Sweet Home 3D Help > Creating homes, walls and furniture

|  |  | Adding doors, windows and furniture

To add doors, windows or furniture to your home, drag and drop them one by one from the catalog to the home plan or furniture list. You may also select one or more pieces in the catalog, then choose Furniture > Add to home or click on the Add to home tool. Add to home tool When pieces are dropped in furniture list or added with the Furniture > Add to home menu item, the location of their top left corner is at the point (0, 0). When a piece is dropped in the plan, its location and orientation depends on the location of the walls close to the piece. If the dropped piece is a door or a window, it will be automatically rotated and resized according to the orientation and the thickness of the wall it intersects. Other kinds of pieces will be rotated to make their back face lie along the closest wall it could intersect. The pieces added to home are selected and drawn simultaneously in furniture list, in the plan and in the 3D view. During the loading time of the 3D model of added pieces, these pieces are represented as a white box in the 3D view.

• | If the catalog doesn't contain the piece of furniture you want to add to your home, choose the Box piece in the Miscellaneous category and resize it, or import it from an other furniture library.
• | A piece of furniture qualified as a door or a window is able to automatically make holes in walls at the intersection with this kind of furniture. Similarly, a staircase is able to make a hole in the ceiling and the floor of upper levels. This computation isn't made for the other kinds of furniture.
• | If a piece of furniture is dropped on an other one, it will be elevated to appear on the top of the latter, when its selection rectangle is included in the one of the latter and its default elevation is equal to zero (i.e. at floor level). If the border of the dropped piece intersects the border of an other piece, the dropped piece will be oriented with the same angle and positioned along the border of that piece.
• | The angle, the depth and the elevation of the piece added with the mouse are automatically computed only if magnetism is enabled in preferences panel.
• | Once a piece is added to home, you may change its name, its angle, its location, its size, its color and its texture. You may also group it with other pieces of furniture by selecting them and choosing the Furniture > Group menu item. If you want to add a piece to an existing group of furniture, select the target group and choose Furniture > Add to group menu item.
• | Choose Plan > Zoom in or Plan > Zoom out to change the plan scale, or roll the mouse wheel forward or backward while keeping the ctrl key pressed (or under Mac OS X, the cmd key pressed).
• | Select tool is automatically selected once you added a piece of furniture to home.