Sweet Home 3D 3.0 released

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Sweet Home 3D 3.0

Sweet Home 3D is an interior design Java application for quickly choosing and placing furniture on a house 2D plan drawn by the end-user, with a 3D preview.

Change log:

Version 3.0, November 30, 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.

About Sweet Home 3D:

Sweet Home 3D is a free interior design application that helps you place your furniture on a house 2D plan, with a 3D preview.

You may download Sweet Home 3D to install it on your computer and/or use it online within your browser.

Sweet Home 3D is available in English, French, Portuguese, Italian, German, Spanish, Swedish, Czech, Polish, Hungarian, Greek, Bulgarian, Russian, Vietnamese, Chinese (Simplified) and Japanese.

It may run under Windows, Mac OS X 10.4 to 10.6, Linux and Solaris.

Sweet Home 3D is an open source SourceForge.net project distributed under GNU General Public License.

Personal opinion: It's an excellent program that does what it claims, and the results are very good. It's very easy to use, and my kids use it all the time, with no effort or problems.

Download Sweet Home 3D here.

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Thanks paf for sharing update info