Garybills

On 9/8/2025 at 2:20 PM, Vikki_WA said:

I upgraded to HD 2026, then cancelled 2 days later after discovering that features available in my HD Pro 2025 were no longer available in the new version. Unfortunately, I saved a couple of my favorite plans in the new version and now they won't open in the previous version. Has anyone found a way around this other than having to revert to an old archived version? 

@Vikki_WAJust curious, what's not available that your wanting? I haven't used HDP for several years, but I downloaded the trial version and compared it to 2021 and seems like things are about the same with more options. It did start up with Project Managment on and it's a lot different, but it can be turned off and it works like previous versions. I've been using Premier X17 and once I got use to the project management, I really like it. You can't revert to 2023 but give the new version a try and you might like it. 

If you built the soffit on the first floor, try building it on the second floor.

@tcutrona Check you display options and make sure your ceiling surface layer is turned on.

@DarrellHaunHave you tried Reset Options in Preferences?

Since you already have the rooms drawn you will need to divide some of them with room divider. Then set the floor structure of the front rooms. 

@MississippiMims Is this what you are wanting? I started with footings and foundation walls on everything then changed the back section to basement. I then changed the front section floor structure to concrete. I lowered the one wall so you can see the slab built out over the foundation wall. 

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.

I don't think it can be done in Suite, but it can in HDP.

See if you can use this file, I just went by your dimensions and remember not to turn on auto rebuild roofs.

692790820_NewAddition_2024 (1).plan

If I had more information and maybe a sketch of what you’re wanting it to look like, I could see if it can be done. With HDS you are so limited on what you can do with roofs it’s hard to do a custom roof. 

@AllDoneHM Is this what you're trying to do? If it is you can do it but it's a little complicated.

The only thing I can't do is edit the two walls inside.

You do already have a 2nd floor, and your roof is marked to ignore the 2nd floor.

@BobWilTry this, draw a straight pony wall somewhere outside of the plan. Use the object eyedropper and select the pony wall and then click on the walls you want to change. I used HDA 2025 trial version.

Without knowing how you drew the post and beam, this is a half wall, and I used a shelf to make the beams and post. I don't have 2022 but this is in 2024 trail.

@davidmurray select the back deck railing and open the roof specification and mark it as Dutch Gable.

@btushaus If you're not able to get everything to work, attached is a copy of your plan I fixed the roof in Chief, and it can be edited in HDA. Just remember you can't edit the roof and if you turn on auto roofs you will loss what I did. good luck.

Sophia4 edit.plan

@btushaus After @Jo_Ann posted I had to try again. I got the front, but the back gets close with a hip on the end. If I change it to a Gable, it makes brings back the strange looking gable wall. Maybe Jo-Ann can figure out the back with the rest of the plan.

@btushaus I looked at your plan and I don't think you can get the roof to build in HDA without being able to manually edit the roof planes. Someone else may know a way but it looks like Home Designer Pro would be needed. You could try and get someone with HDP or Chief Premier to fix the roof and send the plan back to you. 

I don't know if you found a solution, but I had to open it in Chief Architect Premier and delete the cad line. I saved the plan and marked it to be edited in HD. Not sure why it can't be selected in HD. @RunsWithHammers

Dormer4 edit.plan

Maybe you accidentally marked some walls as no room definition and it thinks there just one big room? Just a guess without seeing the plan.

@WarwickB I don't know if you figured it out yet, but your plan is built on the second floor, and you have a blank 1st floor. Delete the black first floor and rebuild the terrain.

This is in Architectural 2024 trial so I couldn't send the plan file back to you and you can get there with some work. Like you said above there will be a lot of water coming down the side wall, I made that section a 4/12 pitch kind of like a cricket. The main gable roof is on the second floor and the four small gables front and back are on the first floor. The section to the right I lowered to get the look you showed. Anyway, there's my 2 cents!!!

This is Suite 2023. Try using a cylinder from the core catalog, shapes, cylinders. There may be another way but that's all I could find.

Hey Rock, are you wanting something like this picture? If you have a dimension on the PDF, you can use the point to point resize to scale the PDF.

This is HDP, I don't know what version you are using. You can change the dimension defaults from wall layers to surface and also change from the primary side to the secondary side of the walls.

The wall definitions you can dimension to the plasterboard layer.

41 minutes ago, OldUncleMikey said:

Hi, Gary - I'm using Home Designer Pro 2024 build 25.3.0.77

Hey Mike, when I put the sink in the cabinet it works right, I made a custom countertop and I did like yours. Yours looks like a custom countertop so I put 3 cabinets together, left the countertops on them and then added the custom top behind them. That worked best because trying to cut the custom top around the sink doesn’t look as good. Hope that make sense and helps.