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I think under default settings CAD or something like that not under walls, but under something that covers everything in sub menu like dims for items placed in mode, doors, windows, furniture, etc Dig and you will find it and other things of interest I bet

I am struggling to create a Modern design. I am having difficulty with mixing roof heights and style. Wife wants a Modern home, She likes Swoopy roofs Like a modern Cottage and shed roofs like a modern Home. Basically she doesn't want a track home type of roof. To be honest, I can't seem to grasp the roof concept. I have tried using auto roofs but it is very odd looking. I tried manually but failed. Living room would be 14ft, Rest of home is 10ft. We are building an ICF home with framing against the perimeter of the interior walls. My mind is seeing all the walls at the same height Except for the Living room. Living room is facing the view. I welcome suggestions Your help is greatly appreciated. We are open to ideas. we like the idea of different height roofs, so it doesn't look so plain. Maybe a combination of Asphalt roofing and metal roofing. Papas roofs 9.3.24.pdf

I'm tracing an AutoCAD drawing and running into a problem. Home Designer Pro is very good about snapping my walls to the CAD as I draw them. But it's snapping to the framing layer of the new walls instead of the outside of the drywall. Is there any way to change this behavior? Thanks!

Hello Steve! We've seen a few of these errors in the last week and it appears to be an out of date security certificate. We have a patch in the works but to resolve it now, you can go to this site: https://www.amazontrust.com/repository/ Under the heading "Root CAs" click the DER from the first link under "Self Signed Certificate" Download, save and install the certificate. Close and reopen Home Designer and try the download again. If you continue to have trouble after that please reach out to Technical Support so we can look closer at what you are experiencing. Regarding missing files, many of these may be cleared up by getting the catalogs properly installed. However, if there are still more, you may want to look at the image path that it's looking for with each item in the list. This may give you ideas for where the files that its looking for will be. I hope this helps!

For first issue maybe remove HD2025 and then download and install again? FOr your second issue when the error pops up about missing files - you need to redirect it to the new file you moved as it probably is looking in the wrong place. PIA when you have a bunch of them

I'd like to return the crown molding on itself seen in the photo to create a finished look. Has anyone had any success? I'm using HomeDesignerPro 2024 crownreturn.pdf

I have Home Designer Suite 2025 and either one or two problems, not sure. When I open HDS, I see the following sequence of messages, responses, errors, responses: Message box: Do you want to download available Home Designer Core Catalogs to your Library? You can continue to use Home Designer while downloading I respond "Yes". Next I get the error message box: The catalog download/update completed with one or more errors. This could be caused by internet connectivity, firewall settings, etc. Would you like to try downloading again? I respond "Yes", and get the same error. Next, I choose "Check Knowledge Base", and I've tried the various troubleshooting steps there, including manually downloading the Home Designer Suite files to the correct location. None of these troubleshooting steps has changed the Message or Error messages on startup. In the Database Libraries\errors.log, I see the following error (corresponding to each time I go through the above sequence): Failed to Download Core Library Index File: HD_Suite_Core_Content_Index.txt, Reason: 0 This file does not exist, and I do not see that file as one of the ones I can download. I've also poke around in the Libraries menu on HDS and none of the things available there has changed the error. One of the things I also noticed is that all the catalog_hash.txt files in every sub-directory of ProgramData are empty Another error (and probably a separate error?) is that when I open an old Plan file (from HDS 2015), and then open a camera View in the designer, I get a lot of missing file errors: "One or more files referenced by this view could not be found" When I look for those files, they were present in the old 2015 folders. I copy them from those 2015 folders to the corresponding 2025 folders, but that does not change that error message the next time I open that Plan/View. I've searched the forum and Googled on these problems, but so far have not found any answers. Thanks for any help you can give! --Steve

Hello - I'm a relatively new user, any tips would be appreciated. Specifically I am trying to achieve the large roof slope effect on the left side of the house (behind the directTV antenna). How do I configure the roof definition (or the exterior wall definition) to achieve this? Its a single room underneath. Also the highest roof area with the 4 windows horizontally? Do I need to create another floor / attic? I am running Home Designer Pro 2025, version 26.2.0.52 macOS Thanks very much - and yes I've already painted the house to improve the color scheme ;)

It would be simpler to just answer “yes” or “no”. The youtube link has multiple videos, etc, but does not address the question or open a video to explain “how”. Just saying ….

Suggest learning to draw using Temporary Dimensions and turn off Auto Dimensioning (and delete the existing dimensions via Edit>Delete Objects). Also, consider working your way around the plan and cleaning up what is drawn (and learn to do this as you draw) by making your smallest fraction 1/2". I like to set Temporary Dimension defaults to go to the wall surface as that's how I think. Another personal preference is to not show the Reference Grid (toggle is on the right side of the window by default), as it's just clutter to my eyes. I'm sure there is an official home Designer video, but here is one of mine showing Temporary Dimensions.

Hello all, I am using Home Designer Pro 2024. I reopened my plan to continue working, and noticed the dimensions are all over the place. I do not remember it being this cluttered. Please let me know if you have any suggestions. Thanks

What part of the roof (specifically) are you having trouble with? You've been asked to provide an updated plan file, plus more information, if you want someone to be able to help.

Garybills. that worked. Thank you.

Try this, open roof defaults and change default pitch to 4/12 and let it rebuild the roof, then open the walls that I circled and change the pitch for them back to 8/12.

Full plan was too big, here is plan only.backup_1Sep24a.zip

Hi Eric, Thanks for the video. That was very insightful. I've created a video to show you some of the issues I've run into after following the process you laid out. Here's a link to the video. I'll attach the current state of my plan below. Nussbaum Screened Porch.plan Nussbaum Screened Porch.plan

BTW, I am on Home Architect Pro 2025

There are no items in the texture library

Always good to attach your plan file. Close Architectural. 14MB size limit. Zip just the plan if needed (may need to delete all the extras like furniture and cars). That looks like an old bug.

I'm having an issue with a gable roof overhang. Overhang is set to 18" but it doubles to 36" (see attachments). I've tried using both Gable/roof line and wall break to create the gable, but both create an 36" overhang. Any ideas on how to fix? Home Designer Architectural 25.

https://youtu.be/8MOiqXgGR2A

Okay that seemed to work to fix the overhang but when the roofs got rebuilt, the walls on the porch lowered and got all messed up. How do I fix this part?

No, but you can copy in place and reshape to create separate roof planes.

Try changing your default pitch. It's set to 1/4". Generally, when you have a roof with multiple pitches, set your default to the most common one, then change the pitch in the wall spec as needed.