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Sweet Home 3D application may run on Windows, Mac OS X 10.4 to macOS 11, Linux and Solaris.
Depending on whether Java is installed on you system or not, you may launch Sweet Home 3D
with Java Web Start or its installer.
Download Sweet Home 3D installer
Sweet Home 3D installer is available under two versions, both bundled with a private copy of Java:
- a free version available at SourceForge.net that comes with 100 pieces of furniture and 26 textures
- a paid version available on the Amazon App Store bundled with 1500 pieces of furniture and 418 textures.
| (version 6.5.2 - 77.1 MB) | (version 6.5.1 - 228 MB) |
Once downloaded, run the installation program and follow the instructions from the installation wizard.
Ensure that the latest version of the drivers of your video card is installed, to get the best performances in Sweet Home 3D. If you encounter some problems at Sweet Home 3D launch, please read the FAQ for additional information. |
Sweet Home 3D installer is available under two versions, both bundled with a private copy of Java:
- a free version available at SourceForge.net bundled with 100 pieces of furniture and 26 textures
- a paid version available on the Microsoft Store, automatically updated and bundled with 1500 pieces of furniture and 418 textures.
| (version 6.5.2 - 77.1 MB) | (version 6.5.3 - 245 MB) |
Once downloaded, run the installation program and follow the instructions from the installation wizard.
Ensure that the latest version of the drivers of your video card is installed, to get the best performances in Sweet Home 3D. If you encounter some problems at Sweet Home 3D launch, please read the FAQ for additional information. |
Sweet Home 3D installer is available under two versions:
- a free version available at SourceForge.net bundled with 100 pieces of furniture and 26 textures
- a paid version available on the Mac App Store, sandboxed, automatically updated and bundled with 1500 pieces of furniture and 418 textures.
| (version 6.5.2 - 75 MB) | (version 6.5.3 - 270 MB) |
For the free version, downloadSweetHome3D-6.5.2-macosx.dmgfor Mac OS X 10.8 to macOS 11, orSweetHome3D-6.5.2-macosx-10.4-10.9.dmg(19.5 MB) for Mac OS X 10.4 to 10.8. Then double-click on the file you'll have downloaded, and runSweet Home 3Dapplication found in the opened folder. If the system refuses to launch Sweet Home 3D for security reasons, click on its application icon while maintaining the ctrl key pressed, and choose Open in the contextual menu that will appear. To install Sweet Home 3D, drag and drop the application in the folder of your choice.
If you don't want to care about the Java configuration of your system, click on one of the following links to download an all-in-one Sweet Home 3D installer bundled with Java:
| Windows installer | - | Mac OS X installer | - | Linux 32-bit installer | - | Linux 64-bit installer |
| (77.1 MB) | (75 MB) | (70.9 MB) | (67.6 MB) |
| Run the downloaded installation program, and follow the instructions from the installation wizard. |
Under Mac OS X 10.4 to 10.8, download this installer (19.5 MB). |
Uncompress the downloaded file and run SweetHome3D application found in the uncompressed directory, possibly using this tip to launch it with a double click under Ubuntu. To install Sweet Home 3D, move the uncompressed directory in the one of your choice or read this article to create a launcher (see also this subject in the forum). |
Whatever your system is, ensure that the latest version of the drivers of your video card is installed, to get the best performances in Sweet Home 3D. |
Download Sweet Home 3D with Java Web Start
If Java version 8 is installed on your system, click on the following link to download and launch Sweet Home 3D version 6.5.2 (19.5 MB):
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| Launch Sweet Home 3D with Java Web Start | |
| Clicking on the previous link will automatically download and launch Sweet Home 3D. | |
If Sweet Home 3D loading doesn't start once you clicked on the previous link, click on the SweetHome3D.jnlp downloaded file while maintaining the ctrl key pressed, and choose Open in the contextual menu that will appear. | |
Choose to open the SweetHome3D.jnlp downloaded file with javaws program that you'll find in the bin directory of the JRE (Java Runtime Environment). | |
If, once started, the download of Sweet Home 3D files by Java Web Start is interrupted, please wait, download should continue after a while. |
Other downloads
Depending on your needs, you may also download the following files proposed in the Sweet Home 3D Download section on SourceForge.net:
| 3D models libraries | Each zipped file of the section SweetHome3D-models contains a double-clickable SH3F file describing additional 3D models created by contributors for the furniture catalog of Sweet Home 3D. Read Libraries of 3D models section for more information. |
| Textures libraries | Each zipped file of the section SweetHome3D-textures contains a double-clickable SH3T file describing additional textures created by contributors for the textures catalog of Sweet Home 3D. |
| Furniture Library Editor (10.8 MB) | This double-clickable JAR file launches the Furniture Library Editor under Windows, Mac OS X and Linux systems with Java installed. Like the Furniture import wizard, this application lets you quickly create a SH3F file and edit the properties of the 3D models it contains. |
| Textures Library Editor (1.1 MB) | This double-clickable JAR file launches the Textures Library Editor under any system with Java installed. Like the Textures import wizard, this application lets you easily create a SH3T file and edit the properties of the texture images it contains. |
| Sweet Home 3D JS Viewer (3.2 MB) | This archive contains the files of a HTML5 / WebGL Canvas you can upload on your web site to display the 3D view of a Sweet Home 3D file. Read the README.TXT file included in this archive for instructions about installation process. |
| Sweet Home 3D portable (351 MB) | This 7-zip archive contains Sweet Home 3D applications for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows, Mac OS X, 32-bit and 64-bit Linux, bundled with the Java environments required to execute them. Once you uncompressed this archive in a given folder (on a hard disk or a USB key), you can move this folder or the USB key where you copied it to use Sweet Home 3D on another computer, without losing software configuration. |
| Sweet Home 3D executable jar (25.5 MB) | This double-clickable JAR file launches Sweet Home 3D under Windows, Mac OS X and Linux systems with Java installed. It's not the preferred option to run Sweet Home 3D because you won't get association with Sweet Home 3D files, and depending on the Java version you use, it could use 96 MB of memory at maximum, which is too small to create middle sized homes. This JAR file is useful for plug-ins developers and advanced users who wants to run Sweet Home 3D with customized Java options (like the -Xmx Java option that lets you choose the maximum memory size used by Java). |
| Sweet Home 3D installers | The SweetHome3D section contains the installers of Sweet Home 3D for all the supported operating systems and all the released versions up to the current version 6.5.2. |
| Sweet Home 3D source (27.6 MB) | This archive contains the source files used to build Sweet Home 3D. Sources are useful to developers who want to contribute to the development of Sweet Home 3D and its plug-ins. Note that source files may be browsed on-line too with the web-based CVS repository viewer provided by SourceForge.net. |
| Sweet Home 3D javadoc (2.5 MB) | This archive contains the developer's javadoc built from the source files of Sweet Home 3D. Javadoc is useful for developers only. Note that the javadoc may be browsed on-line here. |
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A seemingly insignificant product cancellation is having a far-reaching impact on a particular community of Mac users.
Reg reader (and contributor) Colin Hughes wrote in to inform us about how Developer Nuance's decision to drop the OS X port of its Dragon Professional for Mac has left some customers with disabilities out in the cold.
A very important niche
Pitched as a productivity tool, Nuance's Dragon software is aimed at everyone from journalists and home users to medical professionals as a way to accurately transcribe spoken words into printed text.
For some users, however, the software is much more than a convenience. Hughes explains that, for him and others whose conditions leave them unable to type with a keyboard, voice dictation software is a line to the outside world.
'I became wholly reliant on voice dictation software for corresponding, whether it is writing a business letter to the bank, a blog post, or a short text to friends and family,' he explains.
'I do not have a plan B for writing anything.'
That is why, when Nuance announced recently that it was cutting support for the Mac version of Dragon Professional for Mac, it left some users in a tough spot.
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While the software will continue to function, there will be no future updates or support, meaning Colin and others who have come to depend on Dragon for everyday activities will have to find another way to get things done.
'I have followers on Twitter who are in employment and run businesses and they say this news will hit their productivity hard,' Hughes explains.
'Blind people, people with dyslexia are also likely to be affected adversely along with severely physically disabled people like myself.'
El Reg contacted Nuance for comment on the matter, but a spokesperson had only the PR boilerplate to offer.
'Nuance is constantly evaluating its product portfolio to see how we can best meet the needs of our customers and business. After much consideration, we have made the difficult decision to discontinue the Dragon Professional Individual for Mac line-up,' the statement reads.
'Customers may still receive telephone support for up to 90 days from date of activating the software in North America and up to 180 days from date of software activation in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and the Asia-Pacific regions. Customers’ statutory rights are not affected.'
In other words, the clock is ticking for anyone who relies on Dragon for Mac to either find a new app or migrate to Windows. Which leads us to the next part of the story.
Other options don't really stack up
It would be one thing if the other options for Mac users could match Nuance's now-discontinued offering. Unfortunately, Hughes tells us, there isn't anything close to Dragon at the moment.
'Apple’s own voice dictation app.(found in accessibility) is inferior because it doesn’t learn from your mistakes, it can’t cope with work jargon, foreign names, you can’t train it to recognize words so it doesn’t repeat the same recognition mistake, you can’t add to its vocabulary,' said Hughes.
'So if there is an error in recognition when dictating people like me can’t take to the keyboard and simply carry on. So Apple’s own offering is far inferior to Dragon for Mac and is not at all productive for me to use.'
That leaves users with the unenviable choice of either making do with an inferior product or dropping their Macs in favor of Windows, where Nuance still supports Dragon Professional.
'I am a Mac user, I am steeped in the Mac ecosystem with MacBook Pro, iPhone, and Watch with all that seamless integration between devices,' Hughes said.
'It is not a simple decision to switch to a Windows machine and get Dragon for Windows.'
Apple to blame as well
It is no secret that Apple does not play well with others and the strict limits it places with its APIs have prevented developers from making full use of hardware the way they can on other platforms. Many an Android developer, for example, has had to cut features from the iOS version of their app due to Apple simply not granting access to specific components.
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READ MORENuance, it seems, ran into some of the same problems when it made Dragon for Mac.
Back in a 2016 user group presentation, Nuance R&D program manager Jeff Leiman noted how Apple's API restrictions left Nuance unable to implement some of the features it was able to offer for the Windows version.
While wanting to keep control of what happens on their platform is perfectly understandable, Hughes argues that Apple should also take it upon themselves to pick up where Nuance left off and develop a better set of access and dictation tools for disabled users.
Hughes says that, eventually, he does believe someone, be it Apple or Google, will step up and offer better voice controls and dictation. Unfortunately, in the meantime he and other users are tied to the business decisions of the few companies, such as Nuance, who offer a usable product.
Perhaps most frustrating is that the technology to do voice control properly is already here. Apple and others have made a point of working it into their hardware demos, but the involvement ends there, and when it can't be used to showcase a new product, speech recognition seems to get tossed aside.
'For some strange reason Apple keeps pitching voice control in terms of gimmicky things like ordering your coffee from Starbucks while turning your thermostat down on your way out to work,' Hughes says.
'For people like me being able to control my Apple device by voice can make or break my day. Apple just doesn’t seem to get that and it isn’t listening.'
Here's hoping they do, sooner than later. ®
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