I just got an advertising email from SM about this.  Has anyone got it?  Is it good for poser?

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Based on the older version of Punch! Home Design, no.  Strictly for layout and designing.  I see nothing practical that can be integrated into Poser.

Pity!

Freebie equivalent here.  Exports OBJ.  http://www.sweethome3d.com/ 

 

(Sorry, not intending to usurp a commercial product; just expanding the discussion for OP.)

infinity10 - that does look pretty nice.  do you think people make any commercial products with it.  it looks like it could be used for that.

No idea.  But note that the content (furnishings, etc) are released for use with sweetHome3D by various 3rd-parties, under Creative Commons licencing. 

oh - which probably means not for comercial renders etc.

"Sweet Home 3D supports 3D model files such as OBJ, DAE, 3DS, LWS format or a ZIP file containing a file of this type."

http://www.sweethome3d.com/userGuide.jsp#importing3DModels

If you made your own furniture to use in the software.

I'm testing Sweet Home 3D here, based on this thread, and it looks like the exported .obj quality isn't very good.  One of these exported models might help you as a reference model, or a starting point from which you can take the surfaces and completely rebuild the polygon structure, or something.  :unsure:  I'm seeing a lot of bad triangle geometries, overlapping surfaces, low resolution geometries, and wonky smoothing when imported to Poser.  The model quality reminds me of the freebie 3DS models we used to see, back in the late 90s/early 2000s.  Potentially useful software, but unlikely to give you anything that you'll want to use in Poser without significant modification.

That said, I am finding it useful, on my end, for things other than Poser.

Attaching the initial test export I generated, since the file is small and it can show all the issues I mention.

Okay, I think exports from Sweet Home can be made useable pretty easily.  Import the obj into Wings 3D, then select all sharp edges and set them to hard.  Export it again.  This fixes two problems.  First, the exports seem to contain stray vertices (without polygon associations), and running a geometry through Wings automatically removes these.  Second, setting those edges as hard fixes the smoothing issues in Poser.

You won't get UV mapping on any wall surfaces unless you apply a texture within Sweet Home.  Even then, the mapping applied looks like it may not be useful without modification.

The geometry will be constructed of a lot of unconnected planes or boxes, some of which may have visibly overlapped surfaces when rendered in Poser.  The overlapping seems to happen pretty easily, but it also seems to be due to user error when creating the walls in Sweet Home.  Based on sample images on their home page, it looks like at least some software can do really nice things with the files exported from Sweet Home, but it looks like that may take a bit of work, with Poser.

This program could be useful as a quick way to generate simple or basic room interiors, or to help create a starting point for a better project built using more sophisticated 3D software.  It's not bad for freeware.