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This may or may not give you some ideas.

Attach the plan and I'll have a look. I've see this reported on ChiefTalk but remember no common solution.

Can you select that framing? Delete it? Does it come back after you delete all framing and rebuild?

Your image is really small, and it's often helpful to switch to Vector View for images you want to post. Have you considered changing the wall definition? Replace the red brick with your tile? Maybe add a layer of tile to the wall definition instead of using a Wall Covering?

This is Architectural. No special symbols. I'll come back later and explain if needed.

I'd send this in to Chief. They see problems like this more than we do here on the forum.

Have you checked the minimum system requirements available on the Home Designer site?

Open your new material and see the Materials List panel. Find a similar material in the library -- T&G or similar and look how it's defined. Open a new plan and place a soffit with your material. Figure your quantity manually, then see what the program says.

Just to be clear, my suggestion was to select the Exterior Room and apply the covering there. This is different than selecting walls.

It's not obvious when you edit your original post to add additional info as we see the last post made and don't start over at the beginning. If you do so, add a comment saying you did so. The simple way to do what you want is to use a Wall Covering applied in the Exterior Room. Click just outside an exterior wall. It's easy to select the wall, but try again until you see a highlight that surrounds the plan. Open the room and add a Wall Covering to represent your rock. You can also do this wall by wall if the rock does not wrap the house.

I've not looked at your plan, but will make a couple of comments. End wall trusses are typically a standard truss and would not match the other interior trusses -- the bottom cord would be flat. With Pro, you can edit generated framing. Auto generated framing has no knowledge of trusses since they are manually drawn by the user. Walls build to the ceiling height of the room they define. Maybe your ceiling height is too high, or maybe your trusses need to be raised?

You need to explain this -- what is "maxed out"? If the basement wall is a pony wall, just set the split between upper and lower walls where you want it.

There is no magic setting to make this happen. A texture is just an image that gets repeated to fill the space. You can create a larger image with multiple unique tiles or manually place individual tiles (that you would need to create). Read up on materials in the help resources linked above.

Not in Home Designer.

That's because Has Newel Posts is checked. If you clear the checkmark, all the newels will go away.

You can't seem to do what?

What are you asking about?

Yes it is. You can remove all newels and place your own manually.

Attach the plan file (almost always helpful) and someone will take a look.

Please see my comments here:

Draw the interior walls separately.

Not in Suite.