Sweet Home 3D is a free interior design application

Furniture libraries from major vendors would be great!

Just to be clear, 'Show HN: ' wasn't an accidental or unknowing omission - I have nothing to do with the project. I just happened across it, thought it was cool, and wanted to read the HN comments.

- Yes it is dated (and very fast) - so what? The app is the important thing, the website works.

- If you need to find it, you will. I cannot recall failing to find download links (at least two of them on the home page)

- Mobile. Perhaps if you have a 21" screen on it!

ML? Not too sure about that here. Perhaps Ikea et al could run with that. I use it starting from reality. Perhaps hitching it up to a theodolite, EDM and other measuring tools would be more useful than a "what if I could read your mind and get it badly wrong" tool.

Conversions are visitors turned into paying customers; since there is nothing offered for pay, the site has no conversions no matter what it does.

Well, unless you count donations, but you need to move the donate link, not the download link, to improve that.

> Make a mobile version, especially for tablets.

Maintaining an additional version is an additional cost. Since, again, this is a free offering with no monetization besides donations, and no obvious aspirations in that direction, suggesting additional costs are taken on seems entitled, or, at best, badly confused.

> combined with sites like Wayfair, IKEA, and Overstock.com, you can have a design --> purchase pipeline which is both convenient for consumers and beneficial for you via referral revenue.

Is there anything on the site indicating that the creator has any interest in building a marketing platform for retail outlets instead of free non-commercial tool?

If they do rule that way, it’ll be interesting to see how it conflicts with the DMCA related element allowing individuals to reverse engineer abandoned services

It is almost inevitable that after a few years you'll be dependent on deprecated or abandoned libraries and frameworks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moving_sofa_problem

You should buy a Gerver sofa.

I was kinda thinking of something that maybe uses AR to measure/scan your house and turn it into a floor plan, was disappointed that it didn't really exist as far I looked.

Australian too. We had a couple days where our normal CAD program went offline due to a bug in their license checker.

I used this to fill the gap.

I agree, it is great for homeowners to easily spitball reno ideas with a small learning curve, allowing you to share your vision with your spouse or architect.

Also check with your city - blueprints are on file going quite far back in many places.

1) I took a lot of photos - every space from multiple directions;

2) For each photo, I manually drew the "wireframe" of the space in Inkscape on a separate layer on top of the photo - wall/floor lines, doorways, windows, furniture;

3) I printed out the wireframe layers, grabbed a pencil and a measuring tape, and started to measure.

Step 2) could probably be semi-automated with some edge detection. Step 3) could probably be done if I had any recent experience doing photogrammetry. But fully manual solution wasn't that bad; I did my measurements over the course of a month, and finally made up a full floorplan in SweetHome3D with accurately sized furniture in one evening. This let my wife and me design a new furniture arrangement and buy appropriately sized movables in a single hour.

For people who, like me, lack the "mind's eye" and spatial imagination, having the flat digitized like this has immense value.

For an exterior an inch or 2 of accuracy is fine, but for interiors you should try to be accurate to around 1/4 or 1/8 inch (.5 cm).

It doesn't take as long as you might think, especially if you have a helper.

Make a rough floor plan (on paper), then measure and mark each wall on the plan.

Then enter all that into the program, and just stare at it - make sure it looks right. (It's far too easy to mess up, or not do the wall thickness right.)

Then go back and measure the location of doors and windows (including height, and offset from the floor). Put all that in.

Resist the urge to put in furniture until you are mostly done.

If you have multiple levels things will be more complex - you will need to know floor thickness, and ceiling height.

Then I just double checked wall length with a tape measure, because I wanted 100% exact measurements, out of the box the app was 95% accurate. In my experience this is more than enough for the purposes of furniture placement planning and things like that, and it's pretty fast to do too.

I got a big A2 piece of paper to make a precise drawing at about 1:25 scale of the major walls. When dealing with things like wall thickness, I found that much easier than trying to enter my measurements directly in SweetHome3D, especially because I had never used it before, and the workflow takes some time getting used to.

https://freecadweb.org/wiki/Arch_tutorial

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