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What did it produce? Something similar to your picture above? You get the landing, but the upper flight is not connected? Have you tried creating the stairs, then using the landing tool to create the landing?

Just tried it and it works for me. I'm new to doing stairs and still learning. Open a new plan. Using the straight stairs tool, drag out your 8 steps. Using the cross-hairs to align the next flight, drag out the next 8 steps. Position the cursor close to the steps where the landing should be and click. Landing should create. View in 3D to verify.

Thanks David. Yes Mick, I sometimes have 3 or 4 camera views open and on a small plan, in plan view, the extra clutter gets in the way. I'm always clicking to activate a room and end up in a camera view! -- Eric

I'd like to turn off the display of cameras in plan view. Have unchecked "Cameras", and "Cameras, Labels" in Layer Display Options. Cameras still show. -- Eric

Thanks guys. DJP -- I was really thinking simpler, instead of better. I worked for various state agencies in Austin, and Capital Metro, back in the 80s and preached to my teams then to find the simplest solution. I still feel that way. I want to easily understand what I did when picking this project up in a few months, or when looking for a reference when doing something similar. Mick -- I need to start thinking about the big picture. What's this assembly similar to -- like your Clerestory Windows/Roof, where I had been looking at wall info.

Notice in the first image the missing wall between the two roof planes. There are no internal walls, or, no walls that extend to the ground (see image 2). I've built this structure two ways, first with a short, Open Below second floor, and second by increasing the ceiling height on the middle section. The second floor version worked, and I was able to shorten the automatically generated walls so they only filled the gap between the two roofs, but this did not seem very clean. Just raising the ceiling made the most sense, but but the walls are a problem -- either invisible or not. I solved this by changing them to a pony wall where the lower part is invisible and the top is a normal exterior wall sized to fill the gap. There are also a few issues on an interior view. Missing wall finish where the invisible wall butts the exterior wall for example. So my question, is there a better way. -- Eric

Mick comes through again -- Edit Area does exactly what I want.

I'd like an easy way to do this as well. Simply selecting only what is within the selection. Walls, for example, would be cut at the selection and not extend past.

Are you asking about using HDP 15 to develop your plans, or are you wanting to know what the building department needs?

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Wall is there in Attic Plan view. Is there in 3D attic view. Is there in 3D Perspective Full Overview visible through a window. Attic Wall layer is on. Not visible in Floor Camera View. Ideas?

Once you have a room defined, click anywhere in the room not on another object, and the entire room will be selected. You may then Ctrl-E, or right click and choose Open Object. You could also just double click in the room to open the Room Specification dialog. Look under Structure on the left. -- Eric

The multi-purpose soffit tool to the rescue -- again. Thanks DJP and Mick.

Have a shower surrounded by 3 standard walls and one glass shower wall. I want one wall (see first image) to extend out past the glass an inch or so. When I move it via drag or entering dimensions, it always snaps back to the location shown. If I drag it out 6" or so it will stay, then use the arrow keys to move it, once it gets to within 4 or 5 inches, it snaps back even with the glass. Have tried all I know.

I used a room divider to create two porches in the same area. One projects past the front of the building, the other does not. The one that projects has no roof, the other does. -- Eric

Would like a printer capable of 11x17 black and white. Will see little use -- 50 pages or so a month. See multifunction devices, but really need just a printer. Already have printer/copier/scanner laser for 8.5" paper. I have researched, but many reviews focus on photo printing etc, and not drawing nice sharp lines. Any ideas? -- Eric

Thanks to all who replied. As a new user, I have much to learn. This was a project for a friend building this barn for his daughter who is here for the weekend from out of state. He wanted her to see his design n 3D. Mick -- The above quote from your post was the key. I now have what I need. One suggestion I'll be making to CA is to add an "Apply" button to the dialogs. Would make this trial and error cycle much easier! -- Eric

Thanks guys. David -- Have tried the soffit tool using the sloped option, even found a KB article (http://www.homedesignersoftware.com/support/article/KB-00902/) that says "Angled timber members can also be created in the Home Designer Architectural and Home Designer Pro versions by using a sloped soffit.", but doesn't do much to explain how. Mick -- The truss on the front is a stock truss with the king post option checked. It happens to match the design I'm trying to replicate. Your suggestion is what I tried first, but because of the width of the building, the truss generated has too many members. I'll keep trying. -- Eric

Trying to draw a decorative truss on the side gables like the one on the front. Will be embedded in the stucco. Used the soffit tool to make the horizontal and vertical parts, but unable to do the angled members. Is there a better way? Using latest Home Designer Pro.