Tips and Tricks

This page lists tips for Sweet Home 3D published in the blog and on Sweet Home 3D YouTube channel.

Tips in the blog		Date
	How to add a basement to a design This tip explains how to add a basement to your design with a level at a negative elevation.	21 Apr 2022
	Sweet Home 3D 6.3 Sweet Home 3D 6.3 was released yesterday with a few improvements and some bug fixes.	16 Apr 2020
	Sweet Home 3D 6.2 Sweet Home 3D 6.2 was released yesterday to fix some bugs, mainly in relation with groups management.	11 Jul 2019
	Sweet Home 3D at school/ Sweet Home 3D à l’école Sweet Home 3D is used in many schools in the world. Some French teachers kindly answered to our questions.	06 May 2019
	Optimizing Large Designs in Sweet Home 3D This article proposes several tips to create and optimize the design of large buildings.	22 Mar 2019
	How to design a split-level house This tip presents how to design a split-level house, using Sweet Home 3D levels.	04 May 2018
	How to design a beautiful garden on Sweet Home 3D This article presents various tips to design a beautiful garden.	21 Jun 2017
	Sweet Home 3D: how to show interior parts hidden by walls This tip proposes several ways to get nice 3D views of the interior of a house partly hidden by walls.	12 May 2017
	How to get a nice photo rendering This tip gives some simple advice to get a pleasant and photorealistic rendering.	24 Dec 2016
	How to design wall recesses in Sweet Home 3D This tip shows how to design recesses in walls order to fit a door or a window in thick walls.	07 Oct 2016
	How to customize staircases This tip shows how to customize the new staircases proposed in the Contributions furniture library 1.6.	20 May 2016
	Sweet Home 3D: changing the colors of a texture This tip shows how to change the colors of a texture with Gimp.	31 Jan 2016
	How to add a scenery around your home This tip shows how to display an image as a scenery around your home.	01 Jan 2016
	How to print a grid in the plan or display it in 3D This three-in-one tip shows how to print a grid under your home and also how to display a grid in the 3D view.	05 Dec 2015
	How to design a mezzanine This tip shows how to design a mezzanine and reviews the differences between wall and room creation tools.	29 Aug 2015
	How to: Design a Sloping Ceiling with a Window in Sweet Home 3D This tip shows how to design a sloping ceiling for a room under a roof.	28 May 2015
	How to Get Softer Shadows in Sweet Home 3D: Lighting Techniques for Realistic Rendering This tip shows how to get softer shadows in a scene designed with Sweet Home 3D.	22 Dec 2014
	Sweet Home 3D Tutorial: Create Wall Opening with Invisible Triangles This tip shows how to create a hole at the bottom of a wall with Sweet Home 3D.	09 Oct 2014
	How-To: Swimming Pool Design in Sweet Home 3D (Step-by-Step Guide) This tip shows how to design a nice buried swimming pool with Sweet Home 3D.	04 Sep 2014
	How-To: Apply Textures on a Box in Sweet Home 3D This first tip shows you various ways to apply textures on a box.	13 Aug 2014