To edit Sweet Home 3D preferences, choose Sweet Home 3D > Preferences... under Mac OS X or File > Preferences... under
other systems.

In the preferences pane, you can choose the Language used in Sweet Home 3D user interface and the Unit used
to draw the rulers and grid of the home plan, and to display lengths and areas.
The Category folders and the Searchable list radio buttons
let you choose how the furniture catalog should be displayed in each
Sweet Home 3D window.
The 3D navigation arrows check box allows to display arrow buttons
that will help you to navigate in the 3D
view.
The Magnetism check box enables or disables the magnetism used
in the home plan during walls drawing
and furniture placing.
The Rulers check box allows to make the rulers around the plan
visible or invisible.
The Grid check box allows to make the grid in the plan visible
or invisible.
The Catalog icons and Top view radio buttons let you choose
how the furniture should be drawn in the plan (see images below).
The Monochrome and Floor color or texture radio buttons
let you choose whether rooms should be drawn in plan filled with the
color or texture you chose for their floor, or with a grey color (printed
as white).
The Wall pattern in plan combo box lets you choose the pattern
used to fill walls in plan.
The New walls thickness value sets the thickness of all the walls that will be created once the preferences
pane will be closed.
The New walls height value
sets the height of all the walls that will be created once the preferences pane will
be closed.
The value of the field associated to the Save home data for recovery
check box sets the delay in minutes between two save operations of the
opened homes. These homes are automatically saved in private files,
that will be used for recovery purpose at the next launch of Sweet Home 3D
if the program crashes.
Finally, the Reset the display of tips button resets the answers
you gave to the check box Do not display this tip again shown
in the tips dialog boxes displayed when you click on some tools. This
means that all the dialog boxes where you selected this check box will
appear again.
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Default plan rendering with catalog icons,
monochrome floors and walls filled with a hatch pattern |
Plan rendering with top view furniture icons,
floor colors, and walls filled with black color |
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