Per further research per Emmanuel:

> If you're able to run Sweet Home 3D from code source, simply change implementation of getBackgroundColor and getForegroundColor in PlanComponent class. Otherwise, this might be difficult.

ref: https://www.sweethome3d.com/support/forum/viewthread_thread,12273 ...

Indeed! I was wondering about this as well.

I guess you can create a ticket for each patch at https://sourceforge.net/p/sweethome3d/bugs/

You can make patches and then submit them on the forum or directly to sourceforge

Just want to say that I'm interested in IFC support in SH3D aswell.

@dorin can you provide a screenshot of what the end result of modifying the look-and-feel of SH3D looks like ?

This feature has been open since 2012:
https://sourceforge.net/p/sweethome3d/feature-requests/484/
and duplicated some more since:
https://sourceforge.net/p/sweethome3d/feature-requests/676/
https://sourceforge.net/p/sweethome3d/feature-requests/806/

Any possibility that it's on the near future ...

@Puybaret fair enough though I do have some responses if you'd be interested to hear?

For your information, contributors to Sweet Home 3D are mainly translators, 3D model designers and people helping other users in this forum or with documents they share. These people are rarely aware of how a ...

You can change the look and feel of Sweet Home 3D by setting [font=courier new]-Dswing.defaultlaf[/font] Java option followed by the LAF class. Of course, if some additional classes are required to run it, you'll have to modify the classpath.

Can you please demonstrate how to do this? Thanks!

@Puybaret
I'm not advocating for you to leave SF and change from SVN to git.
Tt's really about accessibility. Essentially I'm for being open to explore having a presence on Github or Gitlab and being receptive to code contributions from those places.

I've been lurking on FOSS projects for several ...