DavidJPotter

See if some of these Knowledge Base help articles help. https://www.homedesignersoftware.com/search/?q=walk+out+basement+with+retaining+walls&default_tab=support DJP

I have just reviewed several "Users Guides" for several software applications. If you will read and study your "Users Guide" before attempting a new plan or design you will save yourself a lot of wasted hours and dismay. The Users Guide can be found under your "Help" menu and ships and installs with your Home Designer software, take a look, you will not be sorry! DJP

Look for this tool DJP

I am guessing you did not check "roof over this room" on the "Structure tab" of the Deck's room dialog before ordering a roof build. DJP

Check on the offending room's dialog box-Structure Tab and if you find"Floor supplied by foundation". IF it is checked select "Floor Under this room" and then take a new look. Another reason for no floor is on the room's "dialog box-structure tab" and if the flooring thickness is set to "zero inches" will also produce "no visible floor. DJP

Suite does not have any ability to create or build framing except automatically. Suite has no manual roof tools, you set up the settings to automatically create roofs, data about how is to be found in the "Build Roof" dialog "Roof Stiles" tab.in Suite. DJP

The only native herringbone pattern is found in "Flooring" in Chief Inc products. If you really want such a look you will have to custom make some tile textures to go with that pattern. DJP

I think rather this is an end user error. to emulate a cement Post (column). if the column is solid concrete if you use a custom slab then the material should then compute properly but if the column is not solid concrete but rather a column made of cement blocks filled with concrete and steel then one would then have to precisely 3D model the object exactly as it is intended to be built in the field. The materials list just reads what you did in the construction of the 3D plan file. That it all it is capable of so you must model objects exactly as they are to be built. The materials list just reads what you did only and how you did it. DJP

Here is a You Tube video I made that should help you

HD Pro is the only program that offers truss creation. In order to have a truss form is to first have a flat ceiling and roof planes in place, the truss tool then fills the void between the ceiling and roof planes. DJP

" I'm wondering if there is some way to rotate the snap grid, temporarily, while working on each wing. " No DJP

Another source is 3D Warehouse, the symbols are free buy yhey offer NO quality control of symbols. DJP

In Suite you cannot lock walls. DJP

I normally use just a shelf (cabinet tools), there is no native symbol in HD. Or you can try AND import this symbol made for Chief Architect Premier DJP shelf rod.calibz

If you want a custom roof manually building the roof is the ONLY way to go. Here is a follow up video tutorial I made this morning. I am sorry but this type of roof requires more advanced procedures DJP

I made a video but it did not turn out. I drew the roof planes manually. The curved wall I did in a cross section camera using manual wall breaks to reshape it. DJP

Not that I know of. Stairs are usually a quite variable thing fitted customized to each plan. Any changes you care to make to a stair object can be done by way of the "Stair Specification Dialog". I believe that is all you really need to know. DJP

The Auto Interior Dimension objects are automatically on a "Layer in Display Options" called "Auto Dimensions". This layer and any other named layer can be turned on (visible) or turned off (not visible in plan view) at your choice. Or you can manually edit or delete each dimension string to suit your purposes. DJP

When you are new many things seem hard. This is due to your needing to really learn the software you have and not due to any short comings it has. You have not stated what software you are using, Home Designer has several differing titles within the current version (2017). Each of these applications have differing abilities, so without knowing what you have, a precise answer to your questions is uncertain. Asto your question #2 again I must need to know what software application you have in order to answer that question. There are several ways to accomplish what you want done, it all comes down to what you have. The attached images were done about 16 years ago. None of them required a curved front but I have done those as well. DJP

This Knowledge Base Help article may help you: https://www.homedesignersoftware.com/support/article/KB-00924/customizing-a-material.html DJP

I was able to import this Column library into Architectural but not Suite, sorry. I suppose you could make this out of separate symbol objects combining column objects and resizing them, give it a try. DJP Columns.calibz

That is caused when the rafter depth is greater than the fascia depth. You can correct that in the "Structure Tab" of each existing roof plane or as well in Default Settings - Roof - Structure Tab" but changing the Defaults after the fact of building roofs has no effect on existing roof planes, existing ones must be done one at a time. DJP

As Law has demonstrated above, the other persons you sought help from were not experts as you have said. LawB10 has his settings correct and understands where they go to get a result, your settings are off and so you do not have what you want. Those settings are shown in the Build Roof dialog-Roof Styles tab. Once you fully read the Users Guide you should then know proper general procedure. The settings are fully explained in the Reference Manual under the "Roofs" Section. Learn the settings, where they are and what they do. You have already seen the results when the settings are wrong. DJP

Post a copy of your plan for useful advice. DJP

I have completed a You Tube video of "fixing" your plan in Suite 2017 and in Pro 2017 so you can clearly the limitations of Suite. I am sorry but it is what it is. DJP