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Re:Sweet Home 3D is a free interior design application by alanbernstein on Friday February 17, 2023 @02:41PM (#34839361)
I had a need for this kind of tool a while ago, and this was the ONLY decent option I found. I'm just wondering what alternatives are even available. I figured there must be some professional software for this, but if so, I don't know what it is.

I was pretty happy with this for whatever project I was doing at the time. I recently started using inkscape, just to have a general purpose drawing of my house. There, it can include raster maps, layers with other kinds of information like a circuit map, etc.

It just seems like a "whole-house visual diagram" software tool should exist.

Re:Sweet Home 3D is a free interior design application by wyldfire on Friday February 17, 2023 @03:19PM (#34839966)
> this was the ONLY decent option I found

Can SketchUp do any of this?

Re:Sweet Home 3D is a free interior design application by dddddaviddddd on Friday February 17, 2023 @03:56PM (#34840451)
It can, but when I last looked, you needed the paid version to have similar features.
Re:Sweet Home 3D is a free interior design application by xupybd on Friday February 17, 2023 @06:44PM (#34842127)
Fusion 360 is free for personal use. It could probably do this
Re:Sweet Home 3D is a free interior design application by xupybd on Friday February 17, 2023 @09:34PM (#34843256)
Wow didn't expect down votes on that response.
Re:Sweet Home 3D is a free interior design application by jasonjamerson on Friday February 17, 2023 @07:09PM (#34842381)
I recommend modeling in Blender and importing to Unreal, which has a library of furnishings and real time rendering.
Re:Sweet Home 3D is a free interior design application by djhn on Saturday February 18, 2023 @03:52AM (#34845238)
But only if you budget the time for learning those. Blender might take several hours of tutorials just to be able to create an empty room in the shape of a regular, rectangular box.

Also Blender lacks support for exact measurements AFAIK.

I tried this approach but gave up after barely achieving a rough floor plan after a day's of work.

Re:Sweet Home 3D is a free interior design application by jasonjamerson on Saturday February 18, 2023 @10:04AM (#34847390)
It definitely takes some doing, and you're right about the measurements.

I often draft the floorplan in AutoCAD first, bring that into Blender...

But the results are amazing. I wonder if a powerful but easy interface could be built as a bridge /plugin for these tools.

Re:Sweet Home 3D is a free interior design application by jlv2 on Friday February 17, 2023 @09:47PM (#34843353)
I kept the installer for the last free version of SketchUp around for exactly this reason.
Re:Sweet Home 3D is a free interior design application by smtpserver on Friday February 17, 2023 @03:20PM (#34839985)
This is pretty neat https://home.by.me/en/
Re:Sweet Home 3D is a free interior design application by aweb on Friday February 17, 2023 @05:37PM (#34841570)
Agreed, I use it a lot for personal projects and it's quite straightforward to use while still pretty powerful. I'd just like to export the data somehow though
Re:Sweet Home 3D is a free interior design application by michaelmior on Friday February 17, 2023 @04:23PM (#34840763)
I like magicplan[0]. It's not perfect, but I like that I can just point my phone around the room and tap on points to create a rough layout. You can add in precise measurements later if you choose to.

[0] https://www.magicplan.app/

Re:Sweet Home 3D is a free interior design application by notJim on Friday February 17, 2023 @06:02PM (#34841808)
I think "floor plan app" is the keyword you want to use, there are a bunch of these. You draw a floor plan and then most of them can give you a 3d render based on that. I used floorplanner.com, but there are several options.
Re:Sweet Home 3D is a free interior design application by Nition on Friday February 17, 2023 @07:59PM (#34842732)
When I was a kid around 1995, my dad brought home a demo of Chief Architect 4.0 on a floppy disk. It was basically full-featured except you couldn't save any plans.

I had fun drawing 2D house plans. Eventually I discovered through randomly clicking around that there was a button where you could place a camera anywhere and VIEW YOUR HOUSE IN 3D. Incredible. I didn't even own a 3D videogame at that point. The house and all its furniture were untextured but you could select the paint colour.

Look like they still exist[1] and have a consumer-targeted version now as well, called Home Designer.[2] I have no idea whether it's any good.

[1] https://www.chiefarchitect.com/ [2] https://www.homedesignersoftware.com/

Re:Sweet Home 3D is a free interior design application by userbinator on Friday February 17, 2023 @10:03PM (#34843446)
I figured there must be some professional software for this, but if so, I don't know what it is.

There's a whole category of such software, it's called CAD. The professional products are notoriously expensive.

Re:Sweet Home 3D is a free interior design application by alanbernstein on Thursday February 23, 2023 @01:08PM (#34914160)
I'm quite familiar with CAD for the purpose of designing things from scratch. What I want to do is, essentially, create blueprints for an old, poorly designed and built house. The tools I have tried for this are not really well-suited to this task.
Re:Sweet Home 3D is a free interior design application by iorrus on Friday February 17, 2023 @10:23PM (#34843556)
Floorplanner is pretty good imo but it’s an alternative with roughly the same features and functionality
Re:Sweet Home 3D is a free interior design application by jnrk on Saturday February 18, 2023 @04:32AM (#34845450)
> I figured there must be some professional software for this, but if so, I don't know what it is.

As an architect I can confirm that there's indeed a lot of professional software for this. The ones I usually work in are Revit and ArchiCAD, which are tailored for architects. Our interior architects also use Sketchup a lot. There's also more general-purpose CAD software like AutoCAD and Vectorworks available.

Re:Sweet Home 3D is a free interior design application by ixs on Sunday February 19, 2023 @05:04AM (#34856084)
I‘ve been working with sweet home 3d a bit but then gave up on it after running into rendering issues.

Found https://pcon-planner.com/en/?privat=530&page=126 instead which is windows only and bon-open source but effectively free.

Pretty impressive stuff. Been very happy so far.