DavidJPotter

In Home Designer software you can draw slabs but not tilted slabs like a roof plane. Depending on what Home Designer title and version you have will determine what you can do to emulate what you wish, what do you have? Once we know what software you have then more useful data can then come to you and your potential choices. DJP

#1: https://www.homedesignersoftware.com/support/article/KB-02947/creating-a-split-level-structure.html #2: https://www.homedesignersoftware.com/support/article/KB-00205/allowing-windows-to-span-across-multiple-floors.html This article may or may not "answer" your specific question but should start you on your way. My favorite source for useful help is the Knowledge Base of Help Articles found at the Home Designer Website, it should be yours as well. DJP

You would have to upgrade to Chief Architect Premier's .layouts in order to have a multi-page layout. In Pro you create a single .layout file for each intended printed page (one layout=one printed page). DJP

No, your only recourse is Chief Architect Support in such a case. Your license is "still active" on your old computer and is not recognized on your current one, it is a digital thing. DJP

Edit-Default Settings-Cabinets-Materials per cabinet type. DJP

Layout files are not capable of "Memory" at all, but they are sensitive to the fact that you rename the plan file you sent views from or if you physically moved a plan file or other files you may have sent to (associated) with a layout page (they are programmed to "remember" the file name and location of files or views sent to layout by you. That is probably what happened. Once sent to a layout file you should never then rename a plan file or move its physical location on your PC or Mac. DJP

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