Основными достоинствами программы являются:

• Кроссплатформенность. Sweet Home 3D может работать на компьютерах с операционными системами Windows, Linux, Mac OS и Solaris;
• Полная русификация;
• Легкое освоение и простота использования;
• Добавление расширений (plug-ins);
• Выгрузка (Экспорт) в OBJ формат;
• Импорт 3DS файлов в Sweet Home 3D;
• Дополнительные 3D модели вы можете бесплатно скачать с официального сайта.

Изменения в версии 5.2:

— Added Invisible option to the Furniture materials pane to hide some parts of a piece of furniture.
— Made resizing of a piece of furniture with its resize indicator proportional when shift key is pressed.
— Moved the viewport of the plan only when selected objects become invisible at screen when they are moved with the keyboard.
— Changed the width of the rectangle of doors and windows in the plan to take into account the width of their doorOrWindowCutOutShape property when it's smaller.
— Added com.eteks.sweethome3d.resolutionScale system property to apply a scale factor to the user interface of Sweet Home 3D.
— Added a Java Web Start version able to display the user interface of Sweet Home 3D at a twice larger size for users with HiDPI screens under Windows and Linux.
— Added samplerAlgorithm and filter properties to the renderer properties that can be set for Sunflow.
— Fixed a bug that could enlarge uselessly the size of a SH3D file when the texture of a material was set to its default value or reused on an other object.
— Ensured walls created by Plan > Split wall menu item are at the same level as the split wall.
— Replaced visual properties set on a Home instance with simple String properties (developers are encouraged to replace calls to the deprecated getVisualProperty and setVisualProperty on a Home instance, by calls to getProperty and setProperty, because future file format might not save visual properties anymore).
— New icon and logo designed by madudesign.
— Modified installer program to delete old JREs at the end of installation process under Windows.
— Updated the digital signature used to signed the application with a SHA-2 signature.
— Replaced JRE 8u60 by JRE 8u74 in Sweet Home 3D installers bundled with Java under Windows.

Особенности Portable версии:

Портативная версия программы от разработчика, работает без инсталляиции на компьютер.