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Have you turned Temporary Dimensions off? Look under the View menu.

Have you reviewed the info available on the Home Designer web site, searched the forum and checked the videos on YouTube? If you don't need something exact, you might be able to trace the drawing after importing the PDF.

Here is your wall. You changed its structure. You moved the siding into the main layer, and then in Wall Settings, told the program to go to the exterior of layer 1, which is part of the main layer. You have told the program there is nothing -- siding, drywall, sheathing etc outside the main layer, so there is nothing to cover the gap. The program uses this info to align walls vertically too. You should understand the side effects of changes.

Here is my suggestion. Change the wall definition to remove unwanted fills and lines. This preserves alignments and only changes how the walls display in plan. It's not perfect -- if you are displaying grids (snap or reference) you will see the white lines.

Yes You might be able to do this via Layer Display Options.

I don't understand. What material? What's wrong with the out of the box wall? When you change layers, you frequently need to change some of the things circled. (image from Chief, not HD) I believe F5 will rebuild 3D, or select Rebuild 3D from the 3D menu.

You have changed your wall definition. Look at the Siding-4 wall to compare. What are you trying to accomplish by changing the wall?

Did you upload a different plan? This is what I see.

Are you asking about the gap between the foundation and first floors where there would normally be your first floor, floor framing?

Thanks for posting your plan. Images are also helpful. Without them, someone must download the plan, open it and search for this issue. There are 3 types of prospective overview cameras too.

A gable refers to a wall, or where a wall might be. Your door, for example, has a gable wall above it. What you have is generally referred to a cross gable roof. What I think you are trying to describe is how you want the RIDGE line to run. In the image, I've marked your two ridge lines in red and green. You want the red ridge higher than the green? Tip: Use a screen capture tool to capture your images instead of a camera.

You can't figure what out? How are you building this roof -- auto or manual? What specifically is the problem -- what needs to change to make the roof correct? It's always good to attach your plan file as it can answer many questions. Have you reviewed the help resources I linked in your previous thread? Read the Tutorial and Reference Manual found under help? It's a bit confusing when someone references Chief Architect, as it's also the name of their flagship software. We often have people using Chief post here when they should be posting on ChiefTalk.

Are you a Pro 2018 user?

Not for this roof. Were you able to build it? If it were me, I'd keep the new roof aligned with the main roof. You will end up with a narrow space between the 2 that's not accessible with the lowered porch roof.

Check your Layer Display Options for Space Planning Boxes. You should be able to turn them back on.

Walls don't control ceiling height, ceiling height, and the roof control walls. What is right? I'm not even sure where the porch is. I subtracted 12" from the ceiling height and auto built the roof -- did I guess correctly? Have you upgraded to Pro?

You can't really delete a floor structure. I've not looked at the plan, but imagine you have walls that are not connected together forming a room, or one or more walls is marked No Room Definition. Check those two things and post back if you still have an issue.

The program does not know what a helical pier is. What are you trying to do?

24 hours is 1 day, and this is Monday, so support is working on things submitted from Friday evening until today. They normally respond within one to two days. There are 20,000 registered users on ChiefTalk, and over 14,000 here on HomeTalk. Imagine the workload if just a small fraction of these people contacted support. When you bought Home Designer, you did not buy help from support -- they are there for bug reports. Support is this forum -- user to user. I pay extra every year for enhanced support for Chief Premier, but it's not for tutoring. My advice is to post your questions/issues here.

The "better solution" is called Chief Architect Premier.

They never are, unfortunately. New Home Designer versions usually arrive April/May I believe.

You want to fill in with walls where I show the red outlines? Turn off the railings, use shapes as I suggested above to fill in. So it looks something like this.

Like this?

Depends on the desk, and you.

To use auto built roofs, you need a 2nd floor with a short ceiling height. The 2nd floor can be open below if you want. After the roof is correct you can turn off auto build and make changes as needed without the roof changing. Or, you can do this with a single floor. Place a divider wall, raise the ceiling height.