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Open a wall's dialog box. Go to its Wall Types tab. Click on "Define" and then define the wall as you wish. DJP

The default Road tool just creates straight roads by default, Use the "Polyline Road, Driveway, Sidewalk" tool, it can be altered with the Break Line tool and other editing tools, the straight road, sidewalk and driveway tools cannot. DJP

Looks like a base cabinet for the base, the countertop for the top of the base and then a custom slab for the wood center post, you can make it yourself in about two minutes, give it a try. You remove the drawers, toe kick and make all four sides of the base cabinet smooth and place a stone material on the surface. You set the countertop thickness to 3". Then create a custom slab the thickness of the wood post so it connects with the roof soffit, set its material to wood and you are DONE! DJP

Whether "auto" or manual, the roof plane tool sets the height of roof plans BY the ceiling height settings in your room specification dialog and Default Settings - Floors and Rooms - Level One - Finished Ceiling Height". DJP

Before roof planes are built you set the "Framing, Roof" to match what and how you intend to build the roofs structurally. Once the roof planes are built if they had not been properly set in terms of their structure then you would have to manually adjust the existing roof planes by way of their structure tabs per roof plane to their intended structural settings. It is manifestly easier to get the settings correct BEFORE creating the roof system. This software delivers on the basis of correct settings by YOU and not otherwise. DJP

What software do you have? DJP

All your post indicates is that you are learning how to effectively use the terrain tools. Everyone mounts that same curve from inability to ability. You are not "special" or "unusual" at all what so ever. DJP

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This makes answers guesses always based only upon scanty evidence. I would redraw the foundation walls manually in the areas where you are having visual problems. Another solution is to delete the stem walls and replace with a polyline slab with footings. Polyline slabs are simpler and easier to control than foundation walls. how those foundation walls are aligned with the first floor is often a reason for such unwanted artifacts as well. DJP

A solution is an upgrade to HD Pro. or Chief Premier. DJP

I did this video a LONG time ago but it is still relevant in terms of printing from Architectural and Suite. You also have to create your "Title Block" and other data in plan view to pint your view window at scale. DJP

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If the "Point" markers have a dialog box in Pro then you can change the size and line color of the points to make them less visible. DJP

Welcome, you did not say which software title you are using to do your home virtual model with. That is a vitally important fact to state when asking for help. The reason is that the different titles sold by Chief Architect Inc have differing abilities, tools and features. What software do you have (Year bought and the Name of the software like: Professional, Architectural, Suite...). Lots of good people here wish to help learners but you must help them with the above information AND a clear communication verbally and graphically so the question can be clearly understood and addressed by others. DJP

Home Designer Suite has no "Layout" only Home Designer Pro has that feature and file type. What software do you actually have? Whenever something exists but does not show, its layer i.e. "Plants, Labels" is turned off in "Display Options", take a look. DJP

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Intuitive or not, they programmed the software to work as it does. One person's "intuitive" is another's conundrum. Learning a tool is just part of one's competence and that is all. DJP

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Can you explain what is wrong, a section at a time please so specifics could then be addressed? DJP

I had to use manual roof tools to iron all the problems out on your file, I do not think Architectural is really capable of doing this roof by settings alone. DJP Farmhouse.zip

The baseline height of roof planes is determined by how you wet room ceiling heights. If your room ceiling heights are off or just wrong in each room then the roofs once built will look wrong like your posted image. Only if all rooms are set tot he same ceiling height values will the resulting roof planes also have a uniform fascia and baseline heights. Make sure also that you have set the Finished Ceiling Height value in "Edit - Default Settings - Floors and Rooms - Finished Ceiling Height" BEFORE you create your model structure and do not make any alterations of those values until after your roofs are in place. Once roofs are as you wish them to be do not use "Auto Build roofs" again unless you are pursuing new changes that require a new roof system. DJP

If you are using elevation points as opposed to elevation lines, splines then I am not surprised that you are having difficulties. I never use elevation points, they are hard to see and find to edit them after the fact. The basic datum for terrain is that the software will generate a gradient from one elevation value to the next elevation value. For abrupt changes in terrain you use the "Terrain Break" object to define abrupt changes. Try to keep your terrain as simple as it possible and laid out smoothly from end to end. I realize that the "real world" often does not follow this maxim but most land used for structures does. Having two elevation values too close to one another or vastly different elevation values causes a bizarre world end product, so keep your modulation of the terrain plodding, checking each change to track if it was correct or not. If that change looks weird, then stop, alter that change and then check again until you get the right looking product. Like every thing else, in this software the product you see is what you created, so it it sucks, you made it that way. Find out how to do it right and through trial and error practice you will eventually arrive at personal competence. DJP

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Check out this search data at the Home Designer website please: https://www.homedesignersoftware.com/search/?default_tab=all&q=roll+out+shelves&page=1 DJP PS: BTW you should NOT post questions here, the Tips and Tricks section is for posting helpful hints, shortcuts and other helpful-useful data you have discovered that you wish to share with others. O & A is for Questions to be posed, not here.

This software performs best when your structure is at right angles to the screen or at 7 degree increments. To create a structure at odd angles just makes the work ten times harder as the tools and objects you are using are not being used as they were programmed to be used. if a structure needs to be rotated relative to magnetic North you have a "North Pointer" tool for that purpose, you rotate the North Pointer and never the structure. When you use any software in ways it was not designed to function you just make it harder on YOU. DJP