What's New in version 3.3:

• Improved the precision of alignement lines.
• Always used PNG format for exported textures to avoid loosing any detail.
• Fixed a bug in OBJ export for models at 3DS format containing some undefined values.
• Fixed a bug that prevented to create photos and videos at the two first quality levels when a sky texture was used.
• Replaced JRE 6u24 by JRE 6u26 in Sweet Home 3D installers bundled with Java.
• Other minor bugs fixes and enhancements.

What's New in version 3.2:

• Improved support for textured transparent models and transparency management in images computed with SunFlow.
• Changed how GMT time zones are displayed to avoid confusion.
• Improved 12/24 hour notation for English speaking users according to user country.
• Fixed a bug that computed wrongly the shape of some parallel joined walls.
• Fixed a bug in 3D viewer applet that prevented it to run.
• Added com.eteks.sweethome3d.no3D system property to disable 3D capabilities of Sweet Home 3D if needed.
• Updated Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Swedish help files.
• Replaced JRE 6u23 by JRE 6u24 in Sweet Home 3D installers bundled with Java.
• Other minor bugs fixes and enhancements.

What's New in version 3.1:

• Managed the printing of the plan on more than one page for big scales.
• Added an icon beside the time spinner of the photo and video creation dialog boxes, to indicate whether the selected time is at day time or at night time.
• Highlighted searched text in help pages.
• Made new round walls symmetric.
• Managed two round walls joined to each other.
• Fixed various bugs in SunFlow library used as the photo rendering engine at the two best quality levels.
• Fixed a bug that prevented from time to time to render correctly textures in photos, at print time and when a textured piece of furniture viewed from top was resized.
• Fixed a bug that prevented some floors from being correctly displayed in a few rare cases.
• Fixed a bug that didn't export rooms at OBJ format anymore.
• Fixed a bug that prevented to read help files included in SH3L language plug-ins.
• Fixed a bug that prevented to install SH3F, SH3T, SH3L and SH3P files by double-clicking on them under Mac OS X.
• Fixed a bug that rendered fully opaque PNG textures as transparent in photos.
• Fixed a bug in the management of the color and the texture of a group of pieces after an undo operation.
• Added auto selection in text fields of color choosers.
• Changed photo quality scale from 0 to 3 to 1 to 4.
• Updated German and Bulgarian help files.
• Added support for Windows 64 bits in the Online version and in the Sweet Home 3D and Furniture Library Editor executable JAR files.
• Replaced JRE 6u22 by JRE 6u23 in Sweet Home 3D installers bundled with Java.
• Other minor bugs fixes and enhancements.

What's New in version 3.0:

• Added suport for round walls.
• Added 3D view > Store point of view... menu item to save the current point of view, and 3D view > Go to point of view menu to go back to a saved point of view.
• Added a compass displayed in the plan as a compass rose and associated to the geographic location of the home.
• Improved photo rendering at the two best quality levels (windows and images transparency support, sun orientation depending on the chosen hour and date, lights management, matt / shiny appearance of surfaces).
• Added 5 lights and 8 colored light sources to the default furniture catalog.
• Displayed selected light sources with wireframe spheres in the 3D view.
• Changed the indicator and the behavior of the bottom left corner of lights to be able to update their light power.
• Added the Keep proportions option to furniture modification dialog to keep furniture proportions when their size is edited.
• Added the Part of base plan option to furniture modification dialog to be able to lock a piece of furniture when the base plan is locked.
• Included all non movable furniture in the locked plan.
• Improved the computing of shadows on the floor of 3D models containing many vertices to avoid the program to hang at the second quality photo rendering level.
• Improved the computing of the max altitude and the 3D rendering in Aerial view mode.
• Updated wrong normals values in some 3D models of the default catalog to improve their rendering.
• Added a cross hatch pattern for walls.
• Print / Copy / Export of the background image if it's displayed in the plan.
• Managed saving of homes data at regular time intervals in a private folder, with automatic recovery of homes in case the program crashed.
• Added automatic deletion of temporary files created by Sweet Home 3D older than a week.
• Kept shapes prefix of furniture exported at OBJ format, to restore prefixed shapes properties correctly at reimporation time.
• Saved Sweet Home 3D preferences in a file independent from Operating System preferences to simplify the transfer of Sweet Home 3D configuration to an other computer.
• Added com.eteks.sweethome3d.preferencesFolder and com.eteks.sweethome3d.applicationFolders system properties to set the folders where are stored Sweet Home 3D preferences and SH3F, SH3T, SH3L and SH3P files.
• Increased the recent files maximum count to 10.
• Waited for a first move of the mouse pointer before duplicating selected items when the ctrl key (or alt key under Mac OS X) is pressed.
• Improved items move with the mouse when they are very small in the plan.
• Increased the moves of selected items in the plan when the keyboard arrows are pressed with the shift key.
• Reversed the effect of pressing the shift key for moves in the 3D view.
• Correction de bugs qui empêchaient le bon affichage des sols des pièces qui se chevauchent.
• Updated help pages (only in English and French in this version).
• Removed the ID column from the columns list displayed in Furniture Library Editor.
• Replaced JRE 6u21 by JRE 6u22 in Sweet Home 3D installers bundled with Java.
• Other minor bugs fixes and enhancements.

What's New in version 2.6:

• Computed correctly holes made in a wall by doors and windows superimposed on top of each other.
• Removed the shininess that appeared on walls and floors under some view angles.
• Fixed a bug that prevented to save a video under Mac OS X.
• Fixed a bug that stopped rendering 3D models with too large texture coordinates.
• Fixed a bug that prevented to use some 3D models containing many shapes.
• Improved DAE/Collada support for files exported from Solidworks and other tools.
• Updated Furniture Library Editor to version 1.1 to fix a few minor bugs.
• Replaced JRE 6u20 by JRE 6u21 in Sweet Home 3D installers bundled with Java.
• Other minor bugs fixes and enhancements.

What´s New in version 2.5:

• Released the version 1.0 of the Furniture Library Editor, a separate tool that lets the user create and edit more easily some SH3F files.
• Fixed a bug that didn't update furniture and textures catalogs after a modified SH3F or SH3T file is imported.
• Fixed a regression bug on textures applied to 3D models with a size different from the one of a 1 centimeter cube.
• Improved DAE/Collada format support for files exported from Sketchup.
• Lowered ground level in the 3D view to limit blinking effect during video creation.
• Suppressed double faces in the rendering computed by SunFlow to get best results.
• Fixed a bug that blocked SunFlow rendering engine when a home contained some furniture imported from 3DS models.
• Fixed a bug that prevented SunFlow to render images when a home contained superimposed walls.
• Improved textures cache.
• Improved temporary files management under Mac OS X and Linux.
• Limited the height of the photo and video creation dialogs for small screens.
• Other minor bugs fixes and enhancements.

What´s New in version 2.4:

• Added DAE/Collada format to the file formats supported by furniture import wizard, to be able to import the 3D models proposed on Google 3D Warehouse.
• Added support for transparency in PNG/GIF images applied as texture to 3D models.
• Displayed the lines defined in OBJ and DAE files.
• Fixed 3D rendering to ensure OBJ files created from the exportation of the 3D view keep the same look when imported.
• Modulated texture illumination according to ambient lights (caution, this may change the brightness of images displayed in existing SH3D files).
• Fixed a bug that moved out of center some imported 3DS models.
• Fixed a bug that made an imported OBJ file lose its colors when its name contained non ASCII letters.
• Fixed a bug that prevented overlapping floors from being correctly displayed.
• Fixed a bug that didn't restore correctly the saved location of view splitters for maximized windows.
• Optimized memory used by 3D models.
• Modified installation process of Sweet Home 3D with Java Web Start to display the security dialog earlier.
• Added furnitureResourcesURLBase and texturesResourcesURLBase parameters to Sweet Home 3D applet to simplify the deployment of furniture and textures catalogs on other servers.
• Replaced JRE 6u18 by JRE 6u20 in Sweet Home 3D installers bundled with Java.
• Other minor bugs fixes and enhancements.

What's New in version 2.3:

• Added Furniture > Group and Furniture > Ungroup menu items to group furniture and ungroup furniture groups.
• Added support for texture mapping on furniture.
• Added the ability to create videos from a path in the 3D view.
• Added 3D view > Display in separate window menu item.
• Added pan mode in the plan activated by Plan > Pan menu item or temporarily with the space bar.
• Zoom in the plan with the mouse wheel while keeping the ctrl key pressed (or cmd key under Mac OS X).
• Added Category folders / Searchable list options in preferences pane to choose the display style of the furniture catalog view.
• Added navigation arrows in the top left corner of the 3D view with an option in preferences pane to hide them.
• Added an indicator in the back of the virtual visitor to modify the height of the point of view.
• Increased the maximum height of the visitor to 26.78 m (height of the eyes at 25 m).
• Enabled the user to enter the size of dimensions with the keyboard once he pressed the Enter key.
• Added the ability to create dimensions on furniture side, wall side or room side with a double-click.
• Added Furniture > Import textures library... menu item to import textures libraries at SH3T format.
• Added support for SH3L language plug-ins to support more languages in Sweet Home 3D.
• Added com.eteks.sweethome3d.j3d.checkOffScreenSupport Java system property equal to true by default. When this property is equal to false, Sweet Home 3D doesn't check whether Java 3D supports offscreen 3D images; such a test could make the program crash in a few cases (mostly under Linux). Printing the 3D view, computing the top view of furniture in the plan and the two lowest photo quality levels are not available when offscreen 3D images aren't supported.
• Improved the icon creation process of imported furniture to get an icon with a transparent background.
• Improved grid and rulers display at small scales.
• Avoided to display text upside down on new dimensions.
• Enlarged the light influencing bounds for big buildings.
• Fixed the direction of the texture mapped on the ground.
• Fixed a bug that prevented to easily enter numbers bigger than 10000 in spinners -/+.
• Fixed a bug that didn't take into account the current unit of the minimum and maximum values in spinners.
• Fixed the rendering of textures mapped to walls and computed with SunFlow rendering engine.
• Improved saving to avoid losing the previous version of a valid SH3D file in case of error.
• Replaced JRE 6u17 by JRE 6u18 in Sweet Home 3D installers bundled with Java.
• Other minor bugs fixes and enhancements.

What's New in version 2.2:

• Modified zoom behavior in the plan to zoom in the center of the displayed zone.
• Fixed a bug that happened with 3D models imported in furniture catalog from a zip file.
• Fixed a bug that reset rights on saved SH3D files.
• Fixed a bug that prevented to drag and drop catalog furniture without selecting it first under Mac OS X.
• Fixed a computing bug on walls with almost equal ordinates.
• Fixed a bug that prevented to display correctly the texture of sloped walls.
• Added support for Linux 64 bits.
• Improved API to simplify the creation of customized versions of Sweet Home 3D.
• Added Bulgarian localization written by Valentin Laskov.
• Replaced JRE 6u16 by JRE 6u17 in Sweet Home 3D installers bundled with Java.
• Updated iText to version 2.1.7 (caution: from version 5.0.0, iText isn't distributed under GNU LGPL license anymore).
• Other minor bugs fixes and enhancements.

What's New in version 2.1:

• As the Online version available on sweethome3d.eu is now able to save homes in the private space of the users registered to the site, its applet was improved to be able to:
  • save user preferences on server,
  • export a home at SH3D format to edit it with the downloadable version,
  • follow modifications made in the edited home to avoid the user changing browser page without saving it,
  • display the memory amount used by Java in the browser status bar.
• Improved loading performances of a SH3D file.
• Renamed print process as Sweet Home 3D followed by home name.
• Fixed a bug in photo-realistic rendering that displayed black polygons around a home.
• Fixed a bug that prevented home plan to be rendered correctly when walls were created with a double-click in a room which contains two points very close to each other.
• Fixed a bug that caused memory leaks when importing 3D models and when creating photos.
• Fixed a bug under Mac OS X that made menus and their shortcuts disappear after displaying Preferences or About dialog boxes.
• Reduced maximum used memory from 1024 MB to 512 MB to avoid could not create the Java virtual machine errors under Windows.
• Replaced JRE 6u14 by JRE 6u16 in Sweet Home 3D installers bundled with Java.
• Added Japanese localization written by Takahiro Sato.
• Added Vietnamese localization of the user interface written by Phu`ng Lê Tu?n.
• Other minor bugs fixes and enhancements.