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| Posted by Keet at Oct 1, 2025, 9:01:53 AM |
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Re: Start Point It depends on the type of object. Walls: Walls have a startpoint and endpoint defined as X,Y coordinate pairs. The points refer to the center of each end of a wall. This means the line between the start- and endpoint is a line through the center of the wall. If you want to align a side of a wall to the grid you can move the wall using half of the thickness of the wall. Example: Your wall has the startpoint 0,0 and endpoint 100,0 and has a thickness of 10. This means that the centerline of the wall goes from 0,0 to 100,0 and doesn't align with the grid line at X=0. To move the wall so the top of the wall aligns with the X=0 gridline you move the wall half of its thickness down: Y+(10/2). You can add "+(10/2)" (without quotes) after both of the Y coordinates of the wall, Sweet Home 3D will calculate the new Y coordinate. Furniture: Basically the same but the X and Y coordinates of furniture refer to the center point of the object. To align an object to a specific grid point you use half of the width to adjust the X position and half the depth to adjust the Y position. Of course you add/substract the distance to the gridline you want. Rooms: Rooms don't have an X,Y centerpoint which makes it impossible to use the same calculations. However rooms do display the lenght of sides when you select the room and click-and-hold on a room-point. You can use that as a reference for moving a room. In most cases a room is inside a set of walls and it is easier to either recreate the room or right-click on the room and select "Recompute room points". This is especially usefull when you have moved doors. Make sure you have installed the Advanced Edit plugin. It offers several functions that make moving, rotating, and resizing objects much easier. It also offers a function to manually edit the points of rooms and polylines. And of course use the alignement functions in the right-click context menu to align furniture to other furniture. ---------------------------------------- Dodecagon.nl 1300+ 3D models, manuals, and projects |
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