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drjerry513
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Rearrange Furniture

I am new to this application and learning new things every day. I want to organize my furniture catalog so it is easier for me to locate the individual piece I want to import into my design. For example, there is a Drill in the “Miscellaneous” category that I would like to have in a category I created named “Tools”. How do I move the drill (or any other) piece from one furniture catalog to another?

[May 10, 2025, 8:38:25 PM]

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Keet
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Re: Rearrange Furniture

It depends on how the model was imported in Sweet Home 3D.

Individual imported models have a cursive name in the catalog. You can right click on the model in the catlog and select "Modify furniture". Click <Continue> twice and you see the dialog where you can change the category. Change it and save.

All other models in the catalog were added by importing a Furniture Library. You can't delete or change individual models that are imported this way, you have to edit the library and import the library again. You use the Furniture Library Editor to edit the library. Find the model, double click it (or Ctrl+E). Change the category in the modify dialog that opens. Save the library and (re-)import the library in Sweet Home 3D, replacing the previous library. Your model will reflect the changed category.

A little warning: it is not recommended to change a library that you have not created yourself. Importing an updated library will cause you to loose the changes you have made. You will have to repeat it all over again.
What you can do is create a new personal library with the Furniture Library Editor where you add all the models you want. You can export a model to get the obj/mtl files which you can then import into your new library. That is also a good way to pick a subset of models from a large library. After creating your own library you can remove the source library. Be aware that some models have extra properties set in the library so be carefull to add these too in a new library. These extra properties are in the list you see when you modify a model in the library. Scroll down to see them all and copy them in your new library. Also make sure that you check 'Door or window' or 'Staircase' where necessary. Check if a staircase has a custom SVG cutout string and copy that in your new library.
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[May 12, 2025, 2:53:33 PM]

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drjerry513
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Re: Rearrange Furniture

I tried your recommended solution to no avail.
I am using iMac with macOS Big Sur, version 11.7.10
Here is what I did: I downloaded each of the 3D model libraries like LucaPresidente, Scopia, and BlendSwap-CC and opened and merged each in the Furniture Library editor program. Once opened in the Library editor program, I select “Modify furniture” option for each furniture model and change the model's original library category to one I created, leaving all other information as is. Once I re-categorized all the furniture models, I renamed and saved the newly created .SH3F furniture file.

I then navigated to “Finder/Library/Containers/Sweet Home 3D/Application Support/eTeks/Sweet Home 3D/furniture” folder and deleted all the .SH3F files. I then went to my application folder and right-clicked on the Sweet Home 3D application icon and selected show package contents. Navigating to the “/contents/resources/furniture” folder, I deleted any furniture .SH3F there.

Next, I installed my Newly created furniture file in the Sweet Home 3D application. However, many of the furniture models failed to show in the new furniture category, but instead defaulted to their original category, and sometimes showing in both the new and old category

How can I reassign a model to my created category name and not default to its original category?

[Aug 10, 2025, 7:12:10 AM]

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Keet
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Re: Rearrange Furniture

There is no need to merge the libraries into a single library before you change categories. You can use the same category name in multiple libraries so they appear in Sweet Home 3D under that category. In the Sweet Home 3D catalog all models from all imported libraries will show that have that category name.

Important: Work with the .sh3f files in a separate folder, not the Sweet Home 3D library folder. This will conveniently be a backup folder where no library is lost when you remove it from Sweet Home 3D. Use it as a backup repository with both original and changed libraries. Sweet Home 3D will remember this folder once you have imported a library from it.

I suggest you do the following using the Scopia.sh3f library as an example:

• Copy the Scopia.sh3f file to MyScopia.sh3f.
• Open MyScopia.sh3f in the Furniture Library Editor and change all the categories you want.
• Save the library.
• Remove the file Scopia.sh3f from the Sweet Home 3D library folder. Start Sweet Home 3D and check that the library is indeed removed. (See About Libraries on dodecagon.nl about how to remove a library.)
• Import your MyScopia.sh3f library. Now there should be no doubles.
Repeat for the other libraries.

The advantage of doing this with individual libraries is that if there is an update for a library you only have to repeat the edit process for that library and not have to merge again.

An easy way to get to the Sweet Home 3D library folder: In Sweet Home 3D click Menu > Help > About.
Click the button <Libraries>. It shows three lists with the installed/imported Furniture libraries, Texture libraries, and Plugins.
Clicking one of the Furniture libraries opens a file manager in the folder with installed libraries, even if this is a hidden folder. Simply delete the library file you want to remove and restart Sweet Home 3D.

By-the-way, you can't change the furniture and textures that come with Sweet Home 3D by default. They are not in library files but in Java .jar files and reside in the Sweet Home 3D install folder. You would have to change the source code of Sweet Home 3D and compile it again after the changes. Definitely NOT recommended!
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[Aug 10, 2025, 8:28:06 AM]

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