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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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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 think "floor plan app" is the keyword you want to use, there are a bunch of these. You draw a floor plan and then most of them can give you a 3d render based on that. I used floorplanner.com, but there are several options.

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

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I'm moving to a new house in the next few weeks, so I'll be firing this up again soon. It was fun to model our current house, and it was very useful for figuring out interior design. I also used it to set up some floorplans in Home Assistant using https://github.com/adizanni/floor3d-card And a 2D version with https://github.com/ExperienceLovelace/ha-floorplan

The home automation floorplan stuff was a fun project, but I don't really use it. I found that it's not as useful as a simple dashboard page with plain buttons and cards. But it was fun to work on just as a hobby, like painting models or setting up a model train set.

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

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> this was the ONLY decent option I found Can SketchUp do any of this?

It can, but when I last looked, you needed the paid version to have similar features.

Fusion 360 is free for personal use. It could probably do this

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

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> this was the ONLY decent option I found Can SketchUp do any of this?

It can, but when I last looked, you needed the paid version to have similar features.

I recommend modeling in Blender and importing to Unreal, which has a library of furnishings and real time rendering.

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

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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…

> org-mode

Of course you did....

Gods above I love org-mode.

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