Seriously: unless you've got some specialised software that is only available for Windows and has no suitable Open Source alternative, go for Linux.

For starters, you'll have a lot more space on your hard drive for more cool programs and more data. Then there's all the other advantages Linux has ...

(Only If You want cool ). It appears you don't want.
Why?:

I dunno, I'm just lazy , I guess [:p]

The package versions have always worked well in the past and I'm just used to doing dpkg for anything I want to install.

So: I finally got around to doing what you told me to do and installed SH3D ...

And why not SH3D 6.3???
Because he use repository version.

Yep. And because I wrote that the night before I located the .deb for SH3D 6.3...

so I'm now running 6.3

Read this post . I've write it especially for guys like You.

Many thanks. I've read it - it looks awesome - when I've got time ...

That's a helluva lot of work you've done there. Really impressive.

Hi Dorin
My 2-core 2.16GHz 3MB RAM laptop "didn't like" SH3D 6.1.2 when I installed it, so I had to roll back to v4.3.

However, I've now built a dedicated "Media Machine" with improved specs running Debian 10 and I can now run SH3D 6.1.2 without it freezing up when I try to do basic tasks... like ...

TY Wolf !

[=D>]
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Happy to give something back - little as it is - to the community.

OK, I found and downloaded the export to SH3F plugin but I clearly don't know what I'm doing because, when I tested it, it exported pretty much everything I've ever imported into Sweet Home 3D, not just the objects I wanted.

So I've put all the models I've made into a .zip archive which should be ...

Hi Hans

How do I create an SH3F file? Happy to share.

Sadly the half and quarter cylinders don't come out as smooth as an actual cylinder and you can see the segments - however, that won't be as noticeable when they're scaled down.

When I haven't been able to find a piece of furniture or an item that matches something I want to include in a scene, I use Sweet Home 3D to build one out of primitives.

The three main ones being the box, cylinder and sphere primitives that come with Sweet Home 3D.

Recently I've increased my stock ...

Hi Emmanuel

Very helpful thread. Merci beaucoup!
I've downloaded the models in that thread and will have a play with them.

Thanks, Hans. Good suggestion.
After my initial post, I actually found a thread saying how to make glowing letters for neon signs and therein learned how to set the illum in ...