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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 davidascher »

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…

So few people use Metapost, it's undervalued! Feature request: add the output to the github repo so we can see the result?

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Post by bennysonething »

pasquinelli wrote: post #67

sweet home is also an famicom game.

I came here to say the same thing. It's sort of survival horror by capcom, so same lineage as resident evil in a way. Only seven years before it, the jump in technology is mind boggling to me.

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Post by ixs »

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‘ve been working with sweet home 3d a bit but then gave up on it after running into rendering issues.

Found https://pcon-planner.com/en/?privat=530&page=126 instead which is windows only and bon-open source but effectively free.

Pretty impressive stuff. Been very happy so far.

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Post by ixs »

edwcross wrote: post #101
CSDude wrote: post #100

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 i…

Unfortunately pCon.planner is Windows-only. I wonder if the file format is standard and compatible with other software?

I think they store data in DXF. Should be pretty standard thus.

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Post by epilys »

amatecha wrote: post #93

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...

Go to online markets of furniture models which have online preview (necessary)

If you then look at the request that loads up the preview, the dae/obj file is usually there.

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Post by namibj »

judge2020 wrote: post #98
emilburzo wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Those scanners are IIUC typically line scanners, though.

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Post by ebspelman »

shaunkoh wrote: post #105
ebspelman wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I love the app! The interior designer and property agent who saw me using it were pretty blown away. One thing I struggle with though is making sure that the capture is robust enough before I move on. I usually only really know that something is off when the capture is done already. Can I “touch up” an existing capture by doing another local scan of a problematic area?

You can - there's an 'Extend' button for LiDAR captures, but it can be a little touch-and-go sometimes. Definitely an area for us to work on more!

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Post by alanbernstein »

userbinator wrote: post #90
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.

I'm quite familiar with CAD for the purpose of designing things from scratch. What I want to do is, essentially, create blueprints for an old, poorly designed and built house. The tools I have tried for this are not really well-suited to this task.
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