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Sweet Home 3D is a free interior design application

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Re: Sweet Home 3D is a free interior design application

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Post by rubidium »

Used it for a full house renovation of a 125 year old house (merging a duplex to a single family and moving stairwalls). Was super valuable and used the drawings to get my plan approved by the city. The 3d view really helped in visualizing what the new spaces would feel like.

A bit of a learning curve but the flexible ability to import 3d models really helped. Now that i have every room in my house I can quickly test new furniture layouts.

Highly recommend it.

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Post by michaelmior »

Sweet Home 3D is pretty popular among users of the ha-floorplan add-on[0] for the Home Assistant home automation platform. It takes some work, but you can do some really cool things like show which lights are on, who is in what room of the house, etc.

[0] https://github.com/ExperienceLovelace/ha-floorplan

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Post by Eisenstein »

philote wrote: post #29
Eisenstein wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have been playing with RTAB-Map and a Kinect, and exporting to various formats and it works reasonably well, but is still far from user-friendly. They also have a iOS version if you want to play around with it.

Ooh, I just found my old Kinect yesterday. I'll have to play around with this.

Download RTABMap and the OpenNI drivers and export as ply and use CloudCompare and MeshLab to play with the pointclouds. I am not a fan of the mesh function in RTAB-Map and there are some buggy options which insta-crash it on export. Meshlab is also super-buggy and has a terrible GUI. Have fun!

EDIT - PLY not PCL

Re: Sweet Home 3D is a free interior design application

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Post by goleary »

I use https://floorplanner.com for similar purposes (I pay $5/month). It is great at getting the floorplan nailed, but leaves a bit to be desired when trying to fill the space with accurate furniture, patterns etc. You can have multiple variations floor plans per level.

My gf uses https://foyr.com once we have the floor plan nailed to get an idea about what colors, textures & furniture to use in a space. It supports higher def renderings. It's kind of expensive though iirc.

Re: Sweet Home 3D is a free interior design application

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Post by michaelmior »

alanbernstein wrote: post #4

I had a need for this kind of tool a while ago, and this was the ONLY decent option I found. I'm just wondering what alternatives are even available. I figured there must be some professional software for this, but if so, I don't know what it is. I was pretty happy with this for whatever project I was doing at the time. I recently started using inkscape, for a general purpose drawing of my house. I can also include l…

I like magicplan[0]. It's not perfect, but I like that I can just point my phone around the room and tap on points to create a rough layout. You can add in precise measurements later if you choose to.

[0] https://www.magicplan.app/

Re: Sweet Home 3D is a free interior design application

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Post by rubidium »

goleary wrote: post #34

I use https://floorplanner.com for similar purposes (I pay $5/month). It is great at getting the floorplan nailed, but leaves a bit to be desired when trying to fill the space with accurate furniture, patterns etc. You can have multiple variations floor plans per level. My gf uses https://foyr.com once we have the floor plan nailed to get an idea about what colors, textures & furniture to use in a space. It supports…

Sweet home 3-D is free. Does everything that you’re paying for and will still be around in 10 years.

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Post by voakbasda »

I used Sweet Home 3D to design my current house. I passed the desgin off to my contractor, who had it turned into blueprints. That was over 10 years ago, so I'm sure it has impoved.

It's free and open source, yet it's relatively user friendly. When I need to design another building, I definitely will use it again.

Re: Sweet Home 3D is a free interior design application

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Post by mikepurvis »

guidoism wrote: post #6

I tried hard to make Sweet Home work for me. It solves the quick and dirty use case but I really wanted something where I could measure out every dimension in the house with a laser measurer, describe the shape and the relationships between the objects and let the computer do the rest. In a program like Sweet Home, and every other floor plan program out there if you make one change (like updating the measurement of t…

This has been a source of frustration for me too, as I've occasionally tried out these kinds of packages. Particularly having used model-oriented dimensionless CAD tools like Solidworks, it feels like stepping back in time four decades to suddenly have to manually dimension and align everything upfront.
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