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

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Post by AdamTReineke »

romwell wrote: post #75
zdimension wrote: post #73

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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.

I never figured out how to relate primitives to each other in OpenSCAD so my models were an endless soup of absolute position math. I used SolveSpace for a while and it was brilliant because what took hours in OpenSCAD took just a fraction of the time. And then I picked up the Maker license for Solidworks ($100/yr) and haven't looked back.

I rendered my whole house in Solidworks to plan for a remodel and it was extremely well suited for the job.

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

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Post by AdamTReineke »

ebspelman wrote: post #41
voisin wrote: post #14

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I wonder if there is a good answer for quick mapping using an iPhone’s LiDAR Scanner?

I work on an app called Polycam, and we have an automated Room / floorplan capture mode. We actually announced some updates to it earlier this week: https://twitter.com/Polycam3D/status/1623730477637959680

Love Polycam! My wife just got the newest iPhone this fall before our remodel started and I was stoked to capture our house before the remodel and cannot wait to get the after all scanned in for comparison. https://poly.cam/capture/11B48FCD-E6A5-4ED7-9C9D-BF5DFE60579...

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

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Post by michaelcampbell »

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…

Ugh, thanks. I was hoping it'd be more parametric based, like Fusion 360, but alas seems not.

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

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Post by myself248 »

The term "interior design" should, but does not, encompass what I'm trying to do. I'm trying to do an ergonomic study of some workbench and shelf layouts, with instruments and displays and tools located on a shelf above the bench.

I'm tall, and when I lay out the shelves so they fit me, shorter people can't reach the knobs on the instruments. But if I just move everything down, I feel like I'm wasting space. And I don't want to just chain a short person to the chair for several hours while I build and rebuild shelves.

I feel like there should be ergonomic models for reach and view, for like the 5% and 95%ile of human sizes, but I can't figure out what this is even called.

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

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Post by xupybd »

xupybd wrote: post #66
dddddaviddddd wrote: post #16

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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

Wow didn't expect down votes on that response.

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

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Post by romwell »

AdamTReineke wrote: post #81
romwell wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>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.

I never figured out how to relate primitives to each other in OpenSCAD so my models were an endless soup of absolute position math. I used SolveSpace for a while and it was brilliant because what took hours in OpenSCAD took just a fraction of the time. And then I picked up the Maker license for Solidworks ($100/yr) and haven't looked back. I rendered my whole house in Solidworks to plan for a remodel and it was extre…

I'm going to try SolveSpace, but I'll look into that Maker license. Didn't know of that, and I can absolutely afford a grande-latte/month for a tool like that.

The nice thing about FOSS though is that it's worry free. I can keep OpenSCAD and Cura, and my projects will build years later without me having to think about it.

The stuff I built with 3DS Max educational license, though, is not accessible. So I am hesitant to jump ship for Solidworks (even though it's the industry standard).

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

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Post by jlv2 »

dddddaviddddd wrote: post #16
wyldfire wrote: post #10

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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 kept the installer for the last free version of SketchUp around for exactly this reason.

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

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Post by bitcoinmoney »

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…

I come to HN for comments like this.

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

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Post by userbinator »

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 figured there must be some professional software for this, but if so, I don't know what it is.

There's a whole category of such software, it's called CAD. The professional products are notoriously expensive.

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