Every home is created with a default level, but Sweet Home 3D is also able to manage multiple levels, with a positive or negative elevation for each level. To add a new level, choose Plan > Add new level from the menu. As soon as a home has more then one level, some tabs appear at the top of the plan view and let you select the level into which you want to add some objects. At the end of the tabs list, appears also a tab with a + sign that you can use to create more levels if needed.
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New level showing in light color walls and ceilings of the lower level |
To help you find your place in an upper level, walls and ceilings of the lower level are displayed with a light color in the plan view. If the selected level is the lowest level, walls and floors of the next level will be drawn in a light color. When magnetism is active, the mouse cursor is magnetized on these walls and rooms to let you use wall or room drawing tools more easily. If needed you may also simply copy some walls, rooms or furniture from an other level to paste them in the new level.
Each level has an elevation and other attributes that can be changed. If the top of some walls or some furniture added to a lower level is higher than the elevation of the selected level, they will appear in full color, like the surrounding walls, the spiral staircase and the window on the right in the next figure.
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New level showing in full color the high walls and furniture of the lower level |
Adding a new level has no direct effect in the 3D view, and no floor is automatically added to separate a level from an other. It's only once you start to draw walls, rooms or add some furniture that you will see these new objects appear at the elevation of the new level. |