Sweet Home 3D Help > Editing preferences, plan and 3D view

|  |  | Editing compass and geographic location

Every new home displays a compass rose at the top left of its plan. As other objects in the plan, it may be moved with a drag and drop operation or the keyboard arrows after selecting it. When the compass rose is the only object selected in the plan, you may resize it or change the direction of the North with its indicators.

1. | The size indicator shows the point you can drag to resize the compass rose diameter.
2. | The North direction indicator shows the point you can drag to rotate the compass rose.

When the mouse pointer is upon one of these indicators, it changes to indicate you can drag and drop that point. The compass rose and the geographic location of your home may also be edited thanks to their pane, displayed wtih a double-click on the compass rose in the home plan, or by choosing Plan > Modify compass... out of the menu. In the compass pane, you may change the location, the diameter, the North direction of the compass rose and set whether it should be displayed in the plan or not. You may also choose the lattitude and the longitude of the geographic location of the home and the time zone of its region.

• | The geographic location attributes are used in the photo and video creation panes to compute the location of the sun in the sky.
• | The Lattitude and Longitude fields values use decimals of the degree unit and not minutes and seconds. The prefix of the lattitude must be N for North and S for South, and the prefix of the longitude must be W for West and E for East.
• | The time zone, lattitude and longitude are intialized from comparable settings in your Operating System. You should check these values if you want Sweet Home 3D to compute the exact location of the sun in the sky.
• | Compass feature is available from version 3.0. Homes created with a previous version won't display their compass rose until you choose Plan > Modify compass... menu item and check the Visible in plan check box in the compass pane.