Documentation
This page describes documentations currently available for Sweet Home 3D.
User’s guides
Sweet Home 3D user’s guide is available at this page, and the list of its shortcuts in this document (PDF).
Sweet Home 3D provides also a regularly updated FAQ and a full help accessible from its Help > Sweet Home 3D Help menu item.
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 with Sweet Home 3D 3.3 or previous versions (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
- Guide for SVG Path cut-outs and other furniture properties (PDF) by OKH
- Some tips in Sweet Home 3D blog
Video tutorials
View the following video tutorials to learn how to use the basic features of Sweet Home 3D on computer and mobile.
Draw plants and levels
Insert and Customize Furniture
Photo and Video Rendering
3D View
Sweet Home 3D Mobile
Visit also Sweet Home 3D YouTube channel for more tutorials and read the article in the blog about the best video tutorials.
Developer’s guides
If you want to program a plug-in for Sweet Home 3D, read first the plug-in developer’s guide.
If you look for information about the architecture of Sweet Home 3D, you may read:
- its API generated with javadoc, available on-line or for download,
- the last part of the plug-in developer’s guide that gives some details about the classes of Sweet Home 3D model,
- the French book Les cahiers du programmeur Swing, written by Emmanuel Puybaret and published by Editions Eyrolles in December 2006, the Sweet Home 3D version 0.10 is the study case of.
If you want to translate Sweet Home 3D into your language, read the translation guide.
Reviews and awards
Some reviews on the web:
- You Can Easily Become an Interior Designer! and Sweet Home 3D for Mac Review on Softpedia
- Sweet Home 3D: simple interior design on linux.com
- Sweet Home 3D Review on Bright hub
- Of Software and Soffits on The Blog of Helios
- It’s Better than Moving Furniture on Becoming Home
- The rise of an amateur architect on Ragnvald Larsen blog
- Free Interior Design With Sweet Home 3D and SketchUp on Svedic blog
- My 3D Junk Fair a blog where Leonhard Grugl shares his findings of Sweet Home 3D
- 5 Best Free 3D Floor Plan Software For Windows on List of freeware
- Users reviews on SourceForge.net
Reviews in the press:
- Projects on the move, in issue #95 of Linux Pro Magazine (October 2008)
