Sweet Home 3D 2.1

Sweet Home 3D 2.1 is a simple as well as convenient interior design application that helps you place your furniture on a house 2D plan, with a 3D preview.

Major Features:

1. It 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
   • 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.
2. 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.
3. Finally, you can improve your home plan by adding dimensions and texts to it, print it along with the 3D view, and export to OBJ format the objects of the 3D view to import them in other 3D software.
4. Sweet Home 3D is available in English, French, Brazilian Portuguese, Italian, German, Spanish, Swedish, Czech, Polish, Hungarian, and Russian.

Enhancements:

• As the Online version available on sweethome3d.eu is now able to save homes in the private space of the users registered to the site, its applet was improved to be able to:
• save user preferences on server,
• export a home at SH3D format to edit it with the downloadable version,
• follow modifications made in the edited home to avoid the user changing browser page without saving it,
• display the memory amount used by Java in the browser status bar.
• Improved loading performances of a SH3D file.
• Renamed print process as Sweet Home 3D followed by home name.
• Fixed a bug in photo-realistic rendering that displayed black polygons around a home.
• Fixed a bug that prevented home plan to be rendered correctly when walls were created with a double-click in a room which contains two points very close to each other.
• Fixed a bug that caused memory leaks when importing 3D models and when creating photos.
• Fixed a bug under Mac OS X that made menus and their shortcuts disappear after displaying Preferences or About dialog boxes.
• Reduced maximum used memory from 1024 MB to 512 MB to avoid could not create the Java virtual machine errors under Windows.
• Replaced JRE 6u14 by JRE 6u16 in Sweet Home 3D installers bundled with Java.
• Added Japanese localization written by Takahiro Sato.
• Added Vietnamese localization of the user interface written by Phùng Lê Tuấn.
• Other minor bugs fixes and enhancements.

Requirements:

• Sweet Home 3D may be run under Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) to 10.6 (Snow Leopard)
• Your computer should have at least a processor running at 400 MHz, 256 MB and a graphic card with its driver updated (it runs slowly but successfully on a iMac DV).
• Note that Sweet Home 3D offline installer doesn't run under Windows 98 (SP1 or SP2). Under that system, you can install Sweet Home 3D only with Java Web Start, meaning you must install Java first, then click on the link Launch Sweet Home 3D with Java Web Start.