3d Home Design Software Tutorial

Documentation

User's guides
Video tutorials
Developer's guides
Reviews and awards

This page describes documentations currently available for Sweet Home 3D.

User's guides

Sweet Home 3D user's guide is available at this page, and the list of its shortcuts in this document (PDF).

Sweet Home 3D provides also a regularly updated FAQ and a full help accessible from its Help > Sweet Home 3D Help menu item.

You may also read the following guides written by contributors:

How to create personalized textures for Sweet Home 3D (PDF) by Ouais, translated by Hans Dirkse

How to create a multi-level house with Sweet Home 3D 3.3 or previous versions (PDF) by Hans Dirkse

Tutorial for Plug-ins and Extensions (PDF) by Hans Dirkse

Tutorial for sloping ceilings, roofs, dormers and more (PDF) by Hans Dirkse

Guide for SVG Path cut-outs and other furniture properties (PDF) by OKH

Some tips in Sweet Home 3D blog

Video tutorials

View the following video tutorial to learn how to use the basic features of Sweet Home 3D.

This older video tutorial shows the main features of Sweet Home 3D 1.7.

Visit also Sweet Home 3D YouTube channel for more tutorials and read the article in the blog about the best video tutorials.

Developer's guides

If you want to program a plug-in for Sweet Home 3D, read first the plug-in developer's guide.

If you look for information about the architecture of Sweet Home 3D, you may read:

its API generated with javadoc, available on-line or for download,

the last part of the plug-in developer's guide that gives some details about the classes of Sweet Home 3D model,

the French book Les cahiers du programmeur Swing, written by Emmanuel Puybaret and published by Editions Eyrolles in December 2006, the Sweet Home 3D version 0.10 is the study case of.

If you want to translate Sweet Home 3D into your language, read the translation guide.

Reviews and awards

Some reviews on the web:

You Can Easily Become an Interior Designer! and Sweet Home 3D for Mac Review on Softpedia

Sweet Home 3D: simple interior design on linux.com

Sweet Home 3D Review on Bright hub

Of Software and Soffits on The Blog of Helios

It's Better than Moving Furniture on Becoming Home

The rise of an amateur architect on Ragnvald Larsen blog

My 3D Junk Fair a blog where Leonhard Grugl shares his findings of Sweet Home 3D

5 Best Free 3D Floor Plan Software For Windows on List of freeware

Adapting to Shifting Technologies – The Sweet Home 3D Case on Website Planet blog

Users reviews on SourceForge.net

Reviews in the press:

Projects on the move, in issue #95 of Linux Pro Magazine (October 2008)

See also reviews in French, German, Spanish and Russian.