DavidJPotter

Manual roof editing, generally speaking, is a skill you develop by failing, failing and failing, study-practice, fail some more then get a success, then become more confident as you go on. You just persist until you start to gain some confidence and competence. It is not an overnight thing. It is a developed skill. If you will post a copy of your plan, then others can then help with some specifics. DJP

Build Roof Dialog - Options Tab - Boxed Eaves DJP

What you do is to move the slab into the space of the glass wall so it appears to be defining the bottom of the wall, you set the shower door, if any, to ride just above the slab (all objects have dialog boxes or can be located in virtual space as you desire). If you slab is "bumping" into the glass wall, just use the "CTRL" (control key) to override the bumping to place it where you wish in plan view. DJP

Upgrade to Home Designer Pro, then your answer would be "Yes". DJP

The stair tool has no default settings that I know of. You commonly draw a stair object, then open its dialog box and change its settings to suit. When working with stairs one must be precise and methodical (sloppiness gets NO useful products). Software is not smart or lucid nor does it have any "Human" characteristics at all what so ever,it is not alive or aware, rather it is a mechanical tool that one uses to forward their purposes and graphically communicate ones desires to other Building professionals. Software is preprogrammed to function a particular way. It is your job to figure out how best to guide the software to the desired result. Whether the Reference Manual is clear or unclear, it takes what it takes to get the desired result. It is your job to find out what works. DJP

People who use Suite have no way to find out, the same is true for anyone else except Chief Architect Premier Or Home Designer Pro users who could open a copy of your plan and then look at "Default Settings-Framing" settings. Without your plan to look at it is anyone's guess as to what those settings are. You might call Chief Architect Inc, customer service and perhaps find out. DJP

What is your monitor resolution set to now? If too large, make your screen resolution larger, so what is on that desktop then gets smaller. My monitor is a 27", set to 1920 x 1080 which works well for me. DJP

https://www.homedesignersoftware.com/support/article/KB-01081/creating-a-pole-barn-structure.html DJP

I suggest that you delete the offending fireplace object and try another one. The behavior the current one is displaying is corrupt and incorrect. Try another one. DJP

To change the way Dimensions display, you go to "Edit - Default Settings - Dimensions - Primary Format" to change the "Smallest Fraction" that dimensions then use. If you did not "Save" after changing the fraction value or you hit "Cancel" after making the change to Dimension Defaults, then the change did not "change". Thre is no other control available nor is any other control necessary. This software only does what you set it to do or fail to set it to do or just wrongly set it, the software is a direct reflection of your knowledge of and control of the software and its settings. Nothing else is possible. DJP

What software are you using, what version, please? DJP

Learn the relationship between a default wall's exterior material setting and how you can change a single wall using that wall's "Materials Tab", if you change the default exterior material setting of a wall type, that change affects all such walls in the plan, whereas if you use the wall's material tab, you can change just one wall at a time. You also can use the "Wall Covering tool" to place a single material on a wall's exterior or interior and vary the height of the material change. If your version has a "pony wall" option you can stack two different wall types to create an Architectural look. Anyone trying to help you needs to know what software you are using, its version number and title name. Then, the above suggestions might begin to make sense once you open your Reference Manual and Help files to inform yourself about the above tools I have suggested. DJP

Without seeing exactly what you are speaking of, no useful advice can be offered other than to show us what you are talking about. Like Eric said, saying what software you are using is vitally important (there is no such program as "Architect Pro" within the line up of Chief Premier or Home Designer. DJP

What software are you using? What version and title? Post a copy of your ".plan" file. A little more background on how you arrived at this unwanted situation (what did you do or change to cause this?) DJP

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https://www.homedesignersoftware.com/videos/watch/2313/ https://www.homedesignersoftware.com/videos/watch/2225/ https://www.homedesignersoftware.com/videos/watch/2226/ https://www.homedesignersoftware.com/videos/watch/2227/ https://www.homedesignersoftware.com/videos/watch/2228/ Each of the above links is to a tutorial on dimensions in Home Designer software, enjoy DJP

See if this article helps you: https://www.homedesignersoftware.com/support/article/KB-00718/modeling-a-sloping-terrain-for-a-walk-out-basement.html Something you need to understand about software, any software, it has no intelligence, no judgment. The end user must supply those. The software only does what it is "told" to do by you, so if you misunderstand a setting, miss a setting, wrongly guess at a setting of which the software has MANY chances to fail and only a narrow band of correct choices will do. I got the above Help Article from the Knowledge Base located at the Home Designer Website. If you will simply uncheck "Flatten Pad" in the Terrain Specification Dialog should handle the terrain directly next to the house. New users often add too many terrain elevation objects (points, lines, splines etc) making their resulting terrain plane object way too complicated. The more elevation objects used makes it that much harder to evaluate what needs to be edited to smooth things out. I use as few as is possible to gain my intended result. I will take a look at your plan file and get back to you here. Never mind, I now see that you attached a PDF of your plan (which is basically useless for anyone wanting to find out anything about your plan, sorry). DJP

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Cursor speed in Windows is controlled by Windows in "Settings-Mouse Properties", not in Chief. DJP

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What have you tried that did not work? I should think that another soffit would do, if you had Chief Premier you would have several more choices and tools for that. DJP

To answer this post I opened my copy of Home Designer Pro 2018 and looked finding that slabs can be custom created but not holes in slabs. In Chief Premier poly-line solids can be created in elevation views or plan views as well as cutting custom holes in them either way. You can take this up with Chief Architect Inc and the people who create the documentation for Chief Perrier and Home Designer in terms of the publication error but the facts still remain. DJP

No Home Designer title or version has that ability, so you must have been watching a tutorial designed for Chief Architect Premier, which does have those abilities. DJP

Not true, with a plan file in plan view the scale is set to 1' = 1' scale as most Architectural CAD programs are so set. It is common that when importing a "24" x 36" PDF if often comes in scaled to 1' = 1' but it is dangerous to assume this without checking its graphic dimensions with Home Designer dimension tools which are unchangeably set to 1' = 1' scale, on that you can depend. DJP

Temporarily turn off the "Dimensions" layer to make dimensions temporarily disappear. DJP