Package: sweethome3d Version: 4.3+dfsg-1 Severity: wishlist Please update Sweet Home 3D packages to latest upstream version 4.4 (released 2014-06). Here are the most important changes:
http://sweethome3d.com/blog/2014/06/12/sweet_home_3d_4_4.html New features in the texture pane The dialog box that lets you choose a texture for walls, floors, ceilings and materials was updated with a tooltip displaying the texture under the cursor at a larger size, a search text field to filter textures list, the ability to rotate textures and a list of the recently chosen textures. Placing objects on furniture The furniture libraries 1.4 and the furniture coming by default with SweetHome3D 4.4 include a new dropOnTopElevation (uneditable) property that will help you place objects on furniture much faster. Imagine you want to decorate the table of the following desk with a computer and other objects. Until now, dropping an object on another one in the plan set its elevation to a value equal to the height of the object. In the case of this desk, some shelves and some other furniture, this led most of the time to a disappointing situation where objects were too high. Sweet Home 3D 4.4 comes also with the new Furniture > Reset elevation menu item used to update the elevation of the selected objects according to the furniture on which they are placed, like when you dropped them from the catalog on some furniture in the plan. Imagine you dropped some plates on a table, and finally you replace the table by an other higher one. Until now, if you wanted to update the elevation of the plates, you had to reset their elevation to 0 then make a fake move of the plates to provoke an update of their elevation. Damaged files management In version 3.6, the ability to edit SH3D files damaged on the disk was removed to avoid the frustration of not being able to save them afterwards. As this choice implied that repairing a damaged file could be done only by program, I programmed a tool able to handle the most repairable cases. As this tool works well now, I integrated it in Sweet Home 3D 4.4 which tries to repair a damaged SH3D file when you open it. Importing in the Online version Users who logged in the Online version are now able to import a SH3D file on sweethome3d.com server to edit it online. Other features and important bug fixes in Sweet Home 3D 4.4: In the Furniture materials pane, the material selected in the materials list now blinks in the 3D preview included in the pane to help you find the material you want to edit. Sideways moves in the 3D view can me done with the Alt + left arrow and Alt + right arrow keys, eventually combined with the Shift key to move faster. For homes with multiple levels, the new Edit > Select all at all levels menu item will select all the items in all the levels of the home, to let you move them together or export them to OBJ format. The Select object sub menu shown in the contextual menu of the plan when you right-clicked on superimposed objects becomes the Toggle selection sub menu when the Shift key is pressed, to let you remove hidden selected objects from selection or add unselected objects to selection. When the Foot/Inch/Fraction unit is selected in preferences (i.e. Imperial unit system), the text fields used to edit lengths now show and accept lengths at this format, for example 1'11¼", and you may type decimals instead of the fraction character. Sweet Home 3D Viewer introduced new parameters that will let you choose the levels and points of view that the users will be able to select in the contextual menu of the 3D view. Some annoying bugs were also fixed in this release, among which: The bug that made some ugly black square dots appear from time to time in the photos computed at the two best quality levels should be fixed. Some users who used many different names for their objects, reported they couldn't save their preferences after a while and worse, that this saving was failing silently. This won't happen anymore. Collada / DAE format was replaced by KMZ format in Trimble Warehouse 3D a few months ago. As a KMZ file is actually a ZIP file which, among other things, contains a Collada DAE file that Sweet Home 3D was already able to read, users just had to replace the KMZ extension by ZIP to make it work in SweetHome3D 4.3 But this wasn't very handy and the KMZ extension is recognized by SweetHome3D 4.4 Btw, it seems you already updated sweethome3d-furniture* packages to 1.4 release: http://www.sweethome3d.com/blog/2014/05/15/furniture_libraries_1_4.html right? Thanks for improving free software, Mantas -- Labanaktis/Good luck, Mantas Kriaučiūnas Jabber ID: man...@akl.lt GPG ID: 43535BD5 Public organization "Open Source for Lithuania" - www.akl.lt Geriausios biuro programos verslui ir namams - http://openoffice.lt Prekyba naujais ir atnaujintais kompiuteriais su Linux OS - http://tinklas.eu Naudok Baltix GNU/Linux sistemą savo kompiuteryje - http://baltix.lt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
