How to Install Sweet Home 3D 5.5.2 Upgraded Java 3D on Ubuntu 16.04, 17.0 and 17.10

Sweet Home 3D is a free interior design application that helps you draw the plan of your house, arrange furniture on it and visit the results in 3D.  The latest Sweet Home 3D 5.5.2 was released on September 20, 2017 Upgraded Java 3D to version 1.6.0 for the Mac OS X distributions running under Java 6.

Sweet Home 3D 5.5.2 Changelog:

• Fixed photo creation at the two lowest quality levels when two monitors are used.
• Fixed how lights in groups are rendered at the two best quality levels in the photo creation tool.
• Upgraded Java 3D to version 1.6.0 for the Mac OS X distributions running under Java 6 (Mac OS X 10.6.8 to 10.13), leaving the JAR Executable as the only version able to run Sweet Home 3D under Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5, and/or PowerPC.
• Other minor bugs fixes and enhancements.

Installation instructions:

Open terminal and insert command line...

32Bit OS

$ wget https://sourceforge.net/projects/sweethome3d/files/SweetHome3D/SweetHome3D-5.5.2/SweetHome3D-5.5.2-linux-x86.tgz $ tar -zxvf SweetHome3D-5.5.2-linux-x86.tgz $ sudo mv SweetHome3D-5.5.2 /opt/

64Bit OS

$ wget https://sourceforge.net/projects/sweethome3d/files/SweetHome3D/SweetHome3D-5.5.2/SweetHome3D-5.5.2-linux-x64.tgz $ tar -zxvf SweetHome3D-5.5.2-linux-x64.tgz $ sudo mv SweetHome3D-5.5.2 /opt/

If everything goes OK. Let’s create a launcher for it so that you can start it from Unity Dash or Launcher.

Open terminal and insert command line...

$ sudo gedit /usr/share/applications/sweethome3d-5.5.2.desktop

Paste below content into the file and save it.

[Desktop Entry] Version=1.0 Name=Sweet Home 3D 5.5.2 GenericName=Interior 2D design application with 3D preview GenericName[de]=Innenraumplaner Comment=Interior design Java application for quickly choosing and placing furniture on a house 2D plan drawn by the end-user with a 3D preview Exec=/opt/SweetHome3D-5.5.2/SweetHome3D Icon=SweetHome3DIcon StartupNotify=true StartupWMClass=com-eteks-sweethome3d-SweetHome3D Terminal=false Type=Application Categories=Graphics;2DGraphics;3DGraphics; Keywords=interior;design;2D;3D;home;house;furniture;java;

Create icon for Sweet Home 3D 5.5.2

$ cd /opt/SweetHome3D-5.5.2 $ cp SweetHome3DIcon.png /usr/share/icons/

 Once installed, launch the Sweet Home 3D from your application launcher and enjoy!