I decided to upgrade to the Apple Store version of the app and support the developer. I had already been using the app and have a few floor plans done. When I had imported some furniture that I converted from Sketch Up models, I forgot to add them to the catalog. They are all in my floor plans and I can copy and paste them to new files, but I can't figure out how to get them to show up in the catalog. Is there any way to do this?
France
Joined: Nov 7, 2005
Post Count: 9420
Status:
Offline
Re: Imported furniture question
Any application proposed in the Mac App Store must be "sandboxed" as required by Apple. This implies that such an application is able to read only the content of files that the user explicitly selected with a file dialog box, and can't read other files. In the case of Sweet Home 3D, this implies that if a DAE file references texture images, the import furniture wizard will be able to read the DAE file selected by the user, but not its image files. To avoid a complicated solution where the user would have to select each referenced image with a file dialog (including managing the case where these images are actually missing), I decided to support only ZIP and KMZ files import, in the Mac App Store version. I understand that if you use often Sketchup or an other modeler to generate DAE file, it will burden your export / import workflow, but as suggested in the FAQHow can I import 3D models at OBJ, DAE or 3DS format with the Mac App Store version of Sweet Home 3D?, keep in mind that the Finder proposes the File > Compress menu item and even a Compress contextual menu, that should speed up the zip generation process. Unfortunately, this issue is the same for OBJ and 3DS files, with the MTL file and texture images they might reference.
If you have some ideas to improve this behavior with a way of using it clear for everyone, don't hesitate to make suggestions here.
Thanks for you support. It's greatly appreciated
----------------------------------------
Emmanuel Puybaret, Sweet Home 3D creator
Thanks for the explanation. Is there anyway to import them from within the application itself? I have several objects in current floorplans. Since I forgot when I imported them to add them to the catalog, they don't show up there, just the drawings.
