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As I mentioned earlier, these are joist direction lines causing the errors. If you drag your cursor over one of the warnings, there will be a comment showing what it is. Make your "bearing lines" visible, then you can delete them. Very simple.

You could place two cabinets opposing one another back-to-back. Take one of them, and remove the front face items leaving only an opening.

Material transparency was removed in Home Designer 2026. Many of the new materials now have material maps; and when there is a map, the transparency control did not override the map and make any change. So, that setting was removed in favor of using the new materials in ray trace views. If you feel strongly about it (I see you must with upper case in your post), let us know by sending an email, and we can relook at the feature - suggestions<at>chiefarchitect.com

Unfortunately, I don’t think you can, unless you previously purchased it. The HD pro range is no longer available.

@RenerabbittI’m glad you picked up on my tone because I’m absolutely fed up. I posted that question before I used the trial version of 2026. I’m well aware of how Ray-tracing works, (or is supposed to work). I was querying whether Chief would actually do that because their attempt at PBR in HD was so poor. I’m also aware that Chief Premier had ray-tracing long before TM etc and I have used the trail version. What I’m saying is, that Chief has long since been overtaken by the likes of other free or less expensive software, and in a world where AI can generate photo-real images in minutes, and of all the things they could’ve done to improve the HD software, they’ve chosen to offer ray-tracing and charge 4x the annual price. All the other technical glitches and issues of HD Pro 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022 etc, still remain. There is absolutely no other benefit to 2026, other than ray-tracing, and raytracing can be done on an external engine for free (with less effort and better results imo, especially for exterior renders)

My dimes worth is that the exclamation marks are indicative of non-rectiiner wall angles. check ortho angles are 90 degrees apart and they should leave your workings. But I am a novice here.

What it means is that you should keep whatever version you have been using. Any update available now is only to home designer 26.

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Try posting the plan

Still no way to remove the indications

Angie, I'm seriously considering reverting to Pro 2024. How would I do that? Thanks Eric Intel Core i5 11th-gen 1TB NVMe stick SSD 32GB DDR4 RAM Radeon RX 9070 XT 16G graphics

If you click on them, it'll tell you what the issue is. Often it's a framing thing, and if you display "bearing lines", you may see them to delete. Yes, I have been fortunate to have a good design business going. I have a great group of clients who keep me busy steadily.

Keith, I'm curious. In the last 13 years or 676 weeks, you indicated that you have completed over 1,075 residential projects. That's roughly 1 project every 35 hours. Yikes.

I did in fact click on them but they don't go away.

It's gone in 2026. One of many disappointments with the new version.

I saw another post asking the same question, and I user commented that Pro 2026 does not allow for material transparency adjustment. I reposted this under a more descriptive title, hoping to catch more attention and more answers. HOW CAN THIS BE??? Not able to adjust transparency of an object??? Customizing color and transparency of glass is very important to me. Had I known about this downgrade, I would have never "upgraded" to Pro 2026! But the 2026 User Reference Manual has a whole section about material transparency, at P.793: see blow MATERIAL DEFINITIONS Textures are graphic files that represent contoured surfaces of objects such as carpet, bricks, tile, and wood in rendered views. Textures are assigned to materials which in turn are assigned to objects. See Patterns and Textures on page 732. The display of materials in rendered views is controlled by settings on the TEXTURE and PROPERTIES panels of the Define Material dialog. See Define Material Dialog on page 748. Brightness, shininess and transparency control how light sources affect the display of surfaces in rendered views. See Lighting on page 794. If no texture is selected for a material, a solid color is used instead. MATERIAL TRANSPARENCY Most materials are opaque while some materials, such as glass, are partially transparent. Transparency can be set in the Define Material dialog. See Properties Panel. Transparency is supported in all Rendering Techniques. Most Rendering Techniques, however, have an Opaque Window Glass setting that, when checked, overrides the transparency of the Glass components of exterior doors, exterior windows, and interior windows. Interior doors with Glass components are unaffected. When this box is checked, Glass components display the Material Color assigned to their material. See Rendering Technique Options on page 814. SO SOMEONE PLEEEEEASE TELL ME the function has not gone away, just accessed differently than before? Thanks! Eric Desktop Intel i5 11th-gen; 1TB Nvme stick SSD 32MB DDR4 RAM AMD Radeon RX-9070 XT 16GB graphics Just "upgraded" to Pro2026

Click on them to see what they are. They could be in reference to some framing directions.

Does anyone know how to create a backless cabinet in HD Pro 2025? I normally drag the back of the cabinet partly through the wall behind it, but I now want one with a window behind the cabinet so it can't have a back at all. It sure would be nice if this was a feature of regular cabinet configuration, or if the back could be a separate material.

How do I remove the alerts?

I found your old thread about sills. Install this and tell me if it fixes your issue: Flat Sill.calibz if it does, then let me know more specifics about the common sills you need.

I feel like you may chop my head off for saying this given your tone but the premiere line got physically based ray path-tracing 6 months before Twinmotion lumion and D5 did. Hats off to Ryan and Dan on that one. The path tracer evaluates all geometry enabled in the active camera’s layer set, not just objects directly visible in the frame. Any mesh that is turned on in the scene participates in light transport, meaning it can contribute indirect light bounces, reflections, occlusion, and shadowing, even if it is outside the camera’s view. Backdrops are HDRI capable now, they have a radiance channel if you choose the right one, and you can choose to turn off the sun and choose use the radiance from the backdrop for some really cool tonal qualities The anomaly with the chimneys etc. is no longer an issue as long as you trace for more than a single bounce. OOTB it is set to 3 tree images do not cast shadows, but they added a very large library of sharp looking optimized 3d trees most of which were built in SpeedTree which will cast shadows as well as translucency I have not used the add light tool since Chief introduced pathtraced realtime raytracing Here is a kitchen rendered in Home Designer 2026

I do not work for Chief Architect and I am not technical support, nor do I have access to anything you sent technical support, nor am I a dancing monkey ..if you feel compelled to ask me in a nice way then I might take time out of my busy schedule to help you for free. Let's start with what z-fighting issue? What sill are you putting on for exterior and interior? Does your window have a frame/sash? What settings are you applying? I couldnt reproduce any z-fighting so I would need more info Raytracing. What issue do you have with raytracing? it is working as expected for me 260106.mp4

I am NOT affiliated with Chief Architect I MAY be out of my mind BUT because I am not affiliated with or employed by Chief Architect, I cannot see any questions you have logged, if by logged you mean submitted to technical support. I would appreciate it, if for lack of a better phrase, you didn't hijack this thread, it was intended as a very kind gesture and this post seems targeted and aggressive, I was only here to be kind and give quite literally thousands of hours of work away for free. If you would like to post your questions in the forum and mention me, I could probably solve a number of your technical questions.

@Renerabbitt here, sort this this out.

Cancel your 2026 subscription and revert to HD Pro 2024. There is no HD Pro 2026. They combined all their products into one inferior, subscription-based bundle and marketed it as “The best that’s ever been seen, the world has never seen the likes before, never has it been better”