| To edit Sweet Home 3D preferences, choose Sweet Home 3D > Preferences... under Mac OS X or File > Preferences... under
	    other systems. 
 In the preferences pane, you can choose the Language used in Sweet Home 3D user interface and the Unit used
	    to draw  the rulers and grid of the home plan, and to display lengths and areas.The button beside the Language drop down list lets you also import some additional languages library files with a SH3L extension.
  The Category folders and the Searchable list radio buttons 
          let you choose how the furniture catalog should be displayed in each 
          Sweet Home 3D window.The 3D navigation arrows check box allows to display arrow buttons 
          that will help you to navigate in the 3D 
        view.
  The Magnetism check box enables or disables the magnetism used 
          in the home plan during walls drawing 
          and furniture placing.The Rulers check box allows to make the rulers around the plan 
          visible or invisible.
 The Grid check box allows to make the grid in the plan visible 
          or invisible.
 The Catalog icons and Top view radio buttons let you choose 
          how the furniture should be drawn in the plan (see images below).
 The Monochrome and Floor color or texture radio buttons 
          let you choose whether rooms should be drawn in plan filled with the 
          color or texture you chose for their floor, or with a grey color (printed 
          as white).
 The Wall pattern in plan combo box lets you choose the pattern 
          used to fill walls in plan.
 	      The New walls thickness value sets the thickness of all the walls that will be created once the preferences
	        pane will be closed.The New  walls height value 
	        sets the height of the new walls and of the new levels.
 The New floors thickness sets the thickness of the floors of new levels.
 The value of the field associated to the Save home data for recovery 
          check box sets the delay in minutes between two save operations of the 
          opened homes. These homes are automatically saved in private files, 
          that will be used for recovery purpose at the next launch of Sweet Home 3D 
          if the program crashes.Finally, the Reset the display of tips button resets the answers 
          you gave to the check box Do not display this tip again shown 
          in the tips dialog boxes displayed when you click on some tools. This 
          means that all the dialog boxes where you selected this check box will 
          appear again.
 
        
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          | Default plan rendering with catalog icons, monochrome floors and walls filled with a hatch pattern
 | Plan rendering with top view furniture icons, floor colors, and walls filled with black color
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