When working in the 2D floorplan view, the objects I add appear with a general 3D symbol, like the Example2-plan.jpg in the 2nd row of the gallery, rather than with a 2D symbol that I would expect, like in the Example3-plan.jpg in the 3rd row of the gallery. Why is this and how can I change it?
Tried just about everything I could find and the only thing I suspected that could relate to it is one of the selections in Preference, the one on the 8th row, in swedish "Möbelikoner i planlösningen" which would translate to something like "Furniture icons in the floorplan". However, this selection is greyed out in the preferences and cannot be changed. Why is this greyed out?
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Re: 3D in floorplan view?
Did you download your version on this website, or on another? You guessed correctly the preference option is what you want. You should have a choice between 3d catalog view, and topview, and I think you would want topview. Why it would be greyed out, I can only guess that you might have downloaded a version from another website that disabled that feature for some reason.
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Re: 3D in floorplan view?
Does your file menu look like this?
And you should be able to assess the preferences there. And you want to make your icon topview as mine is...
If your version doesn't look like this, that is a mystery to me, as I also got my version from this site....
Can you post a screen capture of your file menu?
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I noticed that if I opened the preferences directly after having started the program, without loading my project, the selection was not greyed out. So instead I stayed in 3D-icon view, added a single symbol, went back into the preferences, still not greyed out, changed to 2D-view and hit OK, then the following error message popped up.
"Sweet Home 3D must exit now because of a fatal error in 3D rendering system. Do you want to save all modified homes?"
Next time I start up the program, the selection is greyed out directly from start.
Apparently there's a bug somewhere here.
I'm running Win XP on a HP NX7400 laptop, using Intel Mobile 945 express chipset.
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Re: 3D in floorplan view?
Thomas, your video driver doesn't support offscreen 3D images, and it's why the option is disabled in the preferences (you won't be able to print the 3D view and manage the two lowest photo and video quality levels too). If the option was enabled, choosing Top view would simply make the program crash. If you're under Windows, you may try the DirectX solution described in the FAQ.
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Re: 3D in floorplan view?
Good thing the expert came to save the day... I keep forgetting topview is not a set picture file made when the furniture is imported.
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I keep forgetting topview is not a set picture file made when the furniture is imported.
