Angie15

You must be joking? Chief cant do a bidirectional sloping roofplane?

Anyone know how to do this in Pro 25? Should be pretty straight forward. Nope.

Not harsh at all. If you’ve been using this software as long as I have (since 2011), you’d realize it’s an incapable CA program issue as opposed to a user issue. You can use points, lines, regions etc, it makes no difference. It’s not fussy, it’s stupid. You will get spikes, dips, abnormal behaviour for nearly everything you do. Chief can’t do a gentle straight-line slope from A to B. It will hump or dip in the middle. Why? Add more retaining walls perpendicular to other retaining walls, and the software will hang for about 3 mins while it “Interpolates terrain” (only using 6% of my computer resources btw) and generates unnecessary spikes as if it doesn’t know what it’s doing. I’m using CA HD Pro 25. The use of the word “Pro” stands for Professional. These “glitches” have not been fixed since 2017 and will never be fixed because Chief took away so many controls from HD Pro and rolled it all into an inferior 26 subscription version at double the price and now support for Pro 25 is unavailable.

In my opinion, terrain controls in HD are dismal. I usually have to manually enter elevation data points (sometimes over 200 for the type of map you've shown) and even then it doesnt slope/level correctly and I also get distorted geometery and spikes. What youre asking for there, is way beyond this softwares capability. You'll also reach a point where the software is "unable" to calculate the terrain data, and EVERY change you make will result in a pop-up saying "Interopolating/calculating terrain" for about 15 seconds. (even if you just change the colour of something, and regardless of your PC specifications.

Its even easier with timber-frame actually, but its difficult to get air-tight and insulate properly though, so very few modern houses have them.

It’s been done in Europe for hundreds of years, easily framed. It’s usually a stud wall on the interior. You don’t need a custom symbol from the premier line . This is how I do mine in Pro 25 but its been the same from Pro 21. In this image its a 350mm block/stone wall. Break the block wall at the width of your window. Change that wall to the same depth as your window. Draw a new stud/plasterboard on the interior of that and it will cut the block wall.

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

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”

@RenerabbittYou're out of your mind if you think this 2026 release is worth more than bog roll. Chief Architect has actually REMOVED several functions and controls from HD Pro 2025. Since you’re so affiliated with Chief Architect, maybe you could look into all my technical questions I’ve logged that cant be resolved?

Chiefs terrain elevation controls are stupid. Extend the elevation lines all the way to the end of the terrain and then add another duplicate elevation line at the back of the house to flatten it out.

The Gable Porch entrance extends further forward than the other other exterior walls. "Flat angled roof" is a pefectly acceptable description, and any experienced architect would know exactly what you mean and how to incorporate it. Unfortunately, the easiest is to manually build those roofs, because its probably beyond HD Pro's capabability to autobuild, but even if you purchased premier, you'd still have to manually build it.

Select the front GF wall, change it to a hip wall. select the left side bearing wall and change it to a high shed wall. Tell first floor to ignore roof (or in chiefs case, 2nd floor.) The back wall roof pitch will determine the roof and attic walls for the 4 horizontal windows, but my bet is that you'll have to build this manually, its beyond HD Pro. Its even beyond Premier. Its a manual build.

Yes I do realize that, and do you know what else, it doesn't work when your walls are 350mm plus thick, it leaves feckin holes everywhere that you have to fill with soffits and wedges and soffits and more soffits and celings and more soffits only to realize you cant use soffits because they don't span ceilings and walls and then have to change to shapes which keep snapping by default to the to the terrain!

In two fecking years nothing has changed. The software still does not use my GPU, yet it takes me 45seconds to make a change in PRB

I understand that , but unfortunately chief sucks at both. It sucks at dpi export as well as ppi.