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Posted by Keet at Sep 2, 2023, 8:42:43 AM
Re: kitchen furniture
In theory you could create (in an external program) a cabinet with multiple handles all using different materials, and set all but one of them to invisible. Then the user could have a choice of handle. Note that this would balloon the file size though. I don't know for sure if this would actually be possible.
This is actually one of the items I have on my wish list: Allowing a selection list for a material where you assign one as the default or have it initially be invisible. So currently that is not possible.
Your tip to to replace the handle with a different one is a good one though, which I often used myself until I started to create all my furniture from scratch. This is possible because invisible parts are not exported by Sweet Home 3D.
1. Make the handle invisible and export the cabinet.
2. Use the same method to to get a handle from another cabinet: make everything invisible except the handle and export. (Or download a handle from a 3D models site.)
3. Import the cabinet without handle and the handle.
4. Combine the two objects and export them.
5. After import you have the new cabinet with the replaced handle.
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