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How to resize entire floorplan?
Hello,
Newbie here, love this program!
I've drawn a plan of my 3rd gr-grandfather's farmhouse, but was guessing at the dimensions. I now know the approximate length and width and would like to reduce/resize what I have.
Is there a tool to reduce the overall size without redrawing every wall, window and door? For example, I need to go from 48ft to 40ft. on the long side.
I didn't find anything in the user guide.
I have v7.2, so looked at "Modify Dimension", but it remains grayed out no matter what I do.
Also have seen the "Auto Dimensioning" plugin, but not sure that's applicable.
(What exactly is SweetHome's definition of a "dimension"?)
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Re: How to resize entire floorplan?
There is a function "Resize all selected items" which is part of the Advanced Edit plugin if I'm not mistaken.
First install the Plugin Manager which makes it much easier to install and update all other plugins. Read about it here: http://daniels118.altervista.org/sh3d/pluginmanager/ and download it here: https://sourceforge.net/p/sweethome3d/plug-ins/44/ . Use it to install the Advanced Edit plugin which is one of the essential plugins for Sweet Home 3D. After install and restart you have extra icons in the menu bar and one of them is the "Resize all selected items". Select everything you want to resize and click on the menu icon. Then you can set how much you want to resize.
A word of warning using this method: Not everything might resize as you want it. To be honest, the function is not meant to resize a whole design. In your case I would just start with redrawing/resizing the base plan (walls, floors, etc.) and then move and fill in the rest because most furniture will have to remain the same size as was before. It's more work but the result will be much better.
