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Here is a suggestion that trades bathroom space for privacy. You could use a pocket door between the public and private areas too. If you wanted a larger bath, bump out the outside wall. And I noticed your roof baseline -- it should be over the outside edge of the main layer of that outside wall, not floating out in space.

I'm going to suggest you start over. Make what's now level 0, level 1, and so on. Start a new plan, set your floor defaults, build a new blank floor setting its defaults, then copy/paste hold position from plan to plan. Use Edit>Reset To Defaults and choose wall top and bottom heights. You have manually adjusted many of the wall top and bottom heights. When you do this, the program will no longer automatically change them. You have turned off auto rebuild deck framing, so the deck does not automatically lower. Try to work with the program instead of against it. You now know what pitch you need for the roof, so it should be set to auto build. Changing floor settings in defaults should work -- except for all the manual adjustments you have made.

Only the Chief Architect branded products have schedules. You might experiment with the Materials List.

Read about Garden Beds.

Draw a wall in the attic. Set Roof Cuts Wall At Bottom. You may need to move the roof planes.

Always best to attach the plan file for problems like this.

See if this thread helps. It's from 2106, so you may be able to open the plan file. If not, you might want to download the Chief trial. https://chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com/topic/11007-sink-partition-showing

Take a look at this plan I did for a Chief user. ChiefUserBigRob Brick on Foundation.zip

Attach your plan file -- close Suite first, and someone will look.

Are you asking about Ray Trace?

Watch on YouTube: http://youtu.be/x7LOdY5yBzc?hd=1

You are probably seeing the brick ledge from the 1st floor walls. Don't know why it's like that, but changing the foundation wall fixes it.

What type of defaults do you want to set? Some defaults are dynamic -- change the default and things change in the plan, some are not. My initial guess is that you should create a template with your current plan, then using Edit Area, copy/paste from each older plan to a new one created from the template. There is no export/import defaults or layer sets in Home Designer.

Not sure what you are asking. I did a video on templates that may help. If not, ask.

You install on a new computer just as you did on the old one. What is "need to shut down program"?.

This is a scissor truss. the roof pitch and the ceiling pitch are different. When using windows that are angled on top -- which pitch do you match? If you match the ceiling, they look good from the inside, but not from the exterior.

Might want to check with the builder about roof construction. If using trusses, like maybe a scissor truss, that may impact window placement. Probably should be looking from the inside out too.

FrontOfHouse A.zip

You won't be doing them with Pro, so you will need another program to model these features and then import them. SketchUp is popular with many and creates symbols that are usable in Pro. Another example done with Premier. Note the wall curving into the casing and the curved base. Maybe you need a corbel or bracket -- simple in Premier, not possible in Pro.

You really need Premier to model these things, and it still will not be easy. Here is a simple example that was fairly easy, but it uses tools not available in Home Designer.

Two plans each with a different roof. You cannot change the roof, but should be able to change other things. FrontOfHouse.zip

Lots of good info in the links below. I'd start on YouTube with the hour long webinars. Resources for self help: The built in Help System (always a good place to start) Getting Started Knowledge Base YouTube

Like this -- just the roof. Do you have plans for this house?

That's because there is no pitch associated with a gable wall. Pitch is set in the walls under the low point of a roof plane (where the roof plane baseline is).