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@OddBall1958 If you are using windows, the Snipping Tool allows you to take screen captures so no need to print and scan. @DJP The OP wanted gables on the short sides of the house. I'm not sure this is doable in anything but Pro.

There is no Bay or Boxed Window in your image. Just a curved wall with windows.

Libraries are global -- they are there for all plans, so you should not need to reinstall. Normally, new libraries are available immediately.

I just noticed your sig says you have Pro. Did you upgrade? Some of the walls on the second floor are marked No Room Definition, probably because they are walls automatically generated by the program. You need to clear this checkbox on some of the walls in order to get a room definition. When you have anything selected, Ctrl-E opens the Specification Dialog Box. Double clicking on an item does the same, and so does selecting something, then opening it with the Open Object icon found in the Edit Toolbar. For each wall around an area that has no room definition, open it, and make sure No Room Definition is not checked. You will find this setting in the General panel. Shift-Select -- Lets say you want to select all the windows on the first floor to make a change to all of them at once. Click the Window Tool -- the icon you click to place a window. Now holding the Shift Key, marquee around the entire plan. You have now selected all the windows. Ctrl-E, or the Open Object tool will open the Window Specification Dialog, and you will be able to make changes to all the windows at once. You can do the same thing with cabinets, only you will need to select the type of cabinet. To select all the base cabinets, click the Base Cabinet icon as if you were going to place a base cabinet, then hold the shift key while marqueeing around the cabinets you wish to select. Walls are a bit of an exception, as you can only select all walls, not walls of specific type. I suspect you selected more than just walls by not holding the shift key down while drawing the marquee. Anyway, the idea is, no matter how you do it, is to clear the No Room Definition checkbox on some of the walls in order to get a room definition. I was giving you a shortcut to do all the walls at once, but one at a time gets you to the same place.

1) Wall Tool -- The Icon you click to choose a wall type. 2) You don't have room definitions on the 2nd floor where they are needed because some of the walls are marked No Room Definition. Click the Wall Tool, hold the Shift key and draw a selection marquee around all the 2nd floor to select all the walls. Ctrl-E to open and clear the checkbox for No Room Definition. 3) You can change the grid to be whatever you want in Default Settings>Plan. Also, when you select a wall, look in the Edit Toolbar. You may see an icon that looks like a bar with either an up or down pointing arrow. If you see this, then the wall is misaligned with the one above or below. Click the icon to move the wall into alignment.

Pro cost $495.00 not $295.00. There is no Home Designer product that cost $295.00. If you in fact purchased and received Suite, I believe you can simply upgrade from Suite to Pro by paying the difference in price. That may be the simplest solution. Go to your Digital Locker. It will show what you purchased.

There are plenty of good videos in the links below. David also has a bunch on his YouTube channel. Finding that Break Tool was a challenge for me too. Every video I watched just said "click the break tool", which I only knew as the Wall Break Tool. Finally someone said specifically "in the Edit Toolbar". It's stupid to have two Break Tools, and I have requested that they be combined. 3 on the keyboard is the same Break, and 2 on the keyboard is the Join Tool.

All I could find on the Pella site were .rfa files. From Chieftalk: Toto only supplies *.rfa models, which are Revit native and not importable to CA. Try searching Trimble 3D Warehouse for an skp or dae file of the fixture you're looking for. You my also ask somebody here to open the rfa file in 3ds Max and export as 3ds or obj for import to CA. Marvin is good to supply Home Designer compatible files.

Can't answer your question, but there is a Pella catalog available for Chief. Maybe they will someday make this type of catalog available to Home Designer users for a nominal fee. Are you looking for something unique that you can't simulate with a stock window?

You upgrade to Chief Premier This ability was only recently added. You can setup your defaults so that finishes, doors etc will be used when you place a new cabinet. Use the Material Eyedropper to copy finishes from one to another. Once one cabinet is as you want, you can copy and paste.

Chief has made some catalogs available for purchase for use in the Home Designer products. You will see a price noted if that option is available. Be sure to select your product at the top of the page.

Here is a plan that shows how I might start. The floor is at 0", so everything goes up, or down, from there. I'm sure you will need to adjust the foundation to meet your requirements, but you will see the idea. It would really be best to set your defaults so this or something similar is the result. You could then rebuild the foundation at any time and not need to reset things afterword. tim 1.plan Floor Finish is a thickness, so in a garage it's normally 0".

Just think of that one as practice. You should be able to draw it again quickly since it's a small simple model. The program works best when the platforms (floors and ceilings) are set up correctly from the start. As for the lines (second floor ceiling), you might try turning off the Ceiling Plane layer. Raise the ceiling, or turn off Ceiling Over This Room.

I'd start by starting over. You want the garage slab to be at 0, not some negative number. I imagine the RV bay does not need the curb all around it, so it will need some different foundation settings. You could simply edit the foundation walls in an elevation view. Select one and drag the top down. For the gable walls over the beam -- those walls are building as a result of the walls below. Walls don't understand the beam, so you will need to draw in your own attic wall. The horizontal lines are showing the ceiling. Raise the ceiling and they will mostly go away.

Start by resetting roof directives in walls to the default. Edit>Reset To Defaults. Select All Floors, and Roof Directives In Walls. For each room under the flat roof, uncheck Roof Over This Room. Now build the roof. You should get a roof correctly built over the original house. I suspect the ceiling height under the flat roof is lower than in the rest of the house. You will lower the roof plane after it is drawn to match. Turn off auto rebuild roofs and set the pitch in the Build Roof dialog to match the flat roof. Draw in a manual roof plane, starting over the far outside wall of the family room, and continue until it's close to the house. Select it, open it and change its baseline height to match the height of the wall it was drawn over. Now join it to the roof on the house. You can try an automatic join, but it may not do what you expect. Select the edge of the flat roof plane nearest the house, press the 2 key (2 is the Join Roof command, 3 is the Break Line command) the select the roof plane on the house to join to. I'm sure you will need to do some cleanup and adjustments to get things correct, but you should be close. Post back with questions.

Check the Ignore Room Moldings checkbox in the soffit specification DBX.

In this situation, I would set the Newels/Balusters Spacing parameter to something greater the the total length of the railing. This will eliminate all but the two end post -- which your drawn in post will cover. I don't see a break in the railing for stairs, but if needed, just place and size a doorway in the railing to create the opening.

The back side needs some work. Looks like you are missing a roof plane and maybe double check the pitch. ROOF - Eric.plan

It can't be open in Home Designer.

I was suggesting you post the plan file, not a image of the plan

It's going to take far longer to type this than it took to fix the roof -- it's not so bad. Go to the Build Roof DBX and turn off auto build. You have a 42" overhang -- is this correct? Edit>Reset To Defaults. Check all floors, check all other options below. Set the gable walls on the first floor to be gable. The Great Room needs Roof Over this Room and Ceiling Over This Room checked. Go to the second floor, set the gable walls to gable, and change the pitch on the 2 long walls. You don't have room definitions on the 2nd floor where they are needed because some of the walls are marked No Room Definition. Click the Wall Tool, hold the Shift key and draw a selection marquee around all the 2nd floor to select all the walls. Ctrl-E to open and clear the checkbox for No Room Definition. Build the roof. The roof builds according to settings in the rooms and walls below. When the roof doesn't build as expected, it's because one or more settings are incorrect. Think about what setting would cause the problem, the find and correct it.

Have you tried auto building the roof? At least as a starting point. Use the 2 key to join roof planes, 3 to break. Try pulling them back from each other. Sometimes it's easier to build the main roof planes first, then go back and add the smaller ones -- the small gables in your plan, for example. Post the plan for better help.