Sweet Home 3D is an Java-based open source system for interior design which helps quickly choosing and placing furniture on a house 2D plan drawn by the end-user, with a final 3d preview. Sweet Home 3D executable version can be downloaded at http://sourceforge.net/project/platformdownload.php?group_id=152568. We can also download source files by clicking http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sweethome3d/SweetHome3D-1.3.1-src.zip?modtime=1219874511&big_mirror=0&filesize=14746696.
Prime Directive 1 - The system successfully accomplishes a useful task.
Sweet Home 3D does accomplish a useful task which is 3D Modeling. When users need to redecorate their apartment or rearrange the existing furniture, Sweet Home 3D helps a lot. This program provides 75 furniture models that users can place in the virtual room. Also all furniture represented by a small picture and are categorized according to their placement in the real house. I tried to rearrange my living room on this program and I could found all furniture that I have in the category named "Living room". First, I tried to set all furniture in the two dimensional windows and the program correctly shown three dimensional images. After this step, I could rearrange furniture on the two-dimensional windows and three dimensional windows changed as well.
Prime Directive 2 - An external user can successfully install and use the system.
I downloaded Sweet Home 3D and tried to install it on the Windows XP Professional. According to the program description, it supports 32-bits Windows, Linux, and OS X. The installation of Sweet Home 3D was fast and smooth. It was just same as other formal program installation.
Prime Directive 3 - An external developer can successfully understand and enhance the system.
I could download Sweet Home source files from http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sweethome3d/SweetHome3D-1.3.1-src.zip?modtime=1219874511&big_mirror=0&filesize=14746696. The zip file contains README.TXT file which includes how to use the source code and how to compile using Eclipse project or with Ant. All source code classes are compatible with Java SE 5, and the directory contains all the information required to compile. Therefore, Prime Directive 3 is satisfied.
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