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room divider, that was it!!! Thank you!

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Ive been struggling to figure out how to change the room type for about an hour. Im looking to designate more of my dining area to the kitchen as the dining room will have a vaulted ceiling. How is this done?

Is there a way to replicate this in home designer architectural?

The only controls available to you for that are resident in the Railing Specification Box for each railing wall, take a careful look, please. DJP

S/W: Home Designer Pro 2024 Ok, so I have some railings within my house, and they do have newels connecting them at various spots. I have those in the plan ok BUT the bottom rail seems not to connect correctly when there are newels in place. See below for what I am talking about. Any settings or tricks to correct this? I have exhausted my ideas so far. If it matters, here is the plan view: And without newels the bottom rail is correct/complete: Cheers, Tony.

Just draw the plan once with no basement finish. Then copy the plan, keep just the basement level and finish to your hearts content. Submit it when the time comes. It will be much easier than anything else you're trying to come up with. You could have drawn it in the 2 days since you first asked about it.

Thats precisely why im looking to design all of it in 1 file, but turn off the basement buildout until later.

I have Home Designer Pro 2021 as well and can not find the Cleanouts or Hookups, Pumps & Valves categories under Plumbing Equipment. Is there a different library I need to download and install? I've tried downloading new core and reference files, but still does not show up.

Hello! I'm new to Home Designer. I'm trying to add an auto dormer to a 12:12 pitch roof attic space. As you can see in the attached picture, I have a gap between the dormer and the roof. I assume this is some simple setting, but I'm too new to know. Why do I have the gap between the dormer and the roof? I am using Home Designer Pro 2024 on a MacBook Pro. The second story roof is set to ignore top (2nd) floor. The interior walls are set to knee walls. Thank you!

Something else to think about is that, depending on where you live, if you submit a plan with the finished basement on it, and don't do it in the first build, your occupancy permit may be delayed until it's done. Some locales won't issue the final sign off if the project is not built with everything done that was submitted. So I would keep your finished basement to submit when you are ready to do it and get a separate permit for it.

Thanks for the suggestions!

Because my hard copy plans are on white paper - I have used fill patches in solid white to screen areas, both in layout and plan, that I couldn't turn of in layers; Have the polyline colour of the fill same colour to hide it, shape it to suit. There is a layer Walls, foundation on floor 0 - which is perimeter walls..... Food for thought there.

Lot easier to do 2 plans

I was hoping there would be an alternative.

Thanks @Rookie65Architectural does have 3 different kind of Pony Walls - straight, curved, and straight glass. I just don't see how to change my foundation walls to that type. Could architectural support that wall type but not for foundation walls? Well, I can delete each wall after creating the foundation and then draw a pony wall in it's place. There just doesn't seem to be a way to specify that type when building the foundation. Additionally, I can select any foundation wall and open the dialog and change to almost any other type - just pony walls aren't an option. Anyway, deleting each and recreating as a ponywall is not too hard. I also changed the pony wall default to match what I want. It just seems like kind of a bug to allow the functionality but make it "look" like it isn't an option for a foundation wall.

Check help or your reference manual

Thanks @Rookie65Architectural does have 3 different kind of Pony Walls - straight, curved, and straight glass. I just don't see how to change my foundation walls to that type. Could architectural support that wall type but not for foundation walls?

Pony wall is how you do it. I don't know if Architectural has that option. If not, you may want to consider upgrading to Pro.

I have HD Architectural 2024 and am trying to build out my raised ranch basement as concrete roughly 44" high and then framing - siding on the outside and drywall on the inside. I can't seem to find how to do this. I even looked in foundation defaults, but I didn't see an option to do this such as using a pony wall - if that is what I should do. I'm not an architect obviously. How should I do this?

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Sorry fixed my own problem, missed room types on the first floor.

It has been a while since I sat down and used HDPro, recently upgraded to 2024. I tried to create a 1.5 floor design with an attic. For some reason, the siding is omitted at the 2nd floor platform. All framing is turned on, I used a 36” high knee wall for the attic walls. Specified the area as attic. How do I fix this to generate the siding? Thanks!

Could anyone help me in finding a solution to the issue with the length of the roof overhangs for the 2 short walls which has decreased? Following the adjustment of the inclination to 31.73 degrees, the roof overhangs of the two short walls decreased to 0.57 meters from their original length of 1 m. For the 4 walls, a hipped roof calls for a roof overhang of 1 meter.

You'll probably have to do it as 2 separate plans. Depending on where you are in the design, keep one with the finished basement, then do the other with all of the house notes and info on it.