X-Sweet Home 3D

Sweet Home 3D is a software tool dedicated mostly to interior designers or people passionate about this domain, which can be used in order to place furniture in a two-dimensional house, and preview it in a 3D environment.

This utility is portable, which means you can easily copy the program files to any USB flash drive, so as to run it on every computer you can connect to, without having to go through the installation process.

Another aspect worth mentioning is that the Windows registry is not going to be updated with new entries, and there will be no leftover files upon its removal.

The interface encompasses a clean and intuitive interface, with a menu bar, a few shortcut buttons, and a few panels to display objects used and preview them. Aside from that, it can be used by anybody, regardless of their level of experience.

Sweet Home 3D comes bundled with a pretty long list of furniture and other 3D objects, yet you should more can be downloaded from the developer’s website, or imported from OBJ, DAE, 3DS, LWS and ZIP files.

It is possible to create rooms, walls and levels, insert text, block base plan, modify objects (color, texture, material, shininess, size, location), align or distribute them. You can change the view (aerial or custom), take a picture of user-defined width, height, quality and lens (depth of field, fisheye or spherical), and save it to the hard drive as a PNG.

A video can also be created, the language can be changed, a search function can be used and you can show or hide the grid, navigation arrows and rulers.

Sweet Home 3D proves to be an efficient piece of software through comprehensive Help contents, a user-friendly environment, good response time and enough options to create the perfect home.