Dec 18, 2025, 12:24:36 AM
|
Sweet Home 3D Forum » List all forums » » Forum: Features use and tips » » » Thread: Several problem with using Sweet Home 3D » » » » Post: Several problem with using Sweet Home 3D |
Print at Dec 18, 2025, 12:24:36 AM |
| Posted by George59 at Mar 15, 2016, 2:04:48 PM |
|
Several problem with using Sweet Home 3D Hi Guys, I installed the software yesterday and I decided to learn it today but I am having some real frustrating problems that I hope I can eliminate soon. I have admit that I've used Google Sketchup many times in the past, so I do have a basic idea of what a 3D drawing should be able to do, and it is quite possible that this background is the cause of my problem and it would make it easier for me if I wouldn't know how to use Sketchup. Well, here is the list of my problems in the sequence of frustration, being the most frustrating ones on the top: 1. Zooming in and out: I draw something then I do a zoom in 2-3 times, the object disappear from the screen. I zoom out the same amount of times, the object is gone. I have to zoom out 4-6 times to find it again way off the center of the screen, I drag it to the center in the fond hope that it will stay there but nope, I zoom in 2-3 times and it disappears again. Sometimes I can manage the object to stay in the center by pure accident but so far I am in the total dark what is the logic behind the currently experienced behavior during zooming in and out. 2. Still zooming: First time I tried to zoom in with the mouse wheel, instead of zooming, it was scrolling the sheet up or down. What was the point in making the mouse wheel to scroll vertically instead of zooming? When I draw, I zoom in and out all the time to see the result of my last steps and to do it by clicking on the zoom + and - buttons zillion times is a major frustration for me especially if it is combined with the No. 1 problem described above. The sliding bars on the bottom and the right side of the drawing board can be used so easily to get around the drawing board up or down, left or right, could the zooming function be switched to the mouse wheel? Please??? 3. Snap to object or guide or grid: wonderful features in Sketchup that makes drawing anything just a "snap" literally speaking - missing in action. 4. When I draw a wall, or let's say a room with 4 walls, by the time I finished the room, the size of the room is unusable because the center line of the wall is used for measuring distance, because of that the length and the width of the room will be shorter with half of the wall width. 5. Now I added dimensions to the walls so that I could drag them to correct the size of the room, but to my surprise when I drag any side of the room it doesn't have any tendency to maintain the horizontal orientation of the horizontal walls but instead depending on how "shaky" my hand with the mouse, it skews the regular square into a rhomboid either upward or downward. So, I gave up on wanting to resize the room. So, my question is that what is the simplest way of drawing a room with the expected inner dimensions and a given width of walls and later if you change the width of any of the walls, it will increase the width outward instead of evenly outward and inward and messing up the room dimensions? 6. When I make any of the wall or item in focus or active, the contour lines of the wall or object becomes so wide, that it makes it impossible to place it precisely next to any other line or object. 7. The Magnetism is enabled in the preferences but as far as I can tell, it isn't noticeable, no matter how close I move any object or line to another object or line the snap just doesn't happen. Basically I just realized that what I'm wishing for is a merger between Sketchup and Sweet Home 3D, where the floor plan could be easily created in Sketchup but adding furniture, doors and windows would be done in Sweet Home 3D. So, can someone tell me whether you can import 3D drawing into SW3D somehow? That's it. There were other issues that I had problem with but these are the major ones. :) |
|
|
Current timezone is GMT Dec 18, 2025, 12:24:36 AM |