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…
Floorplanner is pretty good imo but it’s an alternative with roughly the same features and functionality
Is there a place to find good 3d models to use in this software? I want to plan out a "computer lab" room in my home, so of course I wanted to map out where computers would go, which desks, at which heights, etc.. ... but I found that the models available on the software's site are relatively few...
Is there a place to find good 3d models to use in this software? I want to plan out a "computer lab" room in my home, so of course I wanted to map out where computers would go, which desks, at which heights, etc.. ... but I found that the models available on the software's site are relatively few...
It does allow you to import 3ds/OBJ files. So that might be able to help some.
I've been using Sweet Home 3d for a bit now and it has grown on me. When I first started it wasn't very intuitive at all, but after a bit it got better. Currently, I just use it to do floor planning and get a rough idea, and then I use Fusion 360 to actually layout the technical parts of the project.
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.
isn't that all of the more reason to use a high-resolution 3d LIDAR point cloud - to get the exactly geometry? I hear your point about moving furniture, but you kind of need to do that anyway to get a measuring tape into corners.
Laser measuring tools avoid the need for a physical tape these days.
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 was one of the unexpected extra benefits of having a robot vacuum with LIDAR, free accurate floorplan after one sweep.
Obviously you just get an image, but for what I needed (map in home assistant with sensors overlaid) it was enough.
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 was one of the unexpected extra benefits of having a robot vacuum with LIDAR, free accurate floorplan after one sweep. Obviously you just get an image, but for what I needed (map in home assistant with sensors overlaid) it was enough.
The vacuum navigates and route plans based on the geometry, though, so chances are the actual map is on the device. Robot vacuums are competitive and plentiful enough to where there has to be one with a way to download the map from some endpoint on the device, or at least a way to pop it open and pull out some SD card. Of course, it’d probably be in a proprietary format, so transforming it into a usable mesh might be tougher than getting the data.
Not same, a bit harder but this is also free: https://pcon-planner.com/ and also has catalogs for actual furniture firms with actual items (where you need to register but most approve)
I've learnt this because the furniture firm designed a wardrobe for us with wrong dimensions and the designer lady was surprised that I showed them why they made wrong - they put the dimensions for outside of the wall, without taking in the account for wall thickness.