DavidJPotter

Here you go: DJP Park Centre bldg main.plan

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Share a copy of your .plan file, posting a .dxf file is worthless to anyone but AutoCAD users. That way I can help you, this way all I can do is sympathize. With a copy of your plan I can then look and see what is happening, without it I can only guess as to what is wrong. DJP

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This should clarify Eric's response. DJP

By placing something that looks like a plank but isn't that you manually place there, it can be a reshaped soffit or perhaps a custom slab, In Architectural it cannot be an actual deck plank because Architectural does not have manual framing tools, like Home Designer Pro has. DJP

Not that I am aware of other than manually creating your own custom railings, piece by piece using Sketch Up and then importing into Home Designer. DJP

Every application that Home Designer makes has lots of dialog boxes that control that tool's attributes. The layout is not different. look under "File - Print - Drawing Sheet Setup - Orientation -Portrait or Landscape". DJP

Most people will not click on links posted by strangers (I will not). You can embed images directly into the post. You also need to tell others what software you are using, there are LOTS of different Home Designer applications with widely differing abilities. Post your images directly in your posts please or just figure out your questions' answer yourself. DJP

You can create the apparency of one along with text and an arrow to point out where and what it is. 3D symbols of such objects can be had at 3D Warehouse for free download, import into Home Designer and then applied to a location in your plan file. As a professional, I commonly just draw them in 2D with text and an arrow. But have also been required by a Structural Engineer I was working with to completely 3D model all structural details (Engineers, like what they like and are the senior terminal when it comes to structural matters). 2D libraries of Simpson Strong Tie's library are available for download at their website. In terms of 3D you can try 3D Warehouse or just learn Sketch Up and create them yourself. DJP

Although it is easier to do in Home Designer Pro, Architectural also has 2D tools (Text, Dimensions, Lines, Arc's etc) that are used for creating details and other annotations, You learn how to use those existing tools and learn how to print to scale and then you are all set. Having software does not ensure any outcomes, only you can do that by following your intention to be competent backed up by study and practice to a fine enough degree that you can then just create what you wish when you wish it. DJP

If you mean "Construction Drawings", all Home Designer titles are to some degree capable of producing printed, scaled plans at various paper sizes. Probably the most capable is Home Designer Pro, which is used by many Remodeling Firms for their projects. If you mean something else, please be a little more forthcoming and define what you do mean by "Technical Drawings", so people do not have to guess. DJP

Custom crown moldings are only available in Chief Premier, no Home Designer products can create custom moldings other than those attached to soffits (you make the soffit tiny so just the molding shows). DJP

You may want to consider another supplier. All of my experiences have been only in the USA. It appears this outfit wants just your money and offers only what they offer. Such a project should not be only on your shoulders, it seems to me that want only your money and are willing to take no responsibility for any outcomes. Smells fishy to me, so buyer beware is all I say. DJP

I have helped several people design SIP homes and NONE of them were required to do as you describe above. All the SIP companies I have dealt with have their own draftspeople and Structural Engineers to do this for you. Be that as it may (all companies are not equal), you should be able to do this using Architectural, an elevation camera per exterior wall, your 2D CAD tools (test, dimensions, and text) to annotate each elevation. There is not automated routine in Architectural, so this is purely a manual job. DJP

In order for roofs to best fit together, they must match in baseline height, fascia top height and pitch. No one ever said that manual roof design is "easy", but it can be challenging. Roof symmetry is dependant upon matching settings to achieve a symmetric roof system. Make sure your roof settings make sense and when they do, they will go together like butter. DJP

Joining roof planes: http://djpdesigns.com/join-roofs-tool.html Roof Dialog box and its uses: http://djpdesigns.com/roof-dialog.html More about the roof dialog: http://djpdesigns.com/more-roof-dialog.html The above videos are "old" but are still pertinent to editing roofs today. DJP

In order to help, anyone willing to help would first need to know what software you are using, in detail (what title, what version). Then the helper would know what your software is then capable of in terms of fixing the problem. What do you have? DJP

You would have to create a dormer with its roof set to curved and then explode the dormer into its parts, delete everything except the roof planes and then copy-paste them over the target window (I have never tried this in Home Designer Pro but theoretically it should work) and is the only way I can think of to do this, other than manually creating a multi-segmented, manual roof plane made to look like a curved roof plane due to the multi-segment and differing pitches, connected together. Like this: DJP

Since Home Designer Pro creates one .layout file per printed page, what you must do is to set up for and then print to PDF a single page before setting up for a second or third page. If you were to upgrade to Chief Architect Premier, who's layout contains up to 1.000 pages in a single .layout file and you also have differently named "layer sets" and "Annotation Sets" to further organize those views, keeping the sets of layers separate from other sets of layers (this is a major reason among reasons why Chief Premier is so much more expensive than Pro). In short, Pro is not programmed to do as you wish, so you must work with the way it IS programmed to work as I opined above: complete a printed page, print it and then set up for the next page, print it to PDF and then set up for the next printed page etc. The only solution possible is to either work with Pro as it was designed to work or upgrade to Premier and then learn how to use it. DJP

This is something that currently cannot be done in Home Designer Pro or Chief Premier. You can make a "Feature Request" for being added at some future time (the list is already very long), or you can just do what the rest of us do and assign light sources on the fly, once you get the hang of it,it can be done quickly. That is the reason I do as I do since one cannot make light emitting symbols in Chief Premier. That is the way it currently is and has been for years. DJP

The way I do light sources is to place the first one and get it where I want it, height-wise and then copy-paste them in or on my upper cabinets as needed. It has never occured to me to save them in the library (though there is no good reason not to), I just make them as I need them, they are simple to create and adjust. DJP

What fixtures do you wish to create and save in your Library? DJP

I am not sure what import symbol capabilities Interiors has. Please add to you posting "signature" what version of Interiors you have (2019, 2018, 2016 etc.), once I know that then I might be able to export the symbol you need and want for you to add to your library, especially if you cannot find and import such a symbol from 3D Warehouse. It would help anyone trying to help you to know what software you have and its version number. DJP PS: You can try the attached library file to see if it is compatible with Interiors (I really do not know, I exported the library from Chief Premier X7) Wall Heaters.calibz

That is what the dialog is for, to adjust the z-axis (height) location of the light source. DJP