Felicia: I appreciate your passion, the huge effort, and many awesome content produced with Inkscape - as you point out. And speaking of SH3D's pattern functionality - it's far from perfect functionality and usability wise, but it lets you get the job done. Unless you are very fine and picky, there is no need for external raster nor vector editing, And very little need for research. Lazur: I am not at all comparing (or inter-using) Sweet Home 3D functions with Inkscape functions, but rather as two somewhat similar development initiatives - and their resulting product, in terms of getting the job done etc. Thanks people for taking the time to respond !! But it gets the job done, and with quite little effort on learning and research. In these same years I also follow the Sweet Home 3D, program - developed by much less people, and yes, still far from perfect and full of oddities. The 'solution' I reached, hardly documented, is incredibly complicated, non intuitive, and actually doesn't even produce the results as expected I appreciate the great effort invested in the Inkscape project, BUT Sorry to say - this is a shame! And again reflects a bad tool/software design philosophy aimed (at best) at software people as users, not at graphic designers of any level, let alone simple everyday users. Yesterday I spent 4 hours trying to find out how I can fill objects with stripes and other graphic patterns - a very basic feature in any software that deals with filling shapes. jobs that in, say, CorelDraw or Microsoft Word around year 2000, would take minutes, with mere intuition and no research. And always needing to spend ridiculous amount of time on research instead of getting the job done. Almost every time - I quit frustrated with either no solution to my specific needs, or an answer that is crooked and/or cumbersome. I have been following and trying Inkscape in recent years, hoping it can become reasonably useful and time saving for my (very simple, very basic) needs. This marvelous initiative is failing its own purpose - big time.

Unity 2d drawing with inkscape