DavidJPotter

Upgrade to Home Designer Pro so you can manually edit roof planes. DJP

With Architectural you would use a reshaped and located sloped soffit (found under cabinet tools). In Architectural you can turn off the ceiling in the room's dialog box-Structure tab and then place sloped soffits under the roof to emulate a ceiling at a lower pitch over that room. You place a soffit facing perpendicular to one side of the room. Then stretch it out from the bearing wall to just under the roof ridge. The in the soffit's dialog you tell it to "Follow the roof" which causes it to adopt the same pitch as the roof above. Then by manipulating the input box values for the height of each end of the sloped soffit you then gain a lower pitch appearance. When you have the first side where you want it, you then copy-paste the first soffit to the other wall and rotate it so it becomes a reversed pair to the first sloped soffit. This will require some trial and error practice to master the above directions. DJP

What software do you use please? It can be done in any Home Designer title but most easiest done in Home Designer Pro. DJP

"Wrong" is not the right word, I would rather suggest that you can edit an existing bed poly-line by added line breaks (in the Edit Tool Bar) to add more arc line entities to further shape and control your bed object. Learning how to edit and shape those is better than using several to obtain the same result. You click-select the bed object, then while selected, click on the break line tool in the edit toolbar, then left-click where you want an additional line break to further control-shape your bed object. You can also use the other "feature" objects and then reshape them to your needs also. Some of these Knowledge Base Help articles may also be helpful to your purposes: https://www.homedesignersoftware.com/search/?q=garden+beds DJP

I have complained to Tech Support about auto interior dimensions tool but until they do something you can merely delete the strings that you do not want and or manually alter them to suit your needs. DJP

I did a You Tube video addressing your questions in Architectural 2016: https://youtu.be/7zKXKGDMeys DJP

In Windows 7 or 10 you can use the "Snipping" tool to do that or you can save what appears on your screen by using the "File - Export Image" command. Also some of these Knowledge Base Help Articles may contain some useful advice: https://www.homedesignersoftware.com/search/?q=export+image DJP

Before you build roofs you would open th "Build Roof" dialog and using its "Framing Tab" you could alter the thickness of the roof planes to emulate the additional roof thickness you desire. You will not be able to rename those framing layers but you can set them to emulate the wanted thicknesses. When you have that set just as you like it, then build roofs and it should give you the appearance you want. DJP

I recommend that you call Chief Architect Sales and ask them for advice. DJP

The above data is so vitally important to new users. I have seen many a plan file started by new users that was so confused by misuse of applying materials any old way so as to make such a plan file useless, do it right please. DJP

No, no home designer title can export useful 3D models for use in viewers, except .stl files and I do not know a viewer that handles them (perhaps there is one, I just do not know of it). I post 3D models to Sketchfab using 3DS format but I use Chief Premier which as greater capabilities. Premier also outputs to other 3D files that can be used in other applications. I know you are probably tired of hearing this but you actually do get only what you pay for. I have never used this application but you are free to : https://a360.autodesk.com/?gclid=CLD235P4oMsCFZE0aQodcXcCJQ&gclsrc=aw.ds DJP PS: I signed up for a free account and this was the result of a simple .stl upload I made of a garage plan created by others: https://myhub.autodesk360.com/ue29037c1/g/live_review/SH7f1edQT22b515c761e354225d8627eba71?uid=4NZVRMCGSQGJ&sessionID=SH7f1edQT22b515c761e354225d8627eba71 It is not Great but it is free and fully 3D

Here is a You Tube video of me editing your plan, hope it helps you: https://youtu.be/HfgDY7TNevA DJP

No, it is merely a slightly different floor level, it can be lower than the rest of the first floor or slightly higher than the first floor. You make the change by drawing a wall to divide the two rooms setting one different from the adjacent one. DJP

Draw a segmented or curved wall. Set the rooms ceiling height high enough so that you have room for the windows. Create the lowest level of the windows to fill or fit into the curved wall. Then shift-select the grouped windows as a group and copy-drag-paste those windows up for the next level up then repeat until you have the number of windows you require. DJP

No, I am using Trend Micro main PC and Avast anti virus on my laptop and never a whisper of trouble. DJP

Here is a You Tube video of me creating an arched lintel in Home Designer Pro: https://youtu.be/4ZaX_4SIBnc DJP

This You Tube video may help: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hncV8yl-ND0 DJP

The hard part is a matter of scaling and of course orientating the image so it reflects a proper "North Pointer". Importing such an image is the easy part. DJP

When I upgraded to Windows 10 back in July I started having this "message" and it was worse for me because of all the Chief Premier and Home Designer titles I have on my PC. I and others complained of this on Chief Talk and one of the software Architects laid out the steps to handle which involves making your User Account in Windows 10 as Administrator and I set each application I had, one at a time to "Run as Administrator". That worked for me, I am sorry it is not working for you but you might just check again, I mean the advice you were given works IF successfully done as opposed to kinda done. DJP

If there are not two separate inputs on the "Materials Tab" of the Door's Dialog Box then no solution for that problem is possible. You should first try the Dialog box-materials Tab for such things and try to ween off the use of the Materials Eye Dropper and Painter at least until you study those tools various "Modes of Use". I have seen many plans by new users destroyed and corrupted by misuse of those tools. DJP

Send me your plan files and I will mark them OK to be edited in Home Designer 2016 titles. You could have done this yourself when you had Premier. DJP

Commonly you open the dialog box of the object you want to change. Then go to its "Material Tab". Select the material you wish to alter as a "Plan Material" where you can then select its Dialog box to change its vector lines to black for black and white vector view printing. Without handling the original Material Texture that change does not, by itself effect Render view camera appearances. DJP

I know of no videos on this subject but it involves 1. exporting the existing texture file as a copy. 2. Altering that texture file in an image editing application like Eric suggested. 3. Importing the edited texture as a new custom material (see Reference Manual for details). 4. As part of creating the new custom material you give the new material a new name and import it into your "Users Catalog" area of the Library Browser. The steps are not complicated but require preciseness. DJP

Library Browser - Materials - Siding & Paneling - Board and Batten" Take a look please. DJP

This You Tube Dimensions tutorial may help you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6mra1PpSL8 DJP