Hello! First of all, I'd like to give thanks for this application existing at all. It seems to be the only free and open source software of this type and for that I am grateful.
My project is to create an accurate plan of my house. The issue is that my house is old, and many of the walls are of varying sizes. After 10 minutes, I realized that creating walls then the room is a bad idea from measurements, since after adding wall thickness you now have a smaller room unless you add half the thickness of the wall to your measurements (which is not happening with wall thickness like 5(3/8)").
Okay, so the solution is to create the room, then add walls. Second problem, when I would like to decrease the thickness of one side of wall, it does not cover the floor properly and needs to be moved. However, the wall border does not snap to the room border. I tried to get around this by manually adjusting the adjacent walls' length but that also requires some crazy math since the "length" of the wall goes to the point at which it intercepts the connecting wall which I'm fairly certain will require the Pythagorean theorem to determine accurately.
As a separate issue, I can see why snapping to grid doesn't make sense, but it would be so great if things could snap to dimensions.
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Re: Some issues with walls
Sorry but I fear you'll have to spend more time using Pythagorean theorem if moving walls with the mouse or the keyboard isn't enough precise for you. Remember that you can disable magnetism to move freely wall ends and you can zoom to view more details.
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Emmanuel Puybaret, Sweet Home 3D developer
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Re: Some issues with walls
I'm modeling my brick townhouse which was built in 1957. It has plaster walls. Nothing is straight. Even the ceiling height differs from corner to corner. I decided just to use the average dimensions for everything and build it as if blueprint perfect. No one will tell looking at screenshots or anything. Nothing made by laborers and homebuilders is perfect. Even the Greeks built curves (on purpose) into the Parthenon in Athens.
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