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Here is what I found... DJP

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

Check out this article on the Knowledge Base of help articles at the Home Designer Website: https://www.homedesignersoftware.com/support/article/KB-00150/importing-and-tracing-over-an-image-of-a-floor-plan.html DJP

Yes you would have to create copy's of existing materials and apply those new materials to the new part of the construct, just saying "New" will not get the job done, it has to be a copy of the original material that has the original name + new as part of its file name in the plan you are working on. DJP

That is a tool of Chief Architect Premier, not Home Designer Pro, sorry. DJP

Got it, Eric, Home Designer products do not have a "Project Browser" like Chief Architect Premier has. DJP

Post the plan so others can also look and investigate instead of just guess. DJP

The "View Toolbars" command exists in Chief Architect and in Home Designer Pro just the same. Take a look. DJP

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Not trying to tempt you away form exactness but programs like "20-20" are specifically designed for cabinet CAD and costs a lot more than any or all Home Designer titles added together. Most custom cabinet makers use "20-20". As a professional designer, the vast majority of my cabinet drawings are for the homeowners I serve, any cabinet maker worth his salt does his own measuring and their own drawings using "20-20" or some such, my drawings are used to conceptually communicate the design intent to the cabinet professional who then creates their own drawings to actually build the cabinets from, not my drawings. I have been a successful Architectural Designer since the 1980's. Been using Chief Architect Premier since 1994 so this is not just my off the cuff opinion but based on successful experience. DJP

Which Home Designer version & title are you using please? DJP

In Home Designer, all titles and versions, layers are preassigned to object types, named alphabetically in the several "Layer Display Options" dialogs. Only in Chief Architect Premier can you move objects to different or custom layers. DJP

Each material is defined in two ways per material, one for Vector View Cameras ( lines and colors only) and Standard Render Cameras where 3D surfaces are painted with a Texture across those 3D faces. Different aspects of the same material for different camera types. DJP

Chief Architect Premier X10 DJP

For fourteen years I have been using Chief Architect Premier and Home Designer software, my business depends upon my ability to create and share PDF files with others. It is a simple but exacting process. DJP

Yes, of course. DJP

I took another look at your plan and there were four wall indicators on each of the foundation walls. I deleted all four of those indicators, turned auto-rebuild roofs back on and then the unwanted roof planes then did not come back. What the exact connection between the foundation wall indicator warnings and the unwanted roof planes was, I simply do not know but there did seem to be a connection of some kind. DJP

Open an overview camera, place the end of the house with the unwanted roof planes in view. Select and then delete the unwanted roof planes. With Auto Build Framing on, the framing will disappear along with the deleted roof planes. DJP

Here is a recent example of such a shower I did. DJP

Sounds like (without a copy of your plan, NO ONE could be 100% certain, so what comes next is my guess). With an attic room, which it sounds like this is it is the roof planes and not the room specification dialog that determines the knee wall heights. It is usual that such rooms are commonly built underneath an existing roof system in what was attic space. Son the only way to control knee-wall height is by manually raising or lowering EXISTING roof planes!, commonly this is an unnecessary expense for a re-modeler (you work with what is already there, otherwise you have to remove the existing roof and build an entirely new roof system (a lot more expensive to do merely to control knee wall height). If you have money to burn, then control the knee wall heights with a completely new, manual roof system, otherwise, like every other remodel company anywhere you design the bonus room with the space that exists, How I do this is by varying the width of the bonus room then and only then gives me control of the knee wall heights. By moving the knee walls inward or outward from the ridge of the roof then gives me control over knee wall height (not moving the roof planes or messing with the room specification dialog-ceiling height setting on the structure tab. Only when you post a copy of your .plan file will anyone then be able to answer you with anything other than best guesses. DJP

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