App freezes and/or crashes in Mac OS.

[mihalich]

And following to your suggestions. I could not run an online version - it opens in Safari but most of buttons are inactive so I can not really open anything. With regards to Java Web start version, I encountered another problem - the file opens, I can change the textures etc., however 3D-view is disabled. The reason is unknown. So I will better go with a clean install of OS - this looks to be the only solution for me. Thank you for your help and the info.

[bunk3m]

I can confirm same behaviour. I installed from the dmg a year or so back. On OSX 10.8.5 SH3d ran fine. I don't remember which version of Java (Apple or Oracle) was being used.

Since I updated to Mavericks 10.9.5 a few weeks back, SH3d will only show the splash screen and the SweetHome3d menu with Preferences and Quit. There are no other menu items.

I can't go back to 10.8.5 at this time. So help getting this to run on 10.9.x would be appreciated.

[mihalich]

Hi, bunk3m. I run a few tests and confirm that native Sweethome 3D app works smoothly both on 10.8.5 and on 10.9.5 as soon as both systems are clean. By no chance I could get it run on the latest 10.9.5 with all my software and apps installed, so I just made yet another clean install of 10.8.5 (formatted HDD and recovered via Internet) and now I'm recovering all my data manually from the latest time machine backup (including mails, iTunes library, software settings etc.) Looks like the only solution to me, and I decided to hang with 10.8.5 and prevent from running Mavericks at the moment (and especially Yosemite which looks like a complete disaster!!!).

[Puybaret]

My 10.9.5 system running on an iMac i7 is far from clean: I updated it from 10.7.5 recently, and the 10.7.5 install was itself an update from older systems, but I never had any problem to run Sweet Home 3D on it. Then, I suspect an error in Apple graphic drivers on some computers, or an extension that would interact with your system.
In the case of mihalich, it's probably the second kind of issue since Sweet Home 3D runs on a clean install of the system.
bunk3m, on which kind of computer did you try?

[bunk3m]

Thanks for the suggestions. I didn't receive a notice of the post so apologize for not coming back quickly to see your suggestions.

I downloaded v4.5 today. I deleted my JDK1.7. This was the only Java on my MBP. When I upgraded to 10.9.5 I did a clean install.

v4.5 gets as far as saying that Java 6 is missing and if I want to download. Well I don't want to put Java 6 on this. I have JDK1.7 and JDK1.8.

Is there a work around to get SH3D to start using java 7 or 8?

[bunk3m]

I tried this from another post:

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java -Xmx2048m -jar /path/to/SweetHome3D-4.3.jar

but get an error:
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Invalid or corrupt jarfile /Applications/Sweet Home 3D.app/Contents/Resources/Java/SweetHome3D.jar

[:(]

[Puybaret]

You should try with the executable Jar distributed separately not the one included in Sweet Home 3D.app folder.

[bunk3m]

I did some work deleting Java and reinstalling on OSX 10.9 and I was able to get Eclipse to start without any problems but not SH3D.

The error message from console is:

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11.11.2014 5:23:41.057 PM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[286]: (com.eteks.sweethome3d.SweetHome3D.47200[22378]) Exited with code: 1

Can you share with me why it exits with this error?

I downloaded the Jar file from the link in the post above. This works OK. Thanks for your help! [:))]

[Puybaret]

Did you read the recommandations described in the README.TXT file included with source code?
If you don't set the java.ext.dirs property, it won't work.