Garybills
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Sorry for not giving any details to my example but it was late and past my bedtime!!
Step to my example
1: Draw 1st Floor plan
2: Draw Basement at 120” below 1st floor
3: Build Terrain with subfloor 12” above terrain and elevation lines set at 0” at the front and back
4: Add terrain region in front of basement garage set at -120”
5: Draw retaining walls in the shape of driveway
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6: Added terrain regions at 0” and shaped to match retaining walls and around the house
7: Drew terrain feature for driveway
8: Adjusted Lower terrain region to gat driveway even with basement floor
9: Changed fill colors to show different regions
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I only have the trial version of Suite 2023, so I tried to make some notes to help you out. It's a matter of setting up the walls for the roof, especially the back sunroom for the upper pitch. I built the foundation, and the garage and sunroom floors came back. I hope this gets you on the right track.
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Can you post your plan and maybe someone can figure out what’s going on. I tried to replicate your situation but wasn’t able to. Also, what version of Home Designer are you using?
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Try this Pella window and see if it's close enough to what you're looking for. I couldn't get the Pella Catalog for HD but was able to save this one to my user catalog in Chief x15 and export it. Hopefully it will open for you.
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I don't know what version of HD you have, but some of your textures were missing when I downloaded your plan and the missing textures said HD Suite 2020. My example is HD Pro 2020 so I hope Suite will work the same. Since you started you plan on an angle your floors aren't drawing on that angle. In Plan view go to Edit, Edit Area, Edit Area (All Floors), Marquee select everything then go to transform replicate objects and rotate -15 degrees. I hope this works for you.
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Thanks Eric, my brain was thinking automatic.
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I downloaded the trail version of 2024 Architectural and there is no option to dimension to window and door centers, only interior wall centers.
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4 minutes ago, Garybills said:
Scott, I’ve had this happen a lot when you have auto rebuild roofs on and mark the one room no flat ceiling. You can drag the attic wall over and cover it up but then it hangs down in the room so you have to adjust the bottom of the wall also.
There was a post on May 2nd with a similar issue, no good results other than manually extended the gable wall.
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Scott, I’ve had this happen a lot when you have auto rebuild roofs on and mark the one room no flat ceiling. You can drag the attic wall over and cover it up but then it hangs down in the room so you have to adjust the bottom of the wall also.
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What piers are you changing, the house foundation piers or the deck piers?
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Hi Woody, I've tried to draw your example in the trail version of Home Designer Suite. The problem is with the center wall dividing the two side rooms, if you delete it the outside closes in. In Chief Premier there is an option to balloon wall through ceiling above which fixes it, but that option isn't available in suite. Also, in Suite you can't adjust the bottom of the walls you have in the picture. I'm not sure what you solution will be other than removing the center wall.
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23 hours ago, fliplewis said:
Thanks for the pointers Gary Bills.
here is the link to the current project.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ClySUBCVl6660-6bdoBFTutH00jekdEf/view?usp=share_link
I would really appreciate the knowledge on how to fix my current project. I tried adding the attic wall, but can't quite seem to get it in the right spot even with the floor reference. I think my porch might be a problem.
I looked your plan over and there are several things with walls not lined up and roof planes that aren’t parallel to the walls. I could help you sort through them but it would take some time with a zoom meeting to show you how to change things. If you’d like to contact me, give me a call or email. Thanks.
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Can't really tell from the picture, but is the area under the stairs marked open below?
Roof issues
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Here is an example I did, sorry I couldn't make a video showing how so I hope this helps.
You need this wall to be Gable to get rid of the hip roof you have.
Delete this roof plane.
Edit the main roof plane.