I’d never actually used any kind of floorplan software, and honestly I didn’t have high hopes when I went out looking for what I essentially wanted to be Google SketchUp<\/a>, but runs in Linux while still being cross-platform. I was delighted when I discovered Sweet Home 3D<\/a> and even happier when I found it was actively maintained (last release, version 2.0, was on June 6th of this year), was simple to install<\/a> (I just used the Linux Installer which had bundled java), was relatively easy to use (even for me!), and had great documentation. The FAQ<\/a> even answered all the questions I had. What a brilliant project!<\/p>\n So I set off turning the floor plans into a real model. It took a few hours, and I’m still no expert at use since this has a lot of features that I’ll probably never use and I didn’t do fancy things like add windows and flooring, but I ended up with a pretty decent, usable result at the end:<\/p>\n But this hardly does it justice, hop over to the Sweet Home 3D<\/a> for some screen shots that show the full potential of the software.<\/p>\n Oh, and I had a lovely time on my trip, even if it was too short! Note to self: next time you fly across the country, stay for more than 48 hours! ;)<\/p>\n Nice view from the roof of the building :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This past weekend I flew to San Francisco to visit my boyfriend and help him start getting settled into the gorgeous new condo he recently purchased and I had yet to see. Upon arrival, I felt like I’d been there before! This was partially due to the photos and raw floor plans he sent me, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,7,8,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-plug","category-travel","category-planet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1799"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1889,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1799\/revisions\/1889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/images\/journalpics\/082009\/mj_condo_sm.png\")
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