I used this for a recent home renovation project, highly recommended. It has everything I needed to layout a house and get a basic 3d rendering, it worked great. You can make a donation to help out the author on the homepage.
Sweet Home 3D is a free interior design application
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#72Cool stuff! Will give it a try next time I need something like this.
I found https://floorplanner.com/ to be quite useful as well. The renders are good enough for me to feel like I am looking at the space rather than a sketch.
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#73I 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…
You (like me) are looking for a parametric modeler. SolveSpace is pretty good for that
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#74I did a full design of an addition for my home with it, now i Just need to find a contractor in the bay area who doesn't charge an arm and a leg to bring it to fruition
Good, fast and reasonably priced, pick the two that are most important to you. You won't get all three.
Re: Sweet Home 3D is a free interior design application
#75I 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…
You (like me) are looking for a parametric modeler. SolveSpace is pretty good for that
>You (like me) are looking for a parametric modeler. SolveSpace is pretty good for that
OpenSCAD is my go-to since you just write code.
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#76I 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…
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#77A few years ago I recall trying to use Sweet Home 3D and being dissatisfied, but I don't honestly recall why. Maybe it was taking me too long to figure it out.
I found Live Home 3D which is cross platform and purchased a license for it. I think it's free on Windows.
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#78I would love to get a copy of whatever the software was they used at the home improvement store when my parents bought cabinets back in 1990? I remember it running on an IBM PS/2 style machine (the all in one) and it had very slow wireframe graphics.
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#79Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is definitely the eventual answer. I can't imagine in ten years we will be hand measuring walls.
Oh, yes we will. Unless you want to move all the furniture out of place (even in-built one), all the heavy stuff blocking edges and corners from view etc. Good luck with that bathroom sink or kitchen counter-top. And angles and inequalities (eg. top edge vs bottom edge), that gets funny fast.
TBF that would be a good application of AI to infer what is clutter and what is not from the visual light image of the same space, the wall behind an object can simply be inferred from the sections of that wall that aren't occluded by the clutter. It might not catch some obscure cases where clutter obscures some anomalous part of the wall, but it'll be good enough in the other 99% of cases. Multiple viewpoints would probably deal with a large number of oddities too - much how photometry can get more accurate with more viewpoints already.
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#80I 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…
I used floorplanner for my last remodel. It was great. The contracting company was really impressed by what I gave them.
I'd say it will take a few hours to get used to it and after that you can probably do most of what you want to do.