field of this drop down list. If it doesn't exist, it will be created. Which program can I use to create 3D model files? Among the free programs, start with Art of Illusion if you never used any 3D modeling program, because it's quite easy to learn and use. Blender is also a very popular program supported by a large community, but it's much more difficult to learn. How can I transfer the furniture I imported on an other computer?
Whether they come from the default catalog or were imported, all the pieces of furniture you use in a home are saved in the matching SH3D file. Thus you may transfer and open a SH3D file on any other computer even if it runs under an other operating system. On the other side, the pieces imported in the catalog of Sweet Home 3D are saved in private folders separate from program one to avoid losing them during an upgrade of the program. Please read the answer to the same question in the Installation section.
If it doesn't solve your problem, you may also try to import librairies of additional 3D models. Other features How can I create a roof on top of a house? Sweet Home 3D supports the creation of ceilings seen from below, but doesn't propose some simple way to create roofs yet.
Nevertheless, you can use various tricks to cover a house: if the roof is flat, you can draw rooms in a level matching that roof. If you want to add a sloping roof, you may assemble blue slate roof , red slate roof or polygonal roof 3D models available at the 3D models import page, as well as the ones available in 3D Models Contributions Tracking System like Krams's models and OK Hoff's models. From the version 5.
How can I create different stories or levels in a home? From version 3. How can I create round walls? You may create round walls either with the Wall creation tool, or afterwards with the wall modification pane or with a drag-and-drop of the indicator displayed at the half of a wall. If you want to draw a round wall during its creation, keep the ctrl key alt key under Mac OS X pressed when you click a second time at the end point of a new wall; an arc of a circle joining the two ends of the new wall will appear, and you can modify the arc extent of the round wall by moving the mouse pointer, until you click a third time.
To modify the arc extent of a wall afterwards, double-click on the wall and modify the value of the Arc extent field in its wall modification pane. How can I change the opening side of a door or a window?
When magnestism is active, the opening side of a door or a window towards the interior or the exterior depends on the side of the wall where you drag and drop it. The location of the rotation axis of a door or a window towards the left or the right may be reversed by double clicking on it in the plan or the furniture list, then selecting the Mirrored shape option in the furniture modification pane. Is it possible to manually set the rotation center of the 3D view in Aerial view mode?
In Aerial view mode, the observer can turn around his home in the 3D view to view it from various angles. By default, this rotation is centered on the middle of the bounding box which contains all the walls, rooms and furniture added to home, and this center is automatically updated at each modification. This behavior ensures the user always sees his home entirely with no way to get lost in the 3D view.
If you want to move this center of rotation, enable the Aerial view centered on selection option in the preferences pane and select the object s in the plan around which the aerial view will turn, or use the Virtual visit mode which lets you choose any point of view. If you want to see some rooms hidden by walls in Aerial view mode, you may also set the walls transparency in the modification pane of the 3D view. Importing a background image seemed to run correctly but no image appears in plan.
What is going on? Check the size you chose during the second step of the Import background image wizard. The entered value must match the size of the line drawn below in the real life, not its size at screen or on the paper you scanned.
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