Print at Dec 17, 2025, 5:52:28 PM

Posted by dorin at Apr 17, 2018, 2:42:23 PM
Re: Group furniture items in category
I propose some principles for testers. Could be improved.
1. Use the official installer version from Sweet home 3D site (Windows, Linux32, Linux64)
Note: It's necessarily to have the same version of java. In many distributions is the principal reason to don't work properly.

2. A clean install. No other furniture, languages, plugins and textures.
- To do this backup Your current installation:
Under Linux: -rename the folder ~/.eteks/sweethome3d to ~/.eteks/sweethome3d-1
or
-rename similar all the folders to keep the preferences file
-restart the SH3D program which will recreate the necessary folders
-if You have to test an plugin than make the plugins directory under ~/.eteks/sweethome3d and copy the sh3p file in it.

Under Windows: -rename C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\eTeks\Sweet Home 3D to C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\eTeks\Sweet Home 3D-1
Note: Windows testers know bather if it work or not or how to do this.

3. Make the tests:
3.1 First set of tests
- without drawing (if the tests could be made like this, e.g. "FurnGrouper" plugin)
- with fresh simple drawing which include most of parts of a plan (rooms, walls, door&windows, furniture etc.)
- with an existing more complex already made plan
3.2 Second set of tests
- reverse the folders name previously renamed to their originals to have again all personal furniture, languages, plugins and textures
- copy the plugin (furniture or texture) in corresponded folder to be available to test again
- repeat the tests from 3.1

4. Collect and share the resuls with specify:
- the operating sistem and version
- few hardware specifications like CPU and graphic card

Here I've made on completion of my previous post, this:
SH3D clean, no drawing -memory usage: 198.756k
SH3D clean, no drawing + SH3DFurnGrouper.sh3p activated -memory usage: 254.388k
SH3D clean, no drawing + SH3DFurnGrouper.sh3p deactivated -memory usage: 263.020k
SH3D clean, simple drawing + SH3DFurnGrouper.sh3p activated -memory usage: 275.728k

OS: Debian "buster"; Kernel 4.15.0-2-amd64; KDE Plasma 5.12.4
Hardware: CPU 2 x Intel Core 2 Duo
Video on board
RAM: 4G
Note: This is one of the desktop computers (from work)
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