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| Posted by hansmex at Nov 26, 2010, 12:46:42 AM |
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Re: Sweet Home 3D usability Chipmaster, Macfrog, For those people who prefer to start drawing the rooms, and build the walls afterward, there's this feature: - click the Floors button and draw your room; - click the Walls button; - double-click the room and the walls will automatically surround the room. This feature is interesting if you want to design just one room. However nice this feature is, this way of designing a house has some serious drawbacks: - when drawing multiple rooms, walls between rooms will not line up properly; - adjacent rooms will not share walls; - giving rooms exact measures is very difficult using just the mouse. This last drawback can be circumvented using the AdvancedEdit plug-in. Together these drawbacks will make your plans next to useless for any serious design work, as no contractor can use such a plan with approximate measures, nor can you reliably do any planning of furniture, kitchen, bathroom, etc. I have been an interior designer for 10 years, and I think I know what I'm talking about. If you want to do some initial designing, the best way is to use pen and paper. Make some sketches, erase what you don't like, move walls around as much as you like until you are more or less satisfied. Every architect and designer I ever had to deal with works this way. They can't all be wrong. Once you are satisfied with your rough sketches, you can make a first 3D plan. But be prepared that you will have to erase (parts of) it, and start all over several times. If on the other hand you strongly prefer to work in 3D, my guess would be that Google SketchUp is a much better alternative. It allows you to easily generate the volume of your new house, and from there work inwards, designing the rooms. The good news is that it's free, the bad news is that the learning curve is a bit steeper. And, please, don't compare the two, because it's not fair: SH3D is like a one-man-band, while Google is a large symphony orchestra. Hans ---------------------------------------- Hans new website - under constuction hansdirkse.info |
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