Best video tutorials about Sweet Home 3D
There are several ways to find some help to use Sweet Home 3D: the help included in the software, its FAQ, its user's guide, the forum, numerous tips and... some video tutorials.
In our Summer survey, 20% of you declared watching tutorials, and we thought it could be nice to honor the best video tutorials in this article, updated in December 2023.
There are hundreds of Sweet Home 3D tutorials on YouTube! Short or long, mute or spoken in many different languages, good or less attractive, oldies or recent videos, unique ones or parts of a serial, popular or unknown...
After viewing most of them, I made the drastic selection below. The criteria were: skillfulness of the practice, comprehension of the software, swiftness, quality of the sound... but also, like for any choice, I did some subjective choices.
Sorry for the unselected videos, congratulations for the mentioned ones. But, above all, a big thank you to all of the tutorials contributors.
- Let me begin with the "official" tutorials available on Sweet Home 3D channel, regularly updated with videos for beginners or more advanced users, most of them in English and some in French:
https://www.youtube.com/SweetHome3D/videos
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Covers all the bases in 10 minutes |  |
14 years old, but a new one was published in 2018 |
Sweet Home 3D old tutorials are also available on Dailymotion. These videos are the most popular ones: 500000 views on YouTube, more than 1 million on Dailymotion... Almost cult movies!
However, I didn't feel that the number of views criteria was really relevant to make a selection: the most popular ones are often the oldest ones, but not always the best ones.
- SBCODE produced a large play list of 44 videos:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKWUX7aMnlEJVsAC1r2TZ1RNPHxOW9UZX
- I recommend the following 22 minutes long video, good to learn the basis:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAAYHTuqm9M
And many others, on different topics, on more or less sophisticated subjects: - Sweet Home 3D basement tutorial
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3YWYiJdQrA - Sweet Home 3D Roof tutorial
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FkP6G5ntMw - Roof attic balcony window in Sweet Home 3D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ni_HdY3g208 - Sweet Home 3D velux roof window tutorial
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qb8q2-S5sXw - ...
- TJFREE published 14 tutoriels lasting 6 to 18 min, very clear and well done, with good explanations and handling:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqazFFzUAPc6vIE_JM3Ysis39MrANKxx_
- YouTube also highlighted Anh Đinh. Not only he creates very nice tutorials, but he is a good fellow on the forum and was one of our contest winner. I preferred the videos without music:
- Design and render a bedroom Part 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGZSo9n-mYA - Design and render a bedroom Part 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VKnlMQuf04 - The key to realistic renderings
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDvClsKThoY
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Mute, neat, recent | |
A bit too long in the choice of the decoration |
- In English, I also liked the EdTech 536 three tutorials:
- Create walls and rooms
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYrRNsl8HfE - Furnish room
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BNvAUw0Kj0 - Capture images
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ck-PWmmWibA
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Short, dynamic, good English | |
Too talkative, sometimes too insure and basic |
- I appreciated the various topics addressed by RedTop Learning Sweet Home 3D playlist among which 25 shorts tutorials in English or mute:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLi4H6h-_2oy2B_4X-LrXdzAk5GXAeFAwc
- Introduction and overview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uk8esNsCVn8 - Adding doors and windows to round walls
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1z8lEm4JrQU - How to add a basement
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XTowq-_Cco - Night photo with lights
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBUSi9p2vsY - Glass wall
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IjPzx_kITc - How to add a staircase
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mn-s9xVL2TE - Mezzanine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5FL9wpKojI - ...
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Various and sometime rare topics | |
Manipulations often too quick |
- Pleasantly done and quite complete, I recently discovered this video done by DrZzs & GrZzs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBXIOj5ndo4
- Quite recent too, California Dreamers Association channel shows more or less accurate tutorials with a lot of decoration ideas (mostly in very American style):
https://www.youtube.com/@californiadreamersassociat4832/videos
- From Italy (but in English), let’s point out Daniele Lombardi who developed 5 very good and useful plugins with the tutorials that explain their use:
https://www.youtube.com/@Daniele1182
- In French, I appreciated the Barbuche TV tutorial, under Linux environment:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkhPtUw2IRk
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Nice voice | |
Unusual beginning with dimensions first created |
- Also in French, these 2 videos published by PIXL GrandSoissons are a little big long but well explained:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEbPDG7_IaFR60P-wc7ARCa4KVMC5ZO8J
- In Spanish, the recent tutorial of Cosas de Pep has few subcribers but deservers our recommendation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_w5sDpGu28
- If you speak Russian, there are many tutorials available in this language:
- My favorites come from the Компьютерная Академия ШАГ Днепр (Computer Academy STEP Dnepr) which created a dynamic 16 video courses, making a very complete initiation of Sweet Home 3D:
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Компьютерная+Академия+ШАГ+Днепр+Sweet+Home+3D - Александр Бликанов (Alexander Blikanov) also made around twenty tutorials more or less relevant:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaEK6x9mYxjTABHS3HRgntMWec9ft2Ej7 - And Sahapov produced 12 very short films:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIfbjBZYM65s1dvool6fKeYeWcqAeq57H
- If you speak Chinese, Shin-Chun Lee, one of the Chinese translators of Sweet Home 3D and author of a book about it, produced nearly one hundred videos, making a very complete panorama of uses, even if most of them are quite old:
- There are very simple tutorials like this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55TiTFJBrY8 - Or, on the contrary, complex and sharp ones:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meZlJJmd-lA - Shin-Chun Lee also created a video for the 5.0 version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuYEKWbBBp4
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For the Sweet Home 3D Chinese community! | |
Only if you speak Chinese |
- Mute but with many information written in arabic, this video produced by Emad Ali is neatly done (even if the result is disappointing!):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IK3-_1cTeq4
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Neatly done | |
Hesitant handling |
- In Indi, AS HOME PLAN published some videos of homes he designs with Sweet Home 3D, along with tutorials. Nicely done!
https://www.youtube.com/@ashomeplan
Thanks again to all the contributors! Don't hesitate to encourage them by writing some comments in their videos or subscribing to their channel.
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