Sweet Home 3D Help > Importing background and furniture

|  |  | Importing background image

To import an image displayed in background of the home plan and speed up the drawing of walls, choose Plan > Import background image.... This menu displays a wizard that helps you to choose and scale an image file in a few steps.

1. | Drag and drop the file of an image in the frame shown in the wizard, or click on Choose image and choose a BMP, JPEG, GIF or PNG file.
2. | Once the image is loaded, click on Continue.
3. | Define the scale of the image by moving the end points of the colored line drawn in the image, in such a way that this line matches a known length. Then type the real length of this line in the Length of the drawn line field taking care of the current unit, and click on Continue.
4. | Define the origin of the image in the plan, i.e. the point in the image matching the point (0, 0) in the home plan. Then click on Finish.

Once the background image wizard is closed, your image will appear behind the home plan grid, and you can start drawing the walls of your home.
Before drawing the walls | After drawing home walls and placing home doors and windows

• | To define precisely the scale of the background image, enlarge the background image wizard pane.
• | Avoid importing a too large file.
• | When you import a scanned image of your home plan, ensure the image is correctly rotated. A rotation of only one degre make you lose the alignment between image borders and some walls.
• | Each level in a home can have its own background image.
• | The unit displayed by default in background image wizard depends on your country. You may switch to Centimeter, Meter, Millimeter or Inch in the preferences pane.