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Posted by Puybaret at Sep 15, 2010, 9:05:50 AM
Re: Is this a bug?
Do you use that method because it is less resource hungry, than using a vector plan view of the object, in the plan view?
I never planed to display a vector view of the object (it would be probably much more resource hungry as you say than displaying a scaled image). Screen capture is the only method that works most of the time for everyone, even for computers that don't support 3D offscreen imaging.

Was the "Catalog items" the original method before you created the "Top view"?
Yes, and it will probably remain the default setting for a while, because creating the top view requires 3D offscreen imaging, and some configurations can't even test if they support this feature without a crash (see the FAQ Sweet Home 3D crashes when I want to edit preferences, print, create a photo or create a video. What can I do?). This may change in the future though, because Sweet Home 3D plan is now able to display also some "precomputed" top view images, which would allow everyone to display the top view of the existing models (but the problem would remain unchanged for people who want to import furniture).
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Emmanuel Puybaret, Sweet Home 3D creator