Sweet Home 3D Icon    Printing a home
 

To print a home, choose File > Print....
This menu displays the print dialog box of your system that lets you choose the printer, the printed pages numbers, print quality...

By default, Sweet Home 3D prints the furniture list, the plan and the current 3D view of a home, using default paper size, margins and orientation.
If you want to modify these parameters, choose File > Page setup....

Page setup

In the page setup pane, you may change paper size and orientation by clicking on the Page format button. You can choose also if the furniture list, the plan and the 3D view of a home should be printed or not. If you don't want to use the scale of the plan computed automatically to fit paper at best, you may choose an other scale in the Scale field.
You may also choose the header and/or the footer of your choice that will appear on each printed page. The Header and Footer text fields accepts free texts and also some variables that will be replaced by their value at printing time. Here are the 7 following variables available at this time:

  • $pageNumber for page number,
  • $pageCount for the total page count,
  • $planScale for the plan scale (either the one automatically computed, or the one you entered in Scale field),
  • $date for the date when you will launch print,
  • $time for the time when you will launch print,
  • $name for the name of your home,
  • $file for the file path of your home file.

To avoid you typing the exact name of a variable, use the Variables buttons displayed under the Header and Footer text fields. As the $ sign is reserved for variables, you should use the $$ code to print a $ sign.

Before printing your home, you may preview your page setup at screen, by choosing File > Print preview... out of the menu.

Print preview

In the print preview pane, you can see how a home will be printed page by page. To change the previewed page, click on the arrows at the top of the pane or press the arrow keys.

Print feature may not work under Linux. If this is the case, please choose File > Print to PDF... and print the created PDF file with your system tools.

3D view print may not be available due to a limited configuration of your system. In that case, the Print 3D view check box will be unchecked and disabled.

The 3D view of a home is always printed at a 150 dpi resolution and in such a way that it fills one page, excepted paper margins.

You can also show the scale of the plan on paper by drawing in the plan a dimension measuring a standard length (1 meter for example).

The page setup you chose is saved with the file of a home.

The print preview pane may be enlarged.