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Version history for Sweet Home 3D

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Changes for v6.3 - v6.4

Improved resolution scale management in the plan for HiDPI screens under Java 8.
Fixed a bug in redoing dimension line resizing.
Added IDs to home objects which may be modified.
Added support for editing home plans in Sweet Home 3D JS with the ability to save modified homes on a JSP server.
Fixed an issue in Sweet Home 3D JS Viewer which prevented touch management to work correctly under iOS.
Improved drawing order of transparent objects in Sweet Home 3D JS Viewer.
Other minor bugs fixes and enhancements.

Changes for v6.2 - v6.3

•Added the Select object / Toggle selection menu item in the contextual menu of the 3D view to select or deselect the object under the mouse cursor with a right click.
•Enabled reordering selected items in the furniture list with a drag-and-drop.
• Added temporary dimension lines along a resized wall.
•Added temporary dimension lines during the move of a room point with a diagonal dimension to allow triangulation.
• Increased the maximum scale in the plan.
• Added support for math expressions in values entered in editable plan tooltips.
•Optimized the handling of 3D models made of repeated small parts like some trees found on 3D Warehouse.
• Improved the management of Sweet Home 3D window size after opening a file saved with its window maximized under macOS.
•Fixed some computing issues on 3D polylines with very large coordinates and wall sides with a null length.
•Fixed double actions provoked by shortcuts on some non Latin keyboards.
• Fixed an issue where some menu items didn't appear after a right click in the plan.
•Fixed color setting on lines of 3D models in Sweet Home 3D JS Viewer.
•Other minor bugs fixes and enhancements.

Changes for v6.1.2 - v6.2

Fixed a bug which prevented from modifying a piece of furniture in Virtual visit mode, after adding that piece to a group in Aerial view mode.
Fixed the totals update after a price change of a piece belonging to a furniture group.
Fixed a bug which prevented from changing a textured material to white color.
Fixed horizontal and vertical alignment while moving room or furniture names with the mouse and the Shift key pressed.
Added Adjustable searchable tag to find more easily an adjustable 3D model among the 87 available ones.
After Select all at all levels menu item is chosen, exported all selected items to OBJ format whether they belong to a level visible in the 3D view or not.
Other minor bugs fixes and enhancements.

Changes for v6.0 - v6.1.2

•Managed the selection toggling of an item in the furniture list without losing the selection of other items in the plan.
•Optimized the cache management of the furniture top views in the plan for similar furniture.
•Fixed the location of the top view of a piece of furniture in its selection rectangle at large zoom factors.
•Used more precise text widths to correctly align multi line texts.
•Fixed how the application is displayed in languages oriented from right to left.
•Fixed wrong parsing of some math expressions when the selected length unit is not cm.
•Fixed 3D offscreen rendering under Windows when setting Z-buffer depth size is not supported.
•Removed wall parts under openings higher than the top of a trapezoidal wall.
•Added support for mirrors on hinge and rail with the sweethome3d_window_mirror_on_hinge_ / sweethome3d_window_mirror_on_rail_ new shape prefixes.
•Accepted spaces in the texture image path of map_Kd items in MTL files.
•Added information about the memory used by the program in About dialog box.
•Improved the user interface of the Furniture Library Editor and Textures Library Editor when used with HiDPI screens under Windows and Linux.
•Added a macOS application bundled with Oracle Java 8 in the portable version.
•Replaced JRE 8u181 by JRE 8u202 in Sweet Home 3D installers bundledwith Java.
• Other minor bugs fixes and enhancements.

Changes for v5.7 - v6.0

Added the ability to rotate and slide openings and lights.
Added a mannequin which can be articulated.
Replaced the 24 3D models contributed under LAL license in the default catalog by new models under GNU GPL / CC-BY license.
Updated rotating and sliding parts in the 3D model of doors, windows and furniture to support new rotation and translation capabilities.
Added price management with currency choice and optional sales tax in preferences pane, prices and sales tax fields in furniture modification pane, total prices below the home furniture list and new columns to display price information in the list.
Added the ability to calculate math expression in numeric fields.
Added Plan > Flip horizontally and Plan > Flip vertically menu items.
Added support for multi line and text alignment in text modification pane.
Added X offset and Y offset spinner in texture modification pane to shift textures.
Added Dash offset spinner in polyline modification pane to shift the pattern of dashed polylines.
Allowed polylines to be displayed in the 3D view.
Added an option in 3D view modification pane to view background image
in 3D view at ground level .
Added Plan > Make level the only viewable one and Plan > Make all levels viewable menu items.
Displayed level menu items in a separate contextual menu bound to level tabs.
Enabled multi selection of materials in materials modification pane to change them by group.
Managed Ctrl modifier (alt or option under macOS) to resize the selected piece of furniture only along its width or its depth.
Added a new indicator in the middle of walls to easily change their curve.
Displayed wall arc length in the tool tip associated to Arc extent field in wall modification pane.
Allowed sloping walls to have a minimum height equal to 0.
Added 2.40:1 image ratio and updated video formats.
Saved column widths of the furniture list to restore them at home opening.
Made underground objects of a group individually dig the ground.
Increased Z-buffer depth to 24 bit when supported to simplify the management of 3D view frustrum.
Ensured equirectangular images are correctly mapped in the 3D view when used as sky texture.
Forced CSV export encoding to UTF-8 on all systems and added com.eteks.sweethome3d.CSVEncoding system property to set the encoding to another value for backward compatibility.
Checked SH3D files start by ZIP magic number after a file is saved to warn users for rare fail cases.
Added init method to Plugin class called after the creation of a plugin instance.
Fixed angle of grouped furniture according to the angle of leading selected piece.
Fixed furniture and texture libraries loading under Java 10.
Improved HiDPI detection with Java 8/10 under Windows / Linux / macOS to automatically scale the user interface.
Updated Java 3D version to 1.6.1 to support HiDPI screens under Java 10.
Optimized 3D walls update when doors and windows are modified.
Added com.eteks.sweethome3d.j3d.drawingModeEnabled system property to enable drawing mode without the need to recompile the program.
Added sunjce_provider.jar to installation programs to allow https access.
Added architecture 32/64 bit radio buttons in Windows installer and selected 32 bit by default under Windows 10.
Added support for ARM64 architecture by configuring architecture to 32 bit and Java 3D 1.5.2 running with DirectX.
Upgraded Inno Setup to its Unicode version for easier support of non Latin Windows installers.
Bundled macOS installer with Oracle Java 8 and added an other installer based on Apple Java 6 for Mac OS X 10.6/10.7 users.
Replaced JRE 8u162 by JRE 8u181 in Sweet Home 3D installers bundled with Java.
Other minor bugs fixes and enhancements.

Changes for v5.6 - v5.7

Added a preview component to file choosers used to select an image under Windows and Linux.
Managed user defined furniture properties added to catalogs read by Sweet Home 3D and read/saved by Furniture Library Editor.
Fixed the visibility of horizontally rotated objects at upper levels.
Fixed the size in the plan of a copied-pasted object which is horizontally rotated.
Fixed a bug that prevented to group unresizable furniture or read a SH3D file saved with a previous version which contained such objects.
Fixed the display of furniture catalog and furniture list when scrolling under Mac OS X 10.13 with Java 6.
Fixed Window menu management under Mac OS X with Java 8.
Replaced JRE 8u152 by JRE 8u162 in Sweet Home 3D installers bundled with Java.
Converted CVS repository on SourceForge.net to SVN (sorry for the dead links to sweethome3d.cvs.sf.net server that this change implies).
Other minor bugs fixes and enhancements.

Changes for v5.5.2 - v5.6

•Fixed a bug that prevented to export to CSV format.
•Fixed the size of furniture in subgroups when their parent group is resized.
•Fixed wrongly computed threshold of doors larger than the side of a room.
•Improved printing performances under Mac OS X with Java 8u152.
•Replaced JRE 8u144 by JRE 8u152 in Sweet Home 3D installers bundled with Java.
•Other minor bugs fixes and enhancements.

Changes for v5.5 - v5.5.2

•Fixed photo creation at the two lowest quality levels when two monitors are used.
•Fixed how lights in groups are rendered at the two best quality levels in the photo creation tool.
•Upgraded Java 3D to version 1.6.0 for the Mac OS X distributions running under Java 6 (Mac OS X 10.6.8 to 10.13), leaving the JAR Executable as the only version able to run Sweet Home 3D under Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5, and/or PowerPC.
•Other minor bugs fixes and enhancements.

Changes for v5.4 - v5.5

Made doors and windows always cut out the both sides of the walls to which they are added.
Prevented opened doors to be deformed when their property doorOrWindowWidthDepthDeformable in a furniture library is set to false.
Ensured walls created with a double-click on a room don't overlap existing ones.
Added Plan > Join walls menu item to join selected walls at their intersection or join aligned walls broken in two parts.
Added the ability to rotate furniture around a horizontal axis with new spinners in furniture modification pane and a new indicator available on a horizontally rotated object (except for doors, windows, staircases and groups).
Added the horizontallyRotatable property in furniture libraries to prevent some models to rotate around an horizontal axis.
Added the ability to set the scale of a texture in texture modification pane.
Replaced 0° / 45° / 90° radio buttons used to rotate a texture by a spinner.
Allowed decimals in spinners used to enter angles.
Saved recently used textures in user profile to restore them at program start.
Added Creator text field in the furniture and texture import wizards.
Added the optional Creator column in the furniture list to display the creators of the 3D model of an object and the textures applied on it.
Displayed the size of the uncompressed files of a 3D model in furniture catalog tool tips and in the new optional Model size column available in the furniture list.
Added an option in preferences pane to choose the size in pixels of furniture icons in the plan, when viewed from top.
Added in preferences pane the Select visitor in plan at 3D move option, which can be unselected to prevent selectioning and showing the virtual visitor in the plan at each move in the 3D view.
Added Ctrl M shortcut to display preferences pane under Windows and Linux.
Added Ctrl Alt M (cmd alt M under macOS) shortcut to display the modification pane of the virtual visitor.
Added a triangle and five other new objects in the default furniture catalog.
Released also under CC-BY license the 76 3D models of the default catalog which are available under GNU GPL.
Added File > New from demo menu item with 9 demos (5 apartments and 4 houses) distributed under GNU GPL and CC-BY license.
Improved how front and back clip distances of frustrum are computed in the 3D view.
Fixed a crash of the program under Windows 10 Creator update when a file dialog box was displayed.
Fixed an issue where some textures were displayed upside down.
Fixed the management of the wall sides color / texture when changed with the room modification pane.
Fixed the location of 3D models with a non-cuboid shape when rotations applied at importation are not a multiple of 90° (objects in existing plan are not updated to prevent breaking compatibility).
Set a default size of 100x100 cm for texture borrowed from the 3D model of an other object.
Replaced the applet available in Sweet Home 3D Viewer by the HTML5 canvas of Sweet Home 3D JS Viewer to let users navigate in the 3D view of a SH3D file with any web browser compatible with WebGL, including under iOS and Android.
Added /os.arch=x86, /j3d.version=1.5.2 and /j3d.version=1.6 parameters to Windows installer to force the installation of the 32 bit version of Sweet Home 3D under a 64 bit system and/or choose a given version of Java 3D.
Replaced JRE 8u51 or 8u121 by JRE 8u144 in Sweet Home 3D installers bundled with Java.
Other minor bugs fixes and enhancements.

Changes for v5.3 - v5.4

Set the minimum value of visitor's field of view to 2°.
Fixed wrongly displayed rectangular textures when rotated.
Fixed a bug that prevented to close the Untitled window after opening a file under Mac OS X.
Fixed a bug that applied the resolution scale factor too many times on user interface.
Fixed a bug that prevented to move the points of a polyline.
Replaced JRE 8u112 by JRE 8u121 in Sweet Home 3D installers bundled with Java under Linux.
Other minor bugs fixes and enhancements.

Changes for v5.2 - v5.3

Ensured that the selected items are visible in the plan after using Zoom in or Zoom out tools.
Changed how textures on borders of room floors are displayed so they never look distorted.
Displayed walls with half transparent pattern while drawing them or while placing doors and windows, when a background image is used.
Initialized the scale and origin of background images imported at new levels with the values of the background image available at the closest level.
Improved the mouse management of the virtual visitor in plan at small scales.
Added a Home.xml entry validated by the DTD SweetHome3D.dtd to SH3D files, and added file association for future SH3X files.
Added HomeObject super class to let developers manage their own properties on home objects.
Copied texture image files at OBJ format export instead of generating new ones.
Fixed the area computation of rooms drawn with a hole in their middle.
Fixed blocking errors that happened for textured floors in the plan with Java 7/8 under Ubuntu.
Fixed the color of menu items under Ubuntu and better drag and drop support under Linux using Java 8.
Upgraded Java 3D version to 1.6.0 fcs / JOGL 2.3.2 for Windows and Linux versions, and for the Mac OS X version run with Java 7/8.
Displayed Java 3D version in About dialog box.
Added Sweet Home 3D icon in installation folder under Linux.
Replaced JRE 8u74 by JRE 8u51 in Sweet Home 3D installers bundled with Java under Windows.
Replaced JRE 6u45 by JRE 8u112 in Sweet Home 3D installers bundled with Java under Linux.
Other minor bugs fixes and enhancements.

Changes for v5.1 - v5.2

with various corrections and a new logo

Changes for v5.0 - v5.1

Fixed a regression that prevented to easily select an object placed in a selected room.
Fixed a bug that generated wrong SVG files for plans containing texts with the default font.
Fixed a bug that could prevent to reopen a SH3D file saved with its furniture list sorted on Color or Texture columns.
Removed unwanted surfaces displayed at the ground in 3D and matching objects at n-2 levels under the ground.
Fixed wrongly computed cutout of staircases in the upper floor for some layouts.
Fixed some 3D rendering issues on rooms at ground level under Mac OS X with Java 6.
Fixed the management of icons and models referenced more than once in SH3T and SH3L file edited with the Furniture Library Editor or the Textures Library Editor.
Updated German, Japanese and Swedish help pages.
Upgraded Java 3D to version 1.6.0-pre12 / JOGL 2.3.2 beta for the Mac OS X version run with Java 7 / 8.
Replaced JRE 8u51 by JRE 8u60 in Sweet Home 3D installers bundled with Java under Windows.
Other minor bugs fixes and enhancements.

Changes for v4.5 - v4.6

Fixed printing of textured floors under Mac OS X with Java 7 / 8.
Fixed an issue on the 3D view displayed in a separate window on a second screen under Mac OS X with Java 7 / 8.
Fixed a crash in the furniture import wizard on some configurations running Mac OS X with Java 7 / 8.
Upgraded Java 3D version to 1.6.0-pre11 / JOGL 2.2.4 for the Mac OS X version run with Java 7 / 8.
Increased max memory used by Sweet Home 3D under Windows 64 bit.
Updated certificate used to signed programs.
Other minor bugs fixes and enhancements.

Changes for v4.4 - v4.5

Replaced the Loader3DS library by a new one that better interprets colors, transparency and subparts placing of 3D models at 3DS format (caution: the customization of materials set on furniture at 3DS format in previous versions of Sweet Home 3D will be lost).
Increased to 50 the maximum count of stored points of view.
Added a margin of error to determine whether a piece of furniture overlaps an other one, when a user wants to place it on the top of the second one.
In the furniture list, appended an icon to the name of each piece with a defined information property, and displayed this information in a popup after a click on the icon.
Restored the previous size of the textures choice dialog box when resized.
Cleared search filter in the textures choice dialog box after a texture is imported.
Forced format for sizes exported to CSV format to display decimals instead of inch fractions.
Added an additional spacing to columns of furniture list at print time under Windows for better rendering.
Fixed a bug that could interpret SH3D files with correct imported zipped 3D models as damaged files.
Fixed a bug that prevented side by side alignment of superimposed pieces of furniture to work.
Fixed wrong computation of wall corner on some horizontal walls.
Ensured that the order in which pieces of furniture were added is kept after grouping them.
Fixed the management of mouse cursor during drag and drop operations in the catalog.
Delayed the disposal of the default home to avoid Java 3D fatal error in Mac OS X full screen mode.
Updated Spanish, Japanese, Portuguese Brazilian, Russian and Polish localizations of the help.
Other minor bugs fixes and enhancements.

Changes for v4.3 - v4.4

Added a search textfield to filter textures and a list of the recently used textures in the textures choice dialog box.
Added texture rotation support.
Made the selected material blink in the 3D preview of the Furniture materials modification dialog box.
Improved text fields used to edit lengths when Foot/Inch/Fraction unit is active.
Added Edit > Select all at all levels menu item, with feedback in level tabs showing level names outlined with selection color under Java 6 and higher.
Replaced Select object menu by Toggle selection menu in plan contextual menu when Shift key is pressed.
Added dropOnTopElevation property to the pieces of catalog furniture to place objects on furniture at a preferred elevation (to simplify the layout of objects upon or below shelves, chairs, trees...).
Added Furniture > Reset elevation menu item to recompute the preferred elevation of the selected furniture placed on other pieces.
Added KMZ extension to the list of file extensions supported in the furniture import wizard.
Added support for sideways moves in the 3D view with the keyboard using Alt + left arrow and Alt + right arrow keys.
Avoided data duplicates in SH3D files during saving.
Checked available disk space before saving under Java 6 and higher.
Added an option to repair damaged SH3D files with the ability to retrieve corrupted data from Sweet Home 3D catalogs, remove damaged 3D models and images, or to display them in red.
Took into account texture image transparency for the ground texture in the 3D view.
Improved texture transparency management in SunFlow.
Fixed an issue in SunFlow parameters that could generate some black square dots.
Added support for import from SH3D files in the Online version, checking which 3D models and textures are available on the server to reduce home data length saved on the server.
Added a Delete button in the Open dialog box of the Online version to delete homes saved on server.
Checked home data length doesn't exceed the maximum allowed on the server before saving it in the Online version.
Added camera, selectableCameras, level and selectableLevels parameters to the Sweet Home 3D Viewer to let the user select some stored points of view and home levels.
Added activateCameraSwitchKey parameter to disable space bar in Sweet Home 3D Viewer.
Added the ability to edit the 3D model of a piece of furniture in the Furniture Library Editor.
Fixed issues in the dependencies of a DAE file when they use spaces, % and # characters.
Fixed an issue on texture coordinates computed at doors and windows intersection for walls with an angle different of 0° or 90° in the plan.
Fixed texture coordinates management on 3D model previewed in materials editor for small models.
Checked length of auto completion strings list saved in preferences doesn't pass the maximum allowed value.
Refused to import the ZIP file of a 3D model containing entries that are not readable.
Fixed 3D view management to avoid it remaining grey under Windows with Java 7/8.
Increased the maximum memory to 2 GB used in the Java Web Start version run under Windows and Linux 64 bit systems.
Displayed the maximum memory set for Java in the About dialog box.
Updated English, French, German, Swedish, Hungarian and Bulgarian help pages.
Upgraded Java 3D to version 1.6.0pre10 / JOGL 2.1.5 for the Mac OS X version run with Java 7.
Other minor bugs fixes and enhancements.

Changes for v4.2 - v4.3

Fixed bugs that prevented the 3D view to be displayed when it was saved as detached, on one screen and multiples screens.
Fixed a font issue that didn't display correctly Chinese text in the plan under Windows and Linux.
Fixed a bug that prevented to elevate the camera in Sweet Home 3D Viewer applet.
Fixed a bug that didn't initialize the Staircase check box in the furniture import wizard when an imported 3D model is modified.
Fixed a bug that prevented to display correctly some floor rooms in the 3D view when they overlap.
Fixed the display of texts in catalog furniture tool tips under Java 5.
Fixed a bug that froze the program for some colored background images under Mac OS X with Java 7.
Fixed some unexpected behaviors when furniture is dragged from the catalog under Mac OS X with Java 7.
Improved performances of the 3D view in the Java Web Start and JAR executable versions run under Mac OS X with Java 7.
Accepted % and # characters in dependencies of OBJ and DAE files.
Created a 32-bit / 64-bit Windows installer which installs the 64-bit version of Sweet Home under 64-bit Windows, and its 32-bit version otherwise.
Displayed the 32-bit / 64-bit data model of the running version in the About dialog box.
Other minor bugs fixes and enhancements.

Changes for v4.1 - v4.2

Added support for the cut out of non-rectangular doors and windows placed in walls.
Added Zoom in and Zoom out tools in the background image import wizard to help enter image scale with more precision.
Added vertical and horizontal constraints when shift key is pressed to the scale line displayed in the second step of the background image import wizard.
Improved the search engine in the furniture catalog to support accentuated letters comparison and multiple criteria (separate criteria by spaces).
Drawn stair cases at a higher level in the plan when the elevation of its top and the elevation of the level are equal.
Double checked if images used as a texture and flagged as transparent contains at least a transparent pixel.
Fixed a bug that displayed incorrectly floor rooms in the 3D view when they partially overlap.
Fixed a bug that prevented to display some parts of a room ceiling with a complex shape smaller that the upper floor room.
Fixed a bug that didn't render correctly mirrored windows at the two best quality levels of the photo creation tool.
Fixed a bug that auto completed wrongly text fields at the initialization of their dialog box.
Fixed a bug that prevented to create videos in Java Web Start and Online versions run with Java 7u25 or superior.
Fixed a bug that prevented to export to SVG format under Java 7 / Linux.
Fixed a bug that prevented the 3D view to be displayed afterwards when it was not visible at file opening under Windows.
Fixed a bug that didn't place in front the window of big projects when they are reopened.
Ensured that maximized windows are restored correctly when reopened under Mac OS X.
Added to the jar files of the Online version the required attributes that avoid some security warnings under latest Java version.
Added the Merge tool in the Furniture Library Editor and the Textures Library Editor to merge the current library with an other one.
Added text fields in the Furniture Library Editor to enter the Keywords/Tags associated to a piece of furniture, and to customize the cut out shape of doors and windows.
Added support for Java Web Start and JAR executable versions run under Mac OS X with Java 7.
Updated keywords in the default furniture catalog and furniture libraries to simplify the search of similar objects.
Other minor bugs fixes and enhancements in Sweet Home 3D, the Furniture Library Editor and the Textures Library Editor.

Changes for v4.0 - v4.1

Optimized Export to OBJ format feature for big exports.
Moved the aerial view point of view closer to the first piece of furniture added to an empty home.
Added support for full screen mode under Mac OS X.
Fixed a printing bug that didn't always show the expected pages.
Updated the Online version to ensure it won't display an additional security warning when run with latest Java version.
Increased the default maximum memory used by the program to 640 MB, and made this size grow up to 1024 MB for Windows 32 bit installer version according to the available RAM in the system.
Fixed a bug in Sweet Home 3D, the portable version of Sweet Home 3D (119 MB), the Furniture Library Editor (12,3 MB) and the Textures Library Editor (784 kB) that prevented the deletion of some temporary files under Windows at program end.
Automatically deleted the private working folder of Sweet Home 3D at program end when it stops normally.
Accepted absolute paths in com.eteks.sweethome3d.tools.temporarySubFolder system property to simplify the way to specify where the private working folder of Sweet Home 3D should be.
Added com.eteks.sweethome3d.swing.fixedPrintMargin system property to be able to force a print margin (expressed in centimeters) when customized margins entered in page format dialog box aren't taken into account.
Fixed a bug that kept displaying the available updates of a library even once it wasinstalled.
Fixed an issue that prevented program launch when the name of imported libraries contained a very long string of digits.
Updated Spanish help pages.
Replaced JRE 6u43 by JRE 6u45 in Sweet Home 3D installers bundled with Java.
Other minor bugs fixes and enhancements.

Changes for v3.7 - v4.0

Used the Shift key to keep objects moved in the plan aligned along horizontal or vertical axis, and changed the key used to toggle magnetism setting to Alt key under Windows, cmd key under Mac OS X and Shift + Alt key under Linux.
Added Materials option in the furniture modification pane to edit the various materials (colors or textures) of the selected furniture.
Improved the color chooser with the ability to choose a color among RAL and Creative Commons palettes, with a pipette tool or in a list displaying colors recently chosen.
Added options in the room modification pane to change the color or the texture of the wall sides surrounding the modified room.
Added Pattern in plan and Top color in 3D view options in the wall modification pane to change the pattern used to draw a wall in the plan and the color used to paint the top of a wall in the 3D view.
Replaced Wall pattern in plan option by New walls pattern in plan option in the user preferences pane.
Added 3 new wall patterns.
Added 3D view > Delete points of view menu item to delete all or some of the stored points of view.
Added 3D view > Create photos at points of view menu item to create photos at a subset of the stored points of view.
Renamed the existing Inch unit as Foot/Inch/Fraction, made it always display the closest 1/8 inch fraction for lengths shown in the furniture table and in the plan, and removed decimals for areas in square feet.
Added to user preferences the Inch/Decimals unit able to display decimals of an inch for lengths shown in the furniture table and in the plan, and for areas in square feet.
Added Furniture > Import texture menu item to improve the access to the texture import wizard.
Added Furniture > Export to CSV format... menu item.
Set 3D view > Display in separate window / Display in main window menu items shortcut to Ctrl + Alt + Y (cmd + alt + Y under Mac OS X) and enabled program shortcuts in the separated 3D view.
Added an option to choose whether only the selected items in plan or all home 3D items should be exported to OBJ format.
Added a Check updates at program launch check box and a Check update button to user preferences pane to get information about the available updates of the program and SH3F/SH3T/SH3L/SH3P files.
In Aerial view mode, set the height of the rotation center at half height of the visible items in the 3D view.
Added Aerial view centered on selection option to preferences pane to center the 3D view on the selected objects in plan when Aerial view mode is active.
Added a Libraries… button to the About dialog box to display all libraries and plug-ins used by Sweet Home 3D.
Allowed parameterization of the SunFlow rendering engine with properties retrieved from resource properties file or from System properties.
Added texture coordinates to the Box and Cylinder 3D models of the default catalog and set a different material name for each of their face to be able to edit the color or texture of each face individually.
Reduced line thickness in prints.
Set Top view and Floor color or texture as the options at first launch for Furniture icons in plan and Room rendering in plan user preferences under Windows and Mac OS X.
Improved the computing of the elevation of a round ceiling close to a round slopping wall.
Fixed a regression appeared in version 3.0 that could prevent sloping ceilings to be correctly computed.
Fixed a bug that could save files impossible to reopen and without error message.
Ensured window can be resized once opened when its 3D view is detached under Mac OS X.
Accepted white space in MTL files name.
Added support in Online version for Java 7 under Mac OS X with Java 3D 1.6.0-pre7 / JOGL 2.0-rc11 libraries.
Updated English, French, German, Swedish, Hungarian and Bulgarian help pages.
Replaced JRE 6u37 by JRE 6u43 in Sweet Home 3D installers bundled with Java.
Other minor bugs fixes and enhancements.

Changes for v3.5 - v3.6

Added the ability to rotate texts, the name of furniture and the name and area of rooms in the plan.
Improved alignment magnetism of a piece of furniture when its side is aligned along a wall.
Stored last folders selected in file dialog choosers for each content type handled by Sweet Home 3D.
Improved furniture catalogs loading at language change and during furniture libraries importation.
Fixed lens type used in video generation for the two best quality levels.
Forced blue color for selections drawn over the imported image in the background image wizard when default selection color is not enough colorful.
Improved selection color management in plan under Mac OS X.
Allowed homonyms among furniture and texture names in catalogs.
Refused to open a corrupted SH3D file when it contains some unreachable furniture or textures.
Fixed a bug that blocked program launch if some files to recover were invalid.
Signed Windows and Mac OS X applications and installers with the certified digital signature of Sweet Home 3D developer (i.e. Emmanuel Puybaret).
Replaced JRE 6u32 by JRE 6u35 in Sweet Home 3D installers bundled with Java.
Other minor bugs fixes and enhancements.

Changes for v3.4 - v3.5

Added Furniture > Align side by side menu item to align selected furniture on the sides and on the back side of the first selected piece.
Added Furniture > Align on front side / Align on back side / Align on left side / Align on right side menu items to align selected furniture on the front / back / left / right side of the first selected piece.
Added Furniture > Distribute horizontally / Distribute vertically menu items to distribute selected furniture accordingly.
Added Align or distribute furniture menu in plan popup menu to grant access to these features in the online version.
Added a magnetism behavior during the drag and drop of a piece in the plan, when its borders approach the borders of an other piece of furniture.
Improved magnetism of furniture along walls (including round walls) with anti collision system.
Made zoom in the plan centered on mouse cursor when zoom is done with mouse wheel while Ctrl key is pressed (cmd under Mac OS X).
Added 3D view > Modify virtual visitor menu item to edit visitor location and angles.
Added Adjust eyes elevation according to selected level option in virtual visitor modification pane (selected by default for new homes).
Reversed rotation direction towards up / down in aerial view mode.
Made ground color vary according to light power setting (the ground color of your existing home files will be automatically updated and this might lead to some small changes in rendering).
Reused staircase cut out shape to compute the hole of a ramp in the ground.
Added support for element in Collada files to get a better default size of imported 3D models at this format.
Added move mouse cursor for objects move in the plan and improved cursors look.
Added a button to access preferences in the tool bar (except under Mac OS X where the cmd + , shortcut is well known and the tool bar already large).
Fixed a bug that froze application when a window displaying a 3D view previously saved as hidden was enlarged under Mac OS X.
Split HomeController class in HomeController + HomePluginController classes to grant access to controllers in a plug-in (if you created a derived version of Sweet Home 3D with a direct subclass or an instantiation of HomeController class, you should just replace com.eteks.sweethome3d.viewcontroller.HomeController class by com.eteks.sweethome3d.plugin.HomePluginController class).
Updated German / Spanish / Brazilian-Portuguese / Swedish help.
Russian version of the user interface reviewed and updated by Андрей Прищенко.
Changed the font of Sweet Home 3D logo (thanks to Julien De Méyère).
Replaced JRE 6u30 by JRE 6u32 in Sweet Home 3D installers bundled with Java.
Other minor bugs fixes and enhancements.

Changes for v3.3 - v3.4

Added Plan > Add level / Modify level / Delete level menu items to support multiple levels with possible intermediate levels and/or levels at negative elevation.
Added 3D view > Display all levels / Display selected level menu items.
Added the New floors thickness field in preferences pane.
Added a new property for staircases in furniture catalog to define the shape used to cut out the ceiling and the floor of upper levels when they intersect with a staircase.
Added a Staircase check box in Import furniture wizard and in Furniture Library Editor.
Reused the walls transparency value to make transparent floors and ceilings of upper levels as well.
Enabled the virtual visitor to go below elevation 0 to visit underground levels.
Improved ground management to be able to handle elevations up to 100m without seeing a black line at the horizon.
Added a button in preferences pane to import language libraries.
Improved drawing magnetism of walls and rooms.
Increased magnetism sensitivity.
Added Select object submenu in the contextual menu of the plan that will let the user select an object among the superimposed ones at the point where he right clicked.
Added the ability to directly change the visibility of piece of furniture by clicking on its visible check box in the furniture table.
Added support for auto completion in the name text fields displayed modification panes (suggested texts comes from previous entered texts and are saved in preferences).
Added the ability to fine tune the orientation of a 3D model at the second step of its importation.
Improved performances when using textures.
Added support for unsigned applets when run without 3D feature and furniture/textures listed in plugin files.
Fixed drag and support from catalog to plan or furniture list in applets running with Plugin2 under Mac OS X or with OpenJDK under Linux.
Fixed a bug that prevented to view dialog boxes placed out of the main screen after a configuration change in a multi screen environment.
Fixed a bug that prevented to open Furniture import wizard on an screen different from the main screen, or to view the online version in a browser placed out of the main screen.
Fixed a bug that wrongly shifted the texture applied on an object with a 3D model file not placed at the origin (this bug fix will be applied only to texture changes made from this version to ensure existing designs won't look different when a circumvent tip was used).
Fixed a bug that displayed a texture as inverted when applied to the left side of a wall.
Fixed a bug that reset 3D view aspect ratio in photo creation dialog box after a camera change.
Updated English, French, German and Bulgarian help pages.
Replaced JRE 6u26 by JRE 6u30 in Sweet Home 3D installers bundled with Java.
Other minor bugs fixes and enhancements.

Changes for v3.2 - v3.3

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.

Changes for v3.1 - v3.2

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.

Changes for v2.2 - v3.1

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.
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.
Fixed bugs that prevented overlapping floors from being correctly displayed.
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.
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 blocked SunFlow rendering engine when a 3D model contained 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.
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.
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 light brightness (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.
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 new dimensions with the keyboard once the Enter key has been pressed.
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.

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