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Have you checked the bonus libraries?

What is a "foundation peir"? Have you checked your defaults?

From someone at Chief Architect (and Home Designer) posted on ChiefTalk on an upgrade order, a human has to manually verify your information which can only be done during business hours. We don't have to manually verify any new orders as long as you provide a valid payment.

Watch on YouTube: http://youtu.be/GT3Xjjmi8eQ?hd=1

See Lower Wall Type When Split By Butting Roof in Help.

That's a computer question, not a Pro question. You move them like any other file. There are lots of ways.

That's it. It looks like with Pro, after you open the Layout, you will need to do a Save As, giving it the plan name and placing it in the same directory as the plan. Otherwise you will overwrite the layout.

Make sure you are searching the Home Designer KB and not the one for Chief Architect. Profile.layout is the default layout file. You can save anywhere (I think), but I'd save in the default directory. Open file -- change to Layout and select the one you want.

If you are considering the upgrade, the trial is free. Why not download it and experiment?

Floors are not tied to structures. Go to the 2nd floor and draw walls above the garage, or anywhere else, and they will be on the 2nd floor.

Do you already have a 2nd floor?

That's the default. When you build the 2nd floor, you have the ability to make the ceiling height (and wall height) whatever you want. Using auto built roofs, you will need to turn them off and raise the ceiling height. You can build the roof and set Ignore Top Floor. It depends on how the home will be built. Will the roof sit on the 1st floor walls or on the 2nd floor deck? Just think about how the program works and how and where it builds roof planes. Also, search the Home Designer website for Cape Cod.

Did you build a 2nd floor? You cannot build rooms on the Attic level.

It's on the 2nd floor. I see no roof in the middle of the first-floor area. It helps if you post images of the problems (screen captures).

I don't think Home Designer or Chief will create the railing using their automated tools. You could with some work, manually create it in Chief. One big advantage of Chief is its various tools you can use to create things from scratch. I just did this curved coffered ceiling in Chief. A bit tedious, but not difficult. You would need a 2nd program like SketchUp to replicate this in Home Designer.

Chief Premier Pro does a good job at roofs. The PolyLine Union tool I referenced above is just a convenience as it saves you from deleting and then extending an existing roof plane.

It's not in Pro. I forget how limited the Home Designer products are. Glad the video was helpful.

That's an auto generated attic wall that spans from the ceiling to the roof. What were you expecting? Raise the deck room ceiling to make it go away.

Not in Home Designer. Google 3D Warehouse for similar symbols.

Watch on YouTube: http://youtu.be/NOcDVfC-XF8?hd=1

Go around and use the Join command to join each roof plane edge to the one next to it.

Is Monolithic Slab checked? Post the plan for better ideas.

Ceiling Over This Room

Divide the space with a wall. Lower/raise the floor.