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Window and door handing is always determined looking at a window from the exterior of the home. In the software, for a left sliding window, the right part slides to the left.

Have you reviewed this comparison? All the products are available for download as a free trial.

Sink with a slab in it. Slab material set to water.

Just take a custom countertop, or a slab, and shape it to have a hole in the center. Think of a straight piece of wire -- bend it around until it forms the desired shape. You end up with the 2 ends butted together,

You can put a slab in the tub and change its material to Water.

Home Designer lacks many of the tools you find in Chief Architect, like the ability to make holes from a polyline. Also, the screencast link does not work.

No. You could build the parts in SketchUp then use them within the program. You might search the 3D Warehouse for already made symbols.

This is a 36" cabinet with a 12" on top. Looks OK to me in a standard view. Have you checked the bonus and manufacturer catalogs available? ----------- Resources for self help: The built in Help System (always a good place to start) Getting Started Knowledge Base YouTube

With Pro, suggest you learn the manual roof tools. You will gain control, and find them to be easier in many cases than trying to auto build the roof. There are good videos on YouTube from Chief, and also David Potter. Resources for self help: The built in Help System (always a good place to start) Getting Started Knowledge Base YouTube

I don't see a need for the Gable Roof Line tool. Why are you using it?

Correct. After doing the first, I used the Transform/Replicate tool to copy at a fixed distance along the wall. A slab can have a footing, but it takes on the material of the slab, so when painting the slab as block, the footings also appear as block, so I made them separately as slabs. You could create an Architectural Block of the 2 pieces and then use it for the interior.

This plan should give you some ideas. The piers need to be added manually. bdfulbright.plan

Without the plan file I can't answer, but will suggest you switch to building a manual dormer. You will gain control and be able to do what you want.

You are using an auto dormer?

There is a footing that supports the piers and curtain?

You will need to place piers manually. Could you post a picture showing the foundation you want to model? I'm wondering how the Curtain fits.

I'm not able to reproduce your problem, but I'm not using the same version either. Try taking an elevation of the problem wall. Select the wall and drag the bottom down as needed.

My impression of that tool is it's designed to work more like a paper sketch, rather than something to create a carefully dimensioned plan.

The Chief Architect forum is ChiefTalk.

When you are in the camera view, you must turn the Framing, Post layer. As I said above, layers are set on a per view basis, and framing is not normally shown in camera views.

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Every view has its own set of layers. The layers displayed in plan have no relationship to the layers displayed in a camera view. They need to be on in both. If that is not the problem, post your plan file via More Reply Options, Choose File, Attach File. Make sure it's not open in Pro. As for upgrading to X8. I encourage you to download and work with the trial. You will find it to be just like Pro, but with more features and options. Also visit the Chief forum, where there are quite a few x AutoCAD users. You can do much with Pro, Premier just makes many things easier and faster.

Is your ceiling really so low in the existing house?

Roof Cuts Wall At Bottom

Glad that worked. Manual roof planes are easy once you get some practice. Pro also has, I believe, the Transform/Replicate tool which can be used to move them precisely in any direction. And Overgaard has been here for about 80 years. Between Payson and Show Low, about 4 hours east of Prescott.