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Hello @scootersyme, Thank you for the question! There is a feature in our Chief Architect Premier product that allows you to find objects (including framing members) in the plan. There are other features as well that make it easy to show framing in a wall detail and include it on your layout sheet(s). Below are a few screenshots of what this looks like. If you see value in this along with the many other features that are exclusive to the Premier product, there is an Upgrade Path for you to move to the Premier product (you save $500 off the first year annual subscription). You can download the Premier Free Trial and open your Home Designer plan to give it a test drive. If you have questions or would like to see these features in action, feel free to reach out to me in sales (if I am not immediately available, anyone is sales can help) 208.292.3400. Kind regards , Derek Pedersen Chief Architect Software In Premier, there is an edit button to "Find Object in Plan" at the bottom of the screen. After clicking this button, the object will be highlighted (selected) in your plan, so it is easy to find. The Premier Product also has a feature to show the wall framing detail by selecting the wall and then click the edit button "Show Wall Detail." You can add a framing schedule to this view to show additional details about the framing in the wall. In this example, I selected the header in the materials list. Note that the header in the wall detail below is highlighted (selected) so I can easily identify its location.

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Click on the 3 dots in the top right of the post, and delete should be there as an option.

Unfortunately, I cannot delete the post, or I do not know how. All I see is the option to edit. Brian

If you're using Chief X17, stay on the Chief forum, as the 2 programs are different, and there will be different options available. You can just delete this post to eliminate confusion.

Posted this in ChiefTalk, but thought there might be users here who aren't on that forum. Sorry for the double post. I am struggling with the roof on the attached plan. I know the little shed roof on the back of the main floor was an add on and I did not know if there was a way in the wall settings to get the roof to generate to match the attached images of the actual home. Would love it if someone could point me in the right direction. I have it close but the last little bit is killing me. Thanks in advance, Brian 1 Woodlawn Ave.caproj

manually edit the roof plane in question

Hello, It's great to have a propagated materials list especially for framing materials but... is there anyway to see where a particular framing member exists in the print. For instance there is a 2x6 that is 6' long and I would like to see where this 6 footer is in the wall framing. There is a "Detail" heading but it's blank and there is nothing to click on. Thanks for any help with my issue.

Hello and thanks in advance. I am looking for a way i can have auto roof rebuild turned off but when I move a specific exterior wall, I can go in and automatically update the roof to cover this 1 wall change without doing anything else to the other roof planes. Home designer pro 2024

Anybody have any luck exporting a .STL or .DAE and the materials stay in place with importing into Sketchup using Sketchups native import tool. and how to export just the walls and landscape without framing and every other detail. even unchecked in 3d view full camera or overview it still exports with everything.

probably because in VECTOR view. Try going into the tools menu and open up LAYER DISPLAY OPTIONS: Then turn off: ROOF OVERHANG and other Roof items you donot have nor want to see.

I'm still having the same problems as above. This, however, is a new project and I have changed the soffit material to "no material". Why do I still have a line at the bottom of the rafter tails? It shows up in my elevation views as well; which is a problem when I am building layouts for final construction drawings. I also tried turning off ceiling planes but it doesn't get rid of it. Any suggestions?

Your perceived tone and language is pretty consistently combative and aggravated, and I am not entirely sure that you want me to engage...I notice an old post from Eric the Solver saying the same thing..for the life of me I still don't know why you were attacking me in another thread. I suppose I should qualify myself. I am one of the more popular trainers in twinmotion, I used to have a tutorial series that twinmotion used to promote for what that's worth to you. We aren't necessarily comparing apples to apples. For reference this is what I consider a good exterior render which was done back in 2020, nowadays my TM renderings all have ai enhancements so this is one of the last ones I have that was all TM. It takes longer than 20 minutes to apply the grass and load all of your secondary maps like bump and roughness and normals and AO as well as establish cameras and emitters and rotating the backdrops and sun settings. If we are just talking about rendering what you import..sure, 20 minutes. Regardless, even at 20 min, doesnt that add up? Interiors, well, all of the maps at 100 textures def takes an hour. I'm not trying to relate a contract model, I am asking you what your time is worth, I don't bill by the hour either, but my target margins do equate to some rate that is substantiated by how much TIME it takes me. ok so what is 20 hours worth to you? This statement alone has me scratching my head as to why you aren't using premiere as it would cut this down substantially..and then truly you would switch from an aggravated customer to an overwhelmed one by the shear amount of time saving tools we have access to in the professional line. When I start drawing, my condoc is 75% complete in Premiere at 12 different sheet sizes and title block styles. All of my schedules are done, my cameras are done, my details annotations all done. Working in 3d to model a 3d building is a lot more efficient then relegating yourself to sheet space. I also recreate models from CAD drawings, and I am considered to be one of the fastest technicians in this software. I really don't enjoy making such statements, it just feels like gloating, and that's not my intent, but for example, you have to open a window dbx to designate the height in plan view, whereas in 3d I can change the height location and width of the window without ever opening up the dbx, which is much faster and more efficient. It's a heck of a lot faster then working in a vector view and I get to spin the camera around instead of opening elevation after elevation. Yes there is a z fighting issue, it is easily fixed in the premiere line, and I imagine this is a regional detail, ordering a window with shallow frame and no jamb extensions and wrapping the drywall back to that frame. I've never seen it, which is probably why it is so slow to be addressed. Shoot a message to dermot dempsy on chieftalk..that's his code. In the meantime, I am happy to make you more sill profiles , just drop in the cad for me to reference.

Its really easy to replicate. In HD pro 2025. Draw an external wall or room, any wall doesn’t matter. Increase the wall depth to about 400mm from center. Place a window, with external casing. (70mm) recess the window frame by about 150mm choose any default 2025 sill/shape profile and recess it. Bam z-fighting.

@Renerabbitt Ah sure, maybe I should give you some training in Twin Motion then, because I can import, setup and get about 6 fully raytraced Exterior images in about 20mins, if I need to. IF I faff and take my time with one interior scene/picture, then yeah it’ll be about an hour too. I don’t bill per hour. I quote engineers, architects, surveyors, carpenters and interior designers ahead based on their plans as they need a fixed price to in turn pass on to their clients. There is no way I could charge per hour here, I’d be out of business. No one here pays per hour unless you’re a gardener, cleaner, child-minder etc and/or only doing a 2–4-hour job. So yes, I completely disagree. I’ll provide a quote based on what I can see on the CAD plans as well as fixed eta timeline. (About €400 for a TM Exterior, 6 pictures ) of an average 1800sft bungalow house. If I asked for anything more than that, I’d be told to go fly a kite. I’m pretty much already pushing the top end of the scale and it taken me years! It’s only because of my level of accuracy and attention to detail that I’ve got this far. You want to talk about work flow…I spend on average about 20 hours, PER JOB, “fixing” Chiefs’ holes and gaps with soffits, wedges, slabs and shapes thanks to the obnoxious wall, railing, and fence snapping; manually building window sills because they Z-fight, manually building dormer windows because the auto-floating dormer doesn’t work with 400mm cavity walls, manually building roofs with barge/verge walls, manually building skylight shafts, manually building corner windows and doors, manually building gutters, downpipes, building objects in SketchUp and importing them etc. And the terrain controls in chief are an entirely different kind of joke. THAT’S where my work flow problem exists!! Then…. Just when you think you have everything technically patched up… you switch to PBR… and all your ”patches” light up like Christmas trees because Chief cant “rasterize” in PBR properly. I'd probably turn off 3D dimentions if I could, makes no difference to me since I work off real CAD plans and elevations in CAD "Are you sure? because it did fix it on my HD2026" Apologies, your sill does work and fixed it in 2026...but now cmere, you’re blatantly admitting there was a Z-fighting issue otherwise you wouldn’t have had to “fix it” without me posting any futher details. Without "your" sill, the problem still exists in 2026. I appreciate that you took the time and thank you, but unforntunately, like I said Pro 2025-2022 is the issue, not 2026. Ill let go of my distain for this software when it actually works.

Hello @DesignerRyan Creating new layers is a feature available in our flagship program Chief Architect Premier. Also in Chief Architect Premier you have the ability to Reference plans. This allows you to overlay your as-built plan under the new plan to see where changes occur in both 2D and 3D. This video demonstrates Referencing as well as some other remodeling features. More information about the differences between Home Designer and Chief Architect can be found here: https://www.homedesignersoftware.com/chief-architect/ Let us know if you have any questions! Best, Phillip Chief Architect Software

I do however Thank you for your effort to answer my question. Greatly appreciated. I love the software. Much, much easier to use than Revit and does about the same job.

Well it bugs me because it's not consistent. The lines show up on some foundation walls but not all foundation walls. When the lines appear on some walls but not all walls it's confusing. And, I don't build foundation walls with a specific brick ledge. I simply but brick at the top of the wall.

go to tool bar: TOOLS click: DISPLAY OPTIONS Turn off from view BRICK LEDGE LINES They only show up when you have brick on exterior. Not sure why it bugs you since if you have brick they will make a brick ledge to support and get proper drainage.

It's the same for any of the Home Designer versions. You mentioned 24 in your post

My signature is old - I'm using Home Designer Pro 2024

Not in the Home Designer product. You'll need to upgrade to Chief Architect for layers. This discussion has come up many times. I always just draw an as built plan, then copy it to make the changes for the remodel

Does anyone know if I can create layers in any of the Home Designer Pro versions? I'm using 2024, but can upgrade if they have added this. And if not, does anyone know a workaround for solving my need: I do a lot of remodels. I would love to be able to layer my as-built plan under my new plan with my changes so I can see (and show clients) where we started as a base of comparison.

This is crazy. 8 foundation walls are clean. One foundation wall shows a brick ledge. WTH. Someone needs to be able to answer this problem.

I understand that it's likely a brick ledge line but I don't want to see the line. Other foundation walls have a brick ledge but they don't have the brick ledge line. WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!