Hello,
The first public beta version of Sweet Home 3D 3.5 is out and can be tested with Java Web Start link.
At this moment, it contains mainly the following alignment / magnetism / anti-colision features:
- new Furniture > Align side by side menu item to align selected furniture on the sides and on the back side of the first selected piece,
- new Furniture > Align on front side / Align on back side / Align on left side / Align on right side menu items to align selected furniture on the front / back / left / right side of the first selected piece,
- new Furniture > Distribute horizontally / Distribute vertically menu items to distribute selected furniture accordingly,
- new magnetism behavior during the drag and drop of a piece in the plan when its borders approach the borders of an other piece of furniture,
- improved magnetism of furniture along walls with anti collision system (including round walls).
This new version centers also zoom on the mouse cursor when zoom is done with mouse wheel while Ctrl key is pressed (Cmd under Mac OS X).
I made also the ground color vary according to light power setting. To ensure a better rendering at default settings, the ground color of home files made with previous versions will be automatically updated. This might lead to some small changes in rendering, according to the light power you set in 3D view modification pane.
Hope you'll like this new version, and you'll feel that placing furniture will be much easier now.
[Note from developer: Sweet Home 3D 3.5 was released on April 28, 2012]
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Emmanuel Puybaret, Sweet Home 3D creator
