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Pro will do much of that, but you may need to create some of the decoration in a program like SketchUp and import into Pro. Suggest you download the trial and see for yourself. There are several people answering questions here that are good at modeling this type of structure. Also, this is not an official support forum, just users helping each other, so you may also want to contact Home Designer sales.

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I opened your plan. I'm on floor 1. Checked Build Floor Framing in the Build Framing dialog. Opened a Perspective Framing Overview and the floor framing was there. If you don't see the floor framing, check display options to make sure its layer is displayed. What happens when you do the above?

Some of the first floor rooms have a 111" ceiling, others have a 109". Is this by design? When I deleted the 2nd floor, reset the first floor rooms to the default height, then built a 2nd floor, everything looked good.

I noticed those walls too, Alan. I deleted them and they went away. There are inconsistencies in the way the structure has been modeled. View the family room with a full camera, paying attention to the crown. Notice that it does not go completely around the space. The image shows an area in the dining room as an example. You have built the porch from parts, but it's not a room. If you gave it a room type of porch, you would get the option of a ceiling -- which it lacks, and the option of a slab, etc. I'd suggest that cleaning up the structure will give you a better model, and go a long ways in preventing things like the duplicated walls.

Have you adjusted the birdsmouth to your specification? Searching for birdsmouth in the help system will provide info.

See the image. You can change the Snap Unit. Set it to 12", then draw a wall. See how it works. Set it to 1/2", see how it works. Looking at your interior dimensions, many end in eights -- 7'-3/8". I'd try for no fractions, and use 1/2" as my smallest fraction.

#1 Could you post an image showing this? #2 Build the foundation

Works here.

You may also need to increase the stemwall height. 110" instead of the 70" shown puts the footings about even with the rest of the house.

Enter new values from the top down.

You can emulate this by using multiple wall types. The columns are standard 8" concrete walls, the infill is a pony wall with the top being the 8" concrete wall.

What's the purpose of the balcony space? Is it a balcony, and does it need a roof over it?

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Home Designer YouTube videos. Some of these deal with landscape. Knowledge Base. Knowledge Base Article on Gate in wall.

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Set the space (room) on the second floor as Open Below. Search the programs Help system for more info on Open Below.

New settings.

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Here is one with the dormers done. These are all Auto Dormers that have been exploded. Foothills 7660 Franklin Road (2) Eric New.plan

I did it manually. The program is good about joining rood planes, so the front garage roof plane joined easily to the front house roof plane. The fascia height was I think an inch different, but I changed the garage to match the house. Draw in a small roof plane on the back of the connector space and join it to the rear garage roof plane. Drag it to the house wall. Then drag it up to the ridge. Connect up the ridge -- the hard part on this one.

What I said above will work, it's just tricky. This one is manual. I don't understand why an auto dormer will not work. I placed one on the garage, changed the roof to a shed, resized it, then exploded it to change the window. Looks correct inside and out.

Don't know how you work with everything black. Here is the roof fixed. Too many problems with the dormers to quickly fix and I need to get to a job. Will look again later today if no one else has. Foothills 7660 Franklin Road (2) e.plan