CarrieS

The link your provided appears to be broken so I'm going to be guessing a bit here. What version of Home Designer are you using? If you have one of the newer versions (2026/2027) or Home Designer Pro you might be able to achieve what you're looking for using the techniques in this article: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-01958/creating-an-arched-parapet-wall.html You wont be able to do the curved roof plane that the article shows (It's a Chief Architect article) but if you're just going to have multiple elevations or a gable, using multiple roof planes would work for controlling the wall heights quickly If you need the curve you could have multiple roof planes like this article shows: https://www.homedesignersoftware.com/support/article/KB-01187/creating-a-barrel-roof-in-home-designer.html Another technique you might use is to break the wall polylines and adjust the wall edge manually, which is sometimes faster sometimes slower depending on the shape. If you use the roof planes though you can use them for creating finished edges instead of leaving raw framing exposed. Hope this helps!

Did you try right clicking on the file in the project browser?

Hi @Browneye The Cantilever underside only applies if your room overhangs the lower floor. You don't need to really worry about it unless you have that scenario. Though looking closer at it, we don't model actual geometry for that underside surface so it isn't included in the Material List. Carrie

Hi @KTBuilder Home Designer does not have the ability to tell a layout box to look at a different plan. You will need to delete the view from the layout page and send the view again from the new plan.

Perhaps these tutorials will help? https://www.homedesignersoftware.com/support/article/KB-01020/creating-multiple-shed-roofs.html https://www.homedesignersoftware.com/support/article/KB-00359/automatically-building-the-basic-roof-styles.html https://www.homedesignersoftware.com/videos/watch/2237/automatic-roofs.html

This article covers the Automatic Trusses of newer versions as well as Manual Trusses from earlier versions. Hope this helps! https://www.homedesignersoftware.com/support/article/KB-00981/creating-roof-trusses.html

As Rene mentioned the right elevation doesn't match the front so I can't make it "match" what you want but here's what I came up with using some manual manipulation.

I typically create a pie shaped stairwell. https://www.homedesignersoftware.com/support/article/KB-00125/creating-moving-and-deleting-stairwells.html

It looks like something about this particular scenario prevents the "Match Roof" setting from detecting the roof slope. Placing a window in one of the outside walls, setting it to "Match Roof" and then copying it to the desired location would work since the pitches are the same. Or manually typing in the desired left and right heights in the Window Specification> Shape panel would also work. When you encounter scenarios like this, where it appears you've done everything correctly but the software is not working as expected don't forget that we have a Technical Support Team willing to help. They have a direct line to our developers and can report anomalous behavior so we can improve the software. https://www.homedesignersoftware.com/support/ https://www.homedesignersoftware.com/support/article/KB-00717/using-the-technical-support-center.html Carrie

I'm not entirely certain what you're asking, but if the question is "how to control the material under the cantilevered area?" You can control what material displays on the underside by opening the Room Specification for the upper floor room and going to the Materials panel.

An easier way to do this in Home Designer Pro would be to: 1. Turn on the Origin Indicator for plan views (Preferences> Coordinate System) 2. Use the Edit Area All Floors tool to group select everything (Edit> Edit Area> Edit Area (All Floors)) 3. Use the Point to Point Move tool to pick a point in your selection to move to the Origin. This article outlines the part about Edit Area: https://www.homedesignersoftware.com/support/article/KB-03124/troubleshooting-origin-error-messages.html This article was created for Chief Architect but we have the Point to Point Move tool in Home Designer Pro. https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00734/using-the-point-to-point-move-tool.html You'll still want to inspect your plan for anomalies since there are a lot of interactions between structural elements, but you shouldn't have many with this process. Carrie

Retaining walls typically slope with the terrain around them. This article's main image shows an example of this: https://www.homedesignersoftware.com/support/article/KB-00990/creating-a-retaining-wall.html If you need to make the wall slope differently than the terrain, you could use the wall polyline to change the shape of the retaining wall if you have Home Designer Pro, like we show in this article: https://www.homedesignersoftware.com/support/article/KB-01809/creating-a-stepped-foundation.html Carrie

Hi, That definitely seems like odd behavior. If you could send the plan with the problem into our Technical Support Center, we'd love to take a closer look for you. https://www.homedesignersoftware.com/support/article/KB-00717/using-the-technical-support-center.html Carrie

We have updated Home Designer 2025 to resolve this without downloading the certificate manually. If you have a Home Designer 2025 product and updating to the latest version doesn't resolve it for you please give Technical Support a call. Thanks!

Hi Andrew, It looks like you need to lower the elevation of your garage using the Floor and Ceiling Heights of the Garage. You'll need to do this for both the 0 level and the 1st level. This article has the process: https://www.homedesignersoftware.com/support/article/KB-00564/displaying-detached-buildings-at-different-elevations.html Hope this helps! Carrie