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| Posted by George59 at Mar 19, 2016, 3:11:58 PM |
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Re: Several problem with using Sweet Home 3D Puybaret, thanks for pointing out the tips page for me, I should have read it and watch other training videos before start asking questions. I'm not at the stage of adding windows and doors, I'm still at the stage of learning the basics because I don't want to realize few weeks down the road that I have to redo everything from the getgo because I didn't create the floor plan the way that I should have for my purposes. For example, you can create floor plans using background image, I do have one but the lines on the scanned image are not sharp but fuzzy, so I hesitate to use that because of that. Or you can create a room from individual walls, or directly using the room creator tool. Which one should I use not to waste any time later because of my uninformed decision? I just tried to create a simple room (1 m x 1 m) with the room tool, then I modified the thickness of two walls (30,30,10,10) and according to the software the size of the area is still 1 m2 when in fact it isn't because the walls got thicker both toward the outside and inside and that reduced the actual size of the room, so if I went ahead and continue design a complete room with furnitures, I would end up with a mess because the plan would not match the real life scenario. So, how do you design a room with 1m long walls on all four sides, one of them is 30cm wide, the other one is 40cm, and the other two are 10cm wide each and at the end the inner size of the room is 1m x 1m and the auto display of the area shows 1m2? The selection color should come from the matching setting in your system. What system do you use?" I'm not sure what you mean on "system". But in general, I have a Dell Latitude D830 15" laptop, NVidia Quadro NVS 135M graphics chipset (designed and optimized for AutoCAD and other 3D drawing applications) with Windows XP sp3 OS on it. So, going back to the subject of zooming, panning, selecting, moving, according to the tips, when you zoom in with CTRL key, the focus of zooming supposed to be the position of the mouse pointer, according to my experience, it isn't. Indeed, using the Ctrl key makes zooming much more effective than using the + and - magnifier icons on the tool bar, but it does not follow the mouse pointer precisely. Maybe it does by looking at a certain radius around the mouse pointer and it corrects itself if it falls out of that circle, I don't know. So, let me add an item to the wishlist for future releases: It would be nice to have a option in the preferences to change the function of the mouse scroll wheel: up/down scroll vs. zooming. I do like the space bar + mouse click&hold way of dragging. Shift+ or Ctrl+ could have also be used since they don't have any function in the same situation, but it is there. For zooming with keyboard instead of Ctrl-k I'd recommend the widely known Ctrl-+ or Ctrl-- as it is used in Internet browsers like Firefox. New folks, (new to SH3D) will have a faster learning curve if standard shortcuts used when and wherever it is possible. By the way, may I ask what is your preferred OS, MAC or Windows? George59 |
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