I understand that players will be able to craft items for other players to furnish their apartments with. Presumably this will be a productive way to make money in the game for players who love to create. Will this crafting be done online (as in a prebuilt crafting process) or will players be able to manually design and import items with 3D meshes etc? If the crafting process will allow the import of 3D meshes to the game, how soon will templates/specs/parameters/rules etc. be available to creators so that we can start working on items in advance

Ahh okay. If that's the case, I hope that eventually this becomes a feature. I'm sure they've probably thought of it but are focusing on the priorities right now. Thanks for the info!