You can also hide or delete this background image, or isolate it a separate level that you'll hide, letting you show an other background image if needed. If the grid is incorrectly shown, just modify it with the Modify background image menu item which now appears in the Plan menu. You might need more than one attempt to show the grid at the right scale and position. Don't forget to hide the default grid in the preferences pane to prevent your grid and the default grid to be shown together, as the following image shows. As Sweet Home 3D built the walls symmetrically to this point, the coordinates of that corner are at (5, 5), and the background image should be placed at (-5, -5).Ĭlick on Finish button to let your grid appear under the plan. In our case, we want the pattern to begin at the internal corner or a room surrounded with 10 cm thick walls that start at the point (0, 0). To ensure that the length of the scale line shown in the wizard is correct, use the zoom buttons shown at the right. In our example, the pattern was 4 meters wide (i.e. Define the scale of your pattern according to your plan.Click on Choose image and select the file of the pattern you designed or downloaded from the Internet (you may also drag and drop the image in the wizard dialog box).Then follow the steps of the Background image wizard: Once the image of your grid is ready, select the Plan > Import background image menu item. In our example, the drawn flat is small and we chose a 400 x 500 cm grid pattern, with a decimeter division, and thicker lines at each meter. Think about the number of lines the grid should show and the thickness of these lines, according to the scale at which you'll print your plan. For example, you can create a square grid with Open Office, then copy / paste it in Paint under Windows or Preview under Mac OS X.

Pick up a grid found on the Internet, or design the one you want using spreadsheet software and a simple image tool. But if you want to print a grid, there's still a solution: Sweet Home 3D lets you import a background image showing such a grid, and printing a background image is something Sweet Home 3D can do! It is one of the reasons why this pattern never appears when you print your plan. When you use Sweet Home 3D, a grid pattern is visible by default in the plan, but you might have noticed that its scales changes when you zoom in/zoom out.

This three-in-one tip is for you! Printing the grid behind your 2D plan Do you need to print a grid under your design? Or maybe display a grid in the 3D view?

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