Sweet Home 3D (SH3D) : Free Interior Architecture/Modeling Software

Sweet Home 3D is an interior design Java application for quickly choosing and placing furniture on a house 2D plan drawn by the end-user, with a 3D preview.

Sweet Home 3D helps you to design your interior quickly and easily: draw the walls of your home upon the image of an existing plan, change the color or the texture of each room, and drag and drop furniture onto the plan from a catalog organized by categories (windows, doors, living room, kitchen), in which you can import 3D models created by yourself or downloaded from various Web sites.

All the changes made in the 2D plan are simultaneously reflected in a 3D view, and you can navigate in it either from an aerial view point, or from a virtual visitor view point. Finally, you can improve your home plan by adding dimensions and texts to it, print it along with the 3D view, create a photorealistic image of the 3D view with customized lights, create a movie from a virtual path in the 3D view and export the plan to SVG format or the 3D view to OBJ format to import them in other 2D or 3D software.

Sweet Home 3D allows your imagination to run wild without you having to lift a finger or costing you a cent. Apart from being a very useful interior design application, it’s also a hell of a lot of fun, allowing you to mix and match furniture with ease, take virtual walks around your creations, and indulge yourself in designs you’d probably never be able to do in real life.

Sweet Home 3D offers many different pieces of furniture, ranging from beds to lamps and desks tables, but you can import even more from the developer’s website. To create your rooms, all you need to do is drag and drop elements into the grid view and you’ll see them building up 3D in the viewing screen below. Once you’ve done this, use the virtual visit tool to get a 3D preview of what it looks like and talk a walk around.

Sweet Home 3D is an excellent solution for all those that daydream about redesigning their home, or even for professionals that need a basic mock-up.

[ Some reviews on the web ]

1. You Can Easily Become an Interior Designer! on Softpedia
2. Sweet Home 3D: simple interior design on linux.com
3. Sweet Home 3D - Free Architecture/Modeling Software on Associated Content
4. Design your ideal home on your PC on softonic
5. Sweet Home 3D Review on Bright hub
6. A nice virtual reality software for home / office structural planning on Gupshup
7. Plan and design your home using Sweet Home 3D on MyHome.ie
8. It’s Better than Moving Furniture on Becoming Home
9. Sweet Home, Art of Illusion, and Moving Furniture on Jesse Dyer’s blog
10. Amateur Architecture on Assay the Essay
11. Sweet Home 3D on NZmac.com
12. Room To Grow: Sweet Home 3D on SEGA Tech
13. Re-design your living room with Sweet Home 3D – no chiropractor required! on Free Download A Day
14. A Virtual Visit – Nothing Like Reality on Unsure Exposure
15. Redesign Your Home For Free on George’s Software Engineering Log

[ Supported Languages ]

Sweet Home 3D is available in English, Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Chinese (Simplified), Czech, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Swedish and Vietnamese languages.

[ Supported OS ]

Sweet Home 3D may run under Windows, Mac OS X 10.4 or later, Linux and Solaris.

[ Related Links ]

• Use Sweet Home 3D Online
• Sweet Home 3D User’s Guide
• Sweet Home 3D Video Tutorials (YouTube)
• Sweet Home 3D Example Gallerys
• Sweet Home 3D 3D Models
• Sweet Home 3D Other Downloads
• Sweet Home 3D Official Forum
• Sweet Home 3D Official Blog
• Sweet Home 3D Frequently Asked Questions

You may also read the following guides written by contributors:

• How to create personalized textures for Sweet Home 3D (PDF) by Ouais, translated by Hans Dirkse
• How to create a multi-level house in Sweet Home 3D (PDF) by Hans Dirkse
• Tutorial for Plug-ins and Extensions (PDF) by Hans Dirkse
• Tutorial for sloping ceilings, roofs, dormers and more (PDF) by Hans Dirkse

[ Official Download ]