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The gap can be manually closed in a cross section camera view, you select the wall which will display its edit handles for you to pull the upper wall down or the first floor wall up to fill the gaps. DJP

That is what "Room Divider" walls are for to separate spaces for differing purposes. DJP

Sorry, me either exactly. DJP

Architects and Engineers commonly use AutoCAD, a strictly 2D software program. The company that makes AutoCAD also has a program called REVIT that is natively 3D like Chief Architect Premier. Auto Desk company also makes an application called Architectural Desktop which is natively 3D in nature. All of those applications are for the use of Professionals and come with a Professional price or monthly rental fee. Most licensed Architects will not accept another's design, no matter the software used, they do their own designs, they are commonly quite slow creating your plans and commonly change a huge fee, sometimes a fraction of what the home's actual cost to build. I have designed countless custom home plans and those houses stand in most of the 50 States, many of them by people like you who developed their own plan file and then shared it with me to fully develop a set pf Architectural plans which can then be used to get bids from contractors and financing from Banks. The finished plans are shared with a State Licensed Structural Engineer who creates the Structural Plans and then together the Architectural and Structural plans are then submitted to a Local Permit Authority to obtain a building permit. Structural Engineers commonly do NOT do Architectural plans, they specialize in Structural design, plans and detailing. Architects are not Engineers and Engineers are not Architects. I am a drafts person and if you do your own plans you are acting as a drafts person only, not as an Architect or Engineer both of which are state licensed. DJP

Yes, within the document which is formatted for a particular paper size. Son on the paper size, if printed to the target paper size will then display scalable content but not otherwise. Home Designer Pro, in plan view displays a virtual scale of 1' = 1'. That is why when you print it, so it fits on a piece of paper, you print it to a scale that fits on the target paper size. That is what scaling is for. DJP

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This sort of thing is not a "bug", rather it underlines that fact and importance of looking at and being responsible for one's settings and one's own produce. Merely by opening a old plan in a newer version will not, just by that act change the settings that are in a plan. Software does only what it is told by YOU and no one else. If something is found wrong, then it is some decision that you made wrongly or mistakenly. Software is just a complex tool that does what you tell it to or forget to tell it or wrongly tell it. New users often think that the software seems to have intelligence or perhaps an attitude. It has none of those things, it just and only does what you tell it to do, right or wrong. So if you find something askew you just set it right and move on. DJP

If you need that level of control you will need to upgrade at least to Chief Architect Premier Interiors. That application allows you to take any object or groups of objects and place them on any other layer and also lets you create custom layers for the purpose that you wish. Contact Chief Architect sales, customer service or visit the Chief Architect website for pricing and or rental options. DJP

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You WILL NOT be able to build this room merely by settings in walls-roof tabs. This will have to be manually laid out using the proper roof pitches (your currently do not match your drawings) and then manually located in plan view and vertically. Manual roof editing is a process developed by a balance of study followed by trial and error practice to develop the hand-eye coordination necessary to get this done. I did it and countless others have too. DJP

In Architectural you would have to mark each room in plan view - Structure Tab - No Roof in order for the Roof Generator to skip the spaces you so mark. Then no roofs will be built over just those spaces you designate. DJP

Read the article I indicated, found in the "Build Roof Dialog - Roof Styles - Shed roof. You set the ceiling heights, one in the first floor wall and the second one in the second floor wall as per your cross section image that you posted. Then the rest is 3D geometry. You can build this roof by presetting and then build "automatically" or manually in HD Pro. Read the indicated article for pre-setting the walls - roof tab settings or just manually draw them. DJP

I mainly create images for use in PDF presentations and website presentations/sharing for the purpose of structural/Architectural design, so the "resolution" is secondary to the simple graphic content. Imagery is for the communicating and discussion of Architectural designs and not primarily as "works of Art" per se. Some clients require higher resolution output, usually large, expensive projects over and above that of custom homes. Most of the high resolution work I have done was to promote to others, my skill in doing so as opposed to supporting a particular project. On the other hand, I also primarily use Chief Architect Premier (not HD Pro) which has more choices relative to purely rendering a 3D view. Chief by default has always had the ability to create Photo-Realistic images at ANY size or resolution up to and including the size of a roadside billboard. Some users specialize in Photo Realistic imagery and often use other applications to give them greater and greater control over the final product (Photo Shop, Lumion, Twin Motion, and others). In closing, the purpose of the image determines its quality and size and that is for YOU to decide for yourself and your purposes. DJP

The "Fix" or solution is to buy or upgrade to either Architectural or HD Pro that have greater abilities than what you paid for by buying Suite. One cannot expect $99 dollar software to solve problems like Architectural @ $200 or Home Designer Pro @ $495. Ether of those software titles have built in abilities that Suite does not making a situation such as yours easy to handle. You get what you choose to pay for, always. DJP

Here is one I did back in version X6, it is a floating hotel connected to land by way of a causeway, located near Melbourne, Australia. You use the terrain plane for your land and water DJP

You need to learn how to use the "Reference Display" and how walls align floor to floor (walls define what is and is not a "Floor"). Take a look at some of these help articles at the Home Designer Website please. DJP

Only vector view and line-based camera types use pattern files for renderings. They are not used at all in the Standard Render, PBR (in 2021) Ray Trace (Chief Premier). I looked in my "Pattern File" folder in C:/Windows/My Documents/Home Designer Professional 2021 Data/Patterns" and found that folder to be empty. In older versions of Chief Premier I actually learned how to create ".pat" files but that was years and years ago (I have since forgotten how-I learned by doing a "Search" online for ".pat" files but I do know in Chief Premier X12, Chief scans custom materials and AUTOMATICALLY creates a custom .pat file to emulate the custom material imported but I do not know if this is possible in HD Pro-2020. I suggest you contact Chief Inc Customer Service and ply them with your question. DJP

You should start a new thread yourself. Once you really learn the software the instances of unexpected occurrence decrease big time, otherwise it is kinda like gambling. DJP

With nothing selected hit the "Delete" key until all temp points are gone. Under the CAD menu - Points, there is an icon to called "Delete points" also, either method works. you can turn off "Temporary Points" in Preferences as well so they then will not appear at all. DJP

What I would do is to import the .dwg file away from my existing structure and its objects. Make the .dwg into a CAD block, then scale it to what already exists in the plan file. then orient that imported .dwg cad block TO the existing house structure to then trace over using my terrain plane as the property lines and trace over the Elevation grade lines using HD Pro's 3D tools to then obtain a usable 3D terrain plane. All AutoCAD files are by default 2D and I mainly use them as a relational guide for the 3D tools within HD Pro. DJP

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On a regular business day, contact Customer Service at Chief Architect Inc during their Pacific Time Zone hours. DJP

Depending upon the actual size of the symbol/symbols, you may have to zoom in really close to be able to select them so delete them from the plan. DJP

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