the result is a concatenation of all the sf3f files in that folder
It's a little more complicated than that: objects in a SH3F file can have an ID, and only one object with a given ID can exist in the catalog.But as the default version of the Furniture Library Editor can't let you edit the ID of each object, the behavior you noticed is actually right.
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Emmanuel Puybaret, Sweet Home 3D creator
