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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.