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Hi Emmanuel
Sometimes, but not always, SH3D crashes after adjusting the window size by moving the separator between 2D view and 3D view. I think there is a thread about that problem somewhere else in this forum, but I couldn't find it right now. I encountered this problem in V.3.7. and I still encounter it in V. 4.0 Beta, that's why I post it here. Last time, I got the "spinning wheel of death" and had to completely reboot the system. Could it be a memory problem? That would explain why the crash is not always reproducible.
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I fear it's more complicated than that. But in all case, I'm pretty sure you don't need to reboot, simply press cmd + alt + esc keys, select Sweet Home 3D in the applications list and click on Force Quit. See also this document for other ways.
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Thanks for the hint, Emmanuel. Of course I tried several Force Quit options as described in your post before shutting down the system. In earlier cases, this was also useful, but not the last time...
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Hi Puybaret, I think there might be an issue with obj-export in 4.0.b18.
What I did: an object in sweethome has a texture and I modify that with the dialogue box "Modify: texture" and change the texture to a color. After exporting to obj, in the other program where I imported the obj, the texture is still shown.
Expected beahviour: instead of the texture, in the exported OBJ, the object should have the color-value which I entered in the "modify"-dialogue.
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Hi Jerry2012, I couldn't reproduce your issue on different objects. Could you give me some additional details? Maybe it doesn't work on a particular 3D model. Thanks
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This weekend, the Beta 19 brings more translation updates, and some improvements for sloping ceilings support. At first, I was almost about to remove this feature in version 4.0, because it brings too often some misunderstandings from new users when they include a small wall in a room or don't understand how it works, and also because it didn't support multiple slopes for a room. But finally, I kept it because nevertheless, it's still able to compute complex ceiling surfaces as long as their points are more or less coplanar (i.e. belong to the same plane). As soon as the points are not coplanar, there shouldn't be more than 2 slopes and their shape shouldn't be too complicated. I even fixed a bug that could happen when some room points were aligned, and added support for ceilings at the border of a round sloping wall.
The attached example shows in red the cases that still fail. There's very little chance that it works one day for these, and you'll have to find workarounds (for more than 2 slopes, you just have to create more rooms).
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(Tests of various sloping ceilings)
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And another idea: don't recalculate the ceiling after every change, but make a Recalculate button, just as for the walls around a room. That way you can fool the program a bit: draw the walls in such a way that the ceiling looks good, then change the walls, but not the ceiling.
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I would enable this nice mechanism when there exists only one way of spanning a ceiling (e.g. 2nd from left in top row, or second from top in first column).
However, in some complex situations one can do it in more distinct ways. I would disable the mechanism if different strategies of triangulation result in different ceilings.
The mechanism doesn't work fine for low walls.
the intended ceiling is flat.
And sometimes ceiling covers only part of a floor.
Hi, Sorry if this is unrelated, but as seeing this is a post about the beta, here goes. I've installed the Beta 4 and have recently updated to 4 Beta 20 from an earlier version. It opened up fine the first few times, but now it gives me the following message:
Application Error Unable to launch the application. Name: Sweet Home 3D 4.0 Beta Publisher: eTeks From: http://www.sweethome3d.com
Then, there's two buttons: Ok and Details.
If I click details:
Error: Failed to validate signing of launch file. The signed version does not match the downloaded version.
Then there's a tab "Launch File" with a bunch of code and a tab "Exception" with a bunch of info.
I don't know how to fix this. I've tried reinstalling, rebooting, ending the process manually, etc.
If you need either of the texts under those tabs, let me know.
