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    Newbie questions on starting with an apartment

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    Hello everyone - newbie here, just started with Home Designer Suite in an attempt to redesign my apartment, so please be patient. :)

     

    HD definitely takes some adjustment (especially for someone with zero prior design skills), so keep stumbling on seeming annoyances or questions and wonder if I could get some tips. I'm going to dump them as a list instead of spamming the forum with dozens of topics...

     

    • Walls - what is the recommended approach when setting up the walls that are exterior to the apartment unit (but interior to the building) - use interior walls or exterior ones?
    • Dimensions - I've got a lot of grief with dimensions, which seem to default to measuring from either outer points or midpoints of walls instead of doing it from interior points. I have no problem to adjust them but occasionally they do change back. Is there any way to force all interior dimensions to always use the inner point?
    • Room fancy corners - one room in my apt has decorative corner relief (sorry, don't know what the proper term for this is - see the pic attached). What is the right way to add it to the plan (I guess, I can make it up of 4 wall fragments, but I wonder if there is a better way).
    • Niche - I've got a niche in the [exterior] wall, which is 9" deep. What is the recommended way to implement it - "make" the wall thicker than 9" and add it as a niche or model it as a "caved" wall and then figure out how to define different ceiling height for that area?
    • Dimensions - probably due to lack of experience, I constantly have my plan dimensions change slightly in response to something (e.g. changing seemingly unrelated wall adjustments). I wonder if there is a way to "lock" some dimensions making sure the program never changes them, even when I tweak some other part of the plan?
    • Are there other tips w.r.t. modeling an apartment unit, rather than a house?

     

    Sorry for the handful and thank you in advance for any tips!

     

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