Print at Dec 20, 2025, 9:56:07 AM

Posted by Keet at Feb 14, 2025, 4:53:18 PM
Re: Copy saved view
There is no easy way to do this. The difficult way is a hack:

Make a backup of both .sh3d files before you try this!
Close Sweet Home 3D before you start this.
Use a plain text editor to edit files, i.e. an editor that saves a plain text file.

Open the sh3d file with the saved view in a archive manager (a sh3d file is just a zip file).
You should see a list with the files in the archive. Select and open the file "Home.xml" in a plain text editor. Somewhere in the first 50 lines or so you will see a line that starts with "<camera attribute='storedCamera' id=...", That is your stored view. You can see that this line is below a line that starts with "<camera attribute='topCamera'...". Remember that.
(If you have multiple stored views there will be multiple lines with "storedCamera", one line for each stored view.)

Now open the second sh3d file with the missing view. Find the line that starts with "<camera attribute='topCamera'...".
Copy the complete line with "storedCamera" from the first file and paste it below the line with "topCamera" in the second file.

Save and close the file. Most archive managers will ask to update the file in the archive, do so. Close the sh3d archive.

Close the first file without saving, you changed nothing. Close the first sh3d archive.

If you open the second file in Sweet Home 3D you should now have a stored point of view.
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