Sweet Home 3D 6.2, create 2D plans with a 3D preview

about Sweet Home 6.2

In the next article we are going to take a look at Sweet Home 3D. It is a free design software application that helps users create a 2D plan of a house, with a 3D preview. It will also allow us to decorate the exterior and interior view along with the possibility of placing furniture and appliances. In Sweet Home 3D, furniture can be imported and arranged to create a virtual environment. It can also be used to design house plans. In the following lines we are going to see how to easily install the latest version of Sweet Home 3D on Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 18.04 and higher.

As I said, Sweet Home 3D is an editor CAD of engineering, architecture and construction licensed under the GNU General Public License. With the furniture and accessories that we can use, we will be able to design a home in a 2D plan, which we will be able to see thanks to its 3D preview. We can even record a video touring our design.

If you like interior designThanks to this application, the user will be able to visualize how their home will look according to the place the furniture occupies. With this, anyone can make the combination task easier, which can be complicated when we are not sure how to exchange the furniture and objects that we already have.

The application will offer us a good variety of predesigned elements. These will be enough to give us a fairly accurate idea of ​​how our house will be after making some improvements. Even if these elements are not enough for us, from the page of free 3D models (in English) we will be able to get hold of more than 1100 3D models created by contributors. All these models can be used thanks to furniture import assistant by Sweet Home 3D.

Sweet Home properties

Sweet Home 3D will also allow us import libraries of 3D models stored in SH3F files. An SH3F file groups models with their description. This can be easily installed by double clicking on it or choosing from the menu Furniture → Import furniture library.

video creation with Sweet Home 6.2

Sweet Home 3D is available in Spanish, English, French or Portuguese. Also can be run on Windows, Mac OS X, Gnu / Linux and Solaris.

Install Sweet Home 3D 6.2 via Snap on Ubuntu:

Although Sweet Home 3D offers official packages for Gnu / Linux, you may not want to browse their website and download the tarball on duty every time a new version is released.

For the Ubuntu desktop, there is a .deb package and a Snap package available. In case anyone doesn't know yet, it must be said that Snap is a containerized software package that runs on most Gnu / Linux desktops. It includes the necessary libraries and is updated automatically.

El Sweet Home 3D 6.2 Snap Pack It is maintained by Jean-Baptiste Lallement. For install the Snap on Ubuntu 16.04, we must open the terminal (Ctrl + Alt + T) and execute the following 2 commands one by one:

sudo apt install snapd 
sudo snap install sweethome3d-homedesign

In case of using a higher version of Ubuntu, we will only have to go to the software option. There we will find this program available as a snap package in its version 6.2.

Ubuntu software option Sweet Home 3d installation

Install in Ubuntu Sweet Home 3D as .deb package

sweet home working

Ubuntu offers the Sweet Home 3D package .deb ready to use. However, there is a time lapse (even for a few months) between the new release date and the .deb package update. For this reason, if we use this installation, the latest stable version available today will be 6.1.2.

The .deb package can be install via Ubuntu software option or by running the following command in terminal (Ctrl + Alt + T):

sudo apt install sweethome3d

Once installed, future updates will be available through the Software Updater utility.

If you need help when carrying out projects with this program, we can see Sweet Home 3D video-tutorial. We can also use Sweet Home 3D Help. We will find this available from the Help button that we will find in the toolbar of the program.


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