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Here's the result you can get with SweetHome3DExample4.sh3d file, with a height of 100 cm for the front walls and half of the roof hidden. To change quickly the height of a set of walls, select them by holding the shift key when you click on each of them and/or by drawing a selection rectangle that includes walls (and possibly objects of another kind), then choose the Plan > Modify walls menu item to enter the wall you want.

The height of walls, set by default to 250 cm in preferences, can have any value. If you group an invisible box marked as Door or window with one marked as Staircase of the same size, you will even obtain a special box able to cut out walls as well as floors, as shown in the following image based on SweetHome3DExample6.sh3d file.Īnd now, you can show the nice heating system you have designed through the house with the photo creation tool.Ī third solution consists in reducing the height of the walls which hide the interior.

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Like any staircase in Sweet Home 3D, this invisible box will make an hole in the floors between two levels (see also the tip How to customize staircases). Just import again the invisible box 3D model, this time selecting Staircase option at the third step of the Furniture import wizard. Last but not least, it is also possible to cut out floors with invisible boxes. You may also find convenient to use several invisible boxes at different elevations to design a more complex 3D view with walls cut out at different heights, like in the following example based on SweetHome3DExample3.sh3d file, where invisible boxed were grouped to make it easier to disable their effect when not needed. Note that you may revert to the original design easily with the use of the Visible check boxes available on hidden objects, as well as on this invisible box which effect will be disabled when its Visible check box is unselected. Let's try this solution at the upper level of the house available in SweetHome3DExample7.sh3d file, with a larger invisible box and hiding some windows, doors and other objects in the way.Īs the photo creation tool takes into account invisible boxes at the two best quality levels, you may use this solution to render nice images like the following one. You may resize it (preferably without magnetism in this case) and elevate it, depending on the effect you want, like in the following image showing SweetHome3DExample5.sh3d file.

Once the invisible box is imported and added to the plan, it will make a hole in all the walls it intersects (but with no effect on objects of another kind).

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Like in the tip How to create a hole at the bottom of a wall, this tip requires to import an invisible box as a door or window: download this invisible box 3D model, import it in Sweet Home 3D with the Furniture Import > furniture menu item, taking care to select the Door or window option at the third step of the Furniture import wizard, as shown below. It takes longer to prepare this kind of design but, once installed, the effect of this solution can be easily disabled and enabled again. To be able to view the interior of a home behind its walls, another solution may consist in cutting out the walls which hide objects.

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At these quality levels, only a full transparent setting will actually hide walls and floors, like in the following image computed at the best quality level. This can be useful to view the interior of a small room when you want to adjust the position of some objects hidden by some walls.Ĭhanging this setting will make walls and floors transparent also in images created with the photo creation tool at the two first quality levels, like in the following screen capture that shows the image created from SweetHome3DExample8.sh3d file with half transparent walls.Ī half transparent setting has no effect at the two best quality levels in the photo creation tool.

Once walls transparency is changed, all walls, floors and ceilings will be more or less transparent in the 3D view. By default, walls are opaque in Sweet Home 3D, but you can make them partially invisible, by selecting the 3D view > Modify 3D view menu item and changing the position of the Walls transparency slider from Opaque to Invisible. All homes handled in this tip come from Sweet Home 3D gallery. This tip shows several ways to make walls partially invisible, in order to get nice 3D views. You want to show the external structure as well as the interior parts of the beautiful home you designed? Or more simply, do you need to view inside a small room where walls hide its interior?