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Before I put my interior walls I added my windows in my basement. However, when I put the interior walls in, it covers the windows.

Read about exporting the materials list. You can split it up and print from another program.

How do I print individual pages (for example just doors) from the materials list. Don't want to print the whole list just to be able to send quantities and or/sizes to suppliers.

We did it. Your video helped. I want to thank you.

I looked at that old thread you found. It refers to a curved soffit -- a soffit against a curved wall. I also searched this forum and found a solution. Here are a couple of tips. Try to learn the tools you have available -- what they can and cannot do. Since soffits won't work, what will? Learn to think outside the box when solving a problem like this. You see soffits, I see a thick wall. Why? Because you can use the door and window tools to create arched openings in walls. You can create a Pony Wall with a Room Divider wall on the bottom, or select the wall and drag its bottom up. As for searching for help, start at the Home Designer website. the search there searches it and this forum. Search video: I don't know if this will help. I've not watched it since i made it a year ago.

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Chief Premier came up under a google search. Thanks for giving me this, "Home Designer Knowledge Base." I saved it as a favorite. If you had a link on the words Home Designer, nothing opened. May I ask, "What did you search on the Home Designer Knowledge Base?"

Why are you even looking at a Chief Premier help file??? AND...there is more than one way to do this. First option is to look in the Home Designer Knowledge Base.

I have arches, above columns, in the dining room. Can Home Designer Pro add arches in soffits? I've found an older post (2010) stating, "you will have to use a polyline solid, or a slab. You can shape them & curve them in plan view." (How would this be done, if soffits can't be adjusted?) This is what I've drawn, with soffits. This is what I want to achieve. reference: http://www.chieftalk.com/showthread.php?49355-Curved-Soffit

Hi All - I'm using Home Designer Pro and I need some help to customize fencing such that each panel consists of: 6' 4x4 posts every 8 ft (Figured it out while playing with object properties) 6" x 1.25" Top Rail (Figured it out) 16' x 6" x 1.25" horizontal "pickets" spaced 1.25" apart, evenly distributed vertically across the posts. (Can't figure this one out) 1"x4"x6' vertical boards to cover the seams at the center marks of the posts Any help is greatly appreciated in advance (and possibly afterward as well... )

I dunno but try this. Make this vaulted dormer room from first floor with high ceiling. Ensure room divider under the vaulted ceiling beam and that defines the dormer room set the ceiling height up to top plate above those windows you have. check roof over this room uncheck flat ceiling & Shelf Ceiling might need to make dormer walls pony walls where lower part is room divider and upper is whatever t needs to be. PLay with it as what you want isnot intuitive but I am pretty sure if you have things created from First floor it will work better. Or manual edit wall in 3d views by clicking it and moving the corners up. I had similar issue with stair case the just barely the bottom made its way into a room at ceiling and program did not want to enclose with walls. I forget what I did but after while playing I got what I wanted.

Hello, I have a plan where I've created a manual shed dormer off the second floor of my plan. I can't seem to keep the 2nd floor exterior walls of my dormer from hanging below my custom ceiling plane... see red line in attached Jpg. Is there a way I should be going about this? I get the intended result when I do an auto floating dormer, but I can't use those in this case as the walls of the dormer overlap existing walls. The dormer is set up as a room on the second floor as 'open below'. I'd appreciate any pointers in the right direction. A somewhat related question, also in the jpg - The front wall of this shed dormer hangs just above the cabinets (this will be done via a beam) - Is there a way to get the bottom of the wall above the cabinets to show as finished? Thanks! Scott

Ah yes, on the foundation wall tab. Got it! Thank you both for responding!

Is this in all plans? Upload the problem plan -- zip if needed and/or delete things to meet the 14MB size limit, and someone will check it. There should be a Repair option when you reinstall. I'd try it first.

HD pro 2021. The selected object moves in the opposite direction to what I select along each axis. This has just started a few months ago and I have been working around the problem. It happens in plan view, not sure about 3d view. I’m considering re-installing the program. Thank you for responding.

Oops, I should have left the balusters square.

thanks you guys. I will give it a go.

Follow the advice given and you can get this.

Always say what year -- Pro 2018 for example. In plan or a camera view? I guess you have closed and restarted Pro, and tested a new plan?

That should be automatic using the default wall types. Have you built all framing and verified it's not there?

Could be the direction that the camera is facing. In 2025, they have added an axis view so you can see whether it's a positive or negative move. You'll want to post further questions under the "Q&A" tab

You do that by going to wall types>foundation. There you will see where you can specify plate size and quantity

Hello; Question - How do I add a material layer in the "Floor Structure Definition" window? I select a room in the drawing, go to "Room Specification" tab, then select "Structure" and select "Floor Structure" and select Edit; I get the "Floor Structure Definition" window. How do I edit the floor structure? I want to add a 2x plate below the joist (sits on top of foundation wall).

in home designer pro troubleshoot Transform/Replicate Object dialog moves object in opposite directions. For example, X positive moves the object negative direction... same goes for the Y and Z choices.

It's pretty simple. Open the pantry "room", set it as shelf ceiling, then set it's finished ceiling height. Open the refrigerator "room", set as shelf ceiling, then set the ceiling height the same as the pantry room.