Hi and thanks a LOT for this great piece of software! [=D>] I appreciate very much what you are doing for everyone's benefit (and mine). [:)]

After working with it for a while (current V2.3b21), I found the following things would be useful in future releases (V2.3final+):

- Export to .OBJ without a floor: I have seen others request this, and its most obvious benefit would be easier designing of multi-level buildings (One thing I did was designing a slanted roof standing upright, with windows and all; and then rotating it into its proper position on re-import).
Yes, I have read the workaround solutions offered, but they are all a bit difficult or complicated in some way (I used Blender to remove the unwanted floor level from my exported .OBJ files - it took me half a day to figure out how to work that program properly) - the text editor trick for instance did not work with the original object, but parts of it had to be created freshly to clear out accumulated code.
My point being: You are doing a great job helping users out in this forum, but wouldn't it be easier and less time-consuming to fix this in the program once and for all, so people stop bugging you about it? [;)] Pleeeease? [:D] Other users have pointed out that SH3D's most important feature is its ease of use, and I couldn't agree more - so it would make sense to me to do without the assistance of other programs - to make it a "one app for all your designing needs" program.

- measurements ("create dimensions") are not "objects" on their own right, they have a serving function. As such, it would be great to have them permantently attached to the edge they measure. As a result, when changing the measured wall or object, the "dimension" would auto-adapt and abolish the need of re-doing them manually every time you change and object's position or size.

- You can split walls, but so far, not join them. This might sometimes be useful when trying to fix texture problems.

- Objects often move while selecting them with the mouse pointer if the pointer moves even the slightest bit. I often find my objects moved unintentionally because it is very difficult to keep the mouse perfectly still when selecting an object, wall or room. Most of the time, I just need the context menu, but I cannot use that before I have selected the object in question. Maybe you could make the right-click select the object under the mouse pointer before opening the context menu, so that there is a safe way of selecting objects without moving them? This leads me to...

- Locking of objects in the base plan: It was a good idea to implement the locking of walls and rooms. Could you please extend this feature to furniture? Once I have placed a shower or a toilet, it is likely that I want it to stay just there. You could add a "moveable" check box in individual furniture properties (just like in the "import furniture" dialog).

- Snapping, snapping, snapping ("Magnetism"): I agree with others that expanding this feature would be very useful. My suggestions:
- snap objects into wall corners
- snap objects to other objects
(e.g., for lining up kitchen furniture without overlaps)
- snap the the active end of a wall that is just being drawn to the middle of other walls
- snap the corners of a room being drawn to the door openings, just the same way as the automatic room generating (on double-click) works. When drawing rooms manually, it is very difficult to get the door openings properly textured without having the room overlap with a neighbouring room (which often leads to floor texturing problems for me).
Also, I find it rather difficult to use the snapping of room corners, as it seems to cover a very small range of only 2 or 3 pixels. The sensitivity of the snapping could be made a user-determined parameter (for those with high mouse speeds like me [:p]) in the "Preferences" window, between 1 and 20 pixels or so. As is, I have to hold my breath to hit the mark most of the time. [;)]

- texture display in the 3D view: I was so enthusiastic about SH3D that I mapped all my surfaces with rather intricate hi-def textures. I soon found out that the program is bound to crash sooner or later if you put wallpaper and tiles everywhere [;)] So I carefully reduced texture resolutions and positions so that I can work safely now, but my poor old single-core CPU [@2500] is still sweating heavily under the load it needs to render in the 3D view, giving me a framerate of ca. one frame every 3-5 seconds. [:(]
I would love to see a checkbox in the global preferences that allows to toggle "render textures in 3D view". I can easily live without the splendour of textures in the preview - I just want them in the hi-quality "photograph" render where they belong. Every textured surface could just display the average colour of its texture (needs to be determined once when loading the texture and is then a resource-saving 3-byte value [;)] )

- Oh yes, and of course I, too, would love to see multi-level capability in the future! Most houses just don't have only one floor [;)]

In case any of these issues should be system-related, I am using WinXP SP2.
I hope I didn't bug you too much [:D], so thanks again for SH3D! [:)]