>Yes, I think you missed or forgot the first part of the user's
>guide at http://www.sweethome3d.eu/userGuide.html#importingHomeBlueprint
>and the first part of the video tutorial at http://www.sweethome3d.eu/documentation.html#videoTutorial :
>importing the blue print of your home to draw ...

>In Sweet Home 3D, no item is connected to an other one, except
>for a set of walls created together.

There's no way to add to a wall after it's created? That's
probably why my walls keep coming apart when I try to modify
them.

>That behavior simplifies the management of modified and ...

The basic problem I keep running into is that I rarely do
everything exactly right the first time. But, when I try to
move a wall or change a wall length, everything falls down:
dimension lines get disconnected from their features, corners
are no longer right angles, walls come disconnected at ...

I just installed 1.7 on Linux, and am failing pretty miserably
at trying to create a floorplan based on measurements I've
taken. I've done this many times before with other floorplan
packages, but apparently there's something fundamentally
different about the paradigm used by sweethome3d that ...