Sweet Home 3D Help

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Each Sweet Home 3D window edits the interior design of a home and is divided in four resizable panes, described as following.

1. | The furniture catalog. This catalog is organized by categories and contains all the furniture and objects you may add to your home design. You may display the furniture of a category by clicking on the triangle beside its name or by double-clicking on the category itself.
2. | The home furniture list. This list contains the furniture of your home, where their name, size and other characteristics may be displayed. It may be sorted by clicking on each column title or with the Furniture > Sort by menu, and the set of displayed columns may be changed with the Furniture > Display column menu.
3. | The home plan. This pane displays your home as seen from top. It is the place where you draw the walls and the rooms of your home and where you layout your furniture with the mouse or the keyboard arrows. When a home has more than one level, the name of each level is displayed in tabs at the top of the plan.
4. | The home 3D view. This pane displays your home in 3 dimensions. You may see your home in this pane either from the top, or from a virtual visitor point of view.

Each of these panes may have the focus, and some operations proposed by Sweet Home 3D menus depend on the focused pane, recognizable by the colored rectangle that surrounds it. To transfer focus to another pane, use tab and shift + tab keys, or click in the pane that should gain focus. The tools bar on the top of these four panes may be moved out the window or placed on one of the three other borders of the window by dragging and dropping it with the mouse. The 3D view can be detached from its window by choosing 3D view > Display in separate window menu item. User preferences and other menu items let you customize a Sweet Home 3D window in many ways. As the following image of the same home shows, the language and the unit used in Sweet Home 3D may be changed, the furniture catalog may be displayed as a searchable list, the columns in the furniture list may be modified, objects in the plan may be viewed in a different way, the navigation arrows in the 3D view may be hidden...