SweetHome3D – architectural design software application

Last Updated on January 25, 2025

Sweet Home 3D is a free interior design application that helps you place your furniture on a house 2D plan, with a 3D preview.

Sweet Home 3D can also be used for other uses, such as planning a garden.

This program is aimed at people who want to design their interior quickly, whether they are moving or they just want to redesign their existing home. Numerous visual guides help you draw the plan of your home and layout furniture. You may draw the walls of your rooms upon the image of an existing plan, and then, drag and drop furniture onto the plan from a catalog organized by categories. Each change in the 2D plan is simultaneously updated in the 3D view, to show you a realistic rendering of your layout.

Features include:

• Draw straight, round or sloping walls with precise dimensions using the mouse or the keyboard.
• Insert doors and windows in walls by dragging them in the plan, and let Sweet Home 3D compute their holes in walls.
• Add furniture to the plan from a searchable and extensible catalog organized by categories such as kitchen, living room, bedroom, bathroom…
• Change color, texture, size, thickness, location and orientation of furniture, walls, floors and ceilings.
• While designing the home in 2D, simultaneously view it in 3D from an aerial point of view, or navigate into it from a virtual visitor point of view.
• Annotate the plan with room areas, dimension lines, texts, arrows and show the North direction with a compass rose.
• Create photorealistic images and videos with the ability to customize lights and control sunlight effect according to the time of day and geographic location.
• Import home blueprint to draw walls upon it, 3D models to complete default catalog, and textures to customize surfaces.
• Print and export PDFs, bitmap or vector graphics images, videos and 3D files in standard file formats.
• Extend the software with Java-based plugins.
• Internationalization support – it’s available in 27 languages.
• Cross-platform support – runs under Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows.

Website: www.sweethome3d.com
Support: User’s Guide, FAQ, Forum
Developer: eTeks
License: GNU General Public License

Sweet Home 3D is written in Java. Learn Java with our recommended free books and free tutorials.

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