Just to recap, the program works fine, but only if I remove the AMD drivers. All in all a nice program, exactly what I need, but WAAAAY to much finicky hassle.

What I've been loving about Ubuntu this year is that from install onwards it just works, as does almost all software including even ...

Aha! Turns out I'm running 32 bit Ubuntu - duh...
Reinstalled the AMD drivers, and the program once again crashes.

For whatever reason, the 64 bit version didn't work, but the 32 bit one does after adding the above mentioned line to the script and everything seems to work fine!

OK, initially downloaded the TGZ files from here and expanded the folder; ran the program via the SweetHome3D shell script in the SH3D folder.

That obviously didn't work for me, so I nuked that folder, and the downloaded TGZs, and installed via the Ubuntu Software Centre . That install refuses to ...

Weeeelllll, the section of the FAQ titled "Sweet Home 3D crashes when I want to edit preferences, print, create a photo or create a video. What can I do?" says:

Click on this link to launch a version of Sweet Home 3D which avoids this test and disables the features depending on offscreen 3D images ...

I'm running 11.04 (natty) on a Dell Inspiron system. SWH3D crasshed reaptedly until I:

a) Removed the proprietary AMD drivers.
b) Installed libgl1-mesa-swx11

It now will start up OK, and will do some things, but if I try to open the preference menu it crashes immediately.

Barry