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I may not understand what you are trying to do, but it looks like you are wanting to extend the existing roof planes to meet so they form a new gable. Could you be more specific about what you don't understand -- or what I don't understand -- or both?

I believe you upgraded to Pro so you could get your roof done without the workarounds required by the other Home Designer products. Pro has manual roof tools that you need to learn in order to build your roof. David has videos on his YouTube channel that will help, and there are also some good ones on the Chief Architect channel. Learn the tools, then apply what you have learned to your model.

You have found the Home Designer Forum. I'd contact Chief directly, but you can find the Chief Architect forum here.

What is a "reflected" plan?

Cabinets in Pro can only have one type of door, unless changed in 2017.

Another good tip Jo Ann. Also seems to mostly work in Plan view, although I never could select an upper cabinet in a kitchen.

Select all the cabinets, right click on them, select Make Architectural Block. This groups them together and you can add them to the library. You must unblock to make changes.

Please post your plan file.

I was asking for your plan file, not pictures of the plan. Too many variables to guess at without the plan. Also, please post images directly, not a PDF of an image.

As a question, this should go in Q&A. Tips & Techniques is for tips and techniques. Do you want the lower double top plate? -- as opposed to a single. Please post a plan file that illustrates the problem.

The uninstall procedure should ask if you want to keep (or not delete) your user data (plans), but you might want to make a copy of them, or rename the folder where they are.

Select Open Plan, navigate to its location and select it. "Do you want to associate plans" is only asked when you install the program. Plans don't get associated with an application, it's the other way around. HD does have a default plan directory for each version of the product, but you may place your plans anywhere.

Keith -- This is my understanding on why you are getting the annoying popups (I get them too). Lets say you install HD for the first time -- no HD product is already on your system. One thing the installer does is associate the ".plan" file extension with that HD product so when you double click a file with that extension, it opens in the associated HD application. This is standard procedure for programs to do this. Now you upgrade, and install a newer version. The installer does the same, associating the new version with the ".plan" file extension. Associating a file extension with a specific program requires special privileges and Windows will ask for them when a program tries to do this. Now you have 2 versions of HD installed, with the newer one being the default. You decide to use the older version and when run, it checks to see if it is the default application for ".plan" files. It's not, so it tries to set itself as the default which requires elevated privileges, thus the popup asking you to grant the permission. This is very bad programming practice. What should happen is the program pops up a message stating "Program is not the default for plan files, do you want to set it as the default (Y/N). It should also provide the option "Don't show this message again". In your case, each time you use 2014, it sets itself to the default, then you use 2016 and it sets itself to the default. I would uninstall 2014 and be done with it. In short, the location of the plan files has nothing to do with the messages you are getting.

Do a file copy or move from where they are now to the new directory. Or open them from where they are now, and do a Save As to the new directory.

Not sure what you are asking specifically -- pictures always help, but maybe you will see your answer in one of these. The stair tools need improvement, but can usually do the job, sometimes easily, sometimes not.

Chief has it, and I've suggested they add it to Pro.

Mathematics.

F6 is tied to the Fill Window command. Not sure what you are expecting when you say "re-sets the camera view".

You might report your concern to tech support.

Search the Library for "frame". Once you find one, right click it and choose Show in Browser. You will be in the area of Picture Frames. The other two are Wall Panels.

I don't think you can make your own, but consider using a picture frame as a stand in.

This gable end where it blends with the hip is not easy for the program to build. Not sure if this is how it really is, but here is my take on it.

Set the floor height to -24.

The auto roof builder often fails on what seems to be a simple roof. You can spend much time trying to trick it into building the roof you need, or you can use the manual roof tools that come with Pro. Here is your plan with an all hip roof, done manually by moving the edges of the auto generated roof planes so they align correctly. Roof issue (eric).plan I'll leave changing the hips to gables as needed to you.

I would model the foundation differently. You have a 32" floor structure which is not how the house will be built. It should be shown as a slab on stem walls.