Instead of a adding a menu, the furniture modification dialog could show the 3D model of the edited piece and a list to choose an other one.
Yes that would work and be helpful, as long as it also enables both internal and loading external models as a choice of replace.The default thickness is 7.5 cm simply because it's the thickness of the partition walls in my home. As the thickness of exterior walls may vary a lot from one home to the other, I preferred to use that value as a default.
I wouldn't mind to change this value but I don't believe that increasing it would help to create larger rooms. A tip showing the squared value of the current length (or the result of multiplying the current length with the length of the previous wall when it exists) would probably help more users, because I think most people know the standard surface of rooms as soon as they moved once (for example, in France flats, bedrooms are around 10 m², a living room is most of the time between 10 m² and 25 m², a kitchen between 5 m² and 10 m²).
Wow! I'm am quite surprised and almost shocked that your walls are so thin, it must be very difficult with soundproofing. Is that the standard partition wall thickness in France? I recently had a stud partition wall built and measured it just a few hours ago for you, including plaster (which I felt I should do because your Sweet Home walls come with surfaces attached) it is almost 14cm.I wouldn't mind to change this value but I don't believe that increasing it would help to create larger rooms. A tip showing the squared value of the current length (or the result of multiplying the current length with the length of the previous wall when it exists) would probably help more users, because I think most people know the standard surface of rooms as soon as they moved once (for example, in France flats, bedrooms are around 10 m², a living room is most of the time between 10 m² and 25 m², a kitchen between 5 m² and 10 m²).
I still think a default thickness of 20cm or more would help encourage users to build bigger. I would imagine almost every user will start by building external walls (which of course need to be a lot thicker than 7.5cm) then work on the innards. If they see the walls as a thicker mass they will automatically draw adjoining walls with greater lengths and distances between to prevent them looking too cramped on the plan.
If you wouldn't mind changing it, then go for it!
After all people can always make the walls thinner if they want them.I know it would be a bit like the question "How long is a piece of string?" but I wonder if there are any builders reading this if they could suggest a good average starting external/internal wall thickness?
db4tech
you see almost all the furniture that is available on the download page (if it is in a multiple furniture package) is already to the correct scale when used in the plan, only separate imported (OBJ, DAE, 3DS plus others) furniture and objects need to be scaled correctly on import.