DavidJPotter

Nope, that is your job You look at it and adjust manually as necessary The whole point of Default Settings and Text Defaults/Stiles is to be able to manually customize them to your liking. DJP

Ar arched opening in a glass or any other wall type is a door opening with its casing and sill turned off. Each door or door opening has a dialog box with an Arch tab. DJP

What tool, exactly did you use unsuccessfully? Can you post a copy of your plan or at least an image of what is not working? DJP

The "Wall Detail" feature is Chief Premier only and has never been a part of Home Designer Pro. As Eric said, the "Auto Detail" tool is also Cheif Premier only and has never been a part of HD Pro's feature line up. DJP

Since you cannot manually resize wall poly-lines like you can in Pro, In Architectural, Suite, and Essentials you have to use objects to represent glass walls that you can control their height. My choice would be soffits found in "cabinet tools", you set it to emulate glass and can easily control its height. You section the corner shower from the bathroom using invisible walls and you turn off the moldings in the shower room. DJP

The easiest thing a "Newbie" can do is to err (I know I did). What you need to do is to read your "Users Guide" (found under the "Help" Menu and when you get stumped, DO NOT GUESS, but rather use the built-in "Help" files to gain actual data you can use to become more competent with the software. For more, in-depth information, also found under "Help" is your "Reference Manual" which contains everything you need to know about how to do things with your software, get started. DJP

My take on your problems DJP

Call Tech Support then. DJP

If you haven't already, read your "Users Guide" found under the "Help" menu, it is only thirty or so pages long. Then a little, each day read-study-practice sections of your "Reference Manual" also found under the "Help" menu. The Reference Manual is over 2,000 pages long so that is why I recommend that you study- read it in small sessions balancing the study with practice so that data studied becomes Knowledge and competence for you afterward. Everything that needs doing using the software is fully described therein.Video tutorials are also referenced by subject in the Reference manual which is fully searchable by topic. tool or procedure. DJP

Edit - Default Settings - Camera - General Camera if you have Home Designer Pro. In Architectural that setting is found under "3D - Backdrop - Render Techniques". I Suite and Essentials, you have no such choices available. What do you have? DJP

I should have read the other subsequent posts first but I did not, hope this helps anyway DJP

I am sorry you are having a difficulty with Pro 2018, I have not had any such problems with Chief Premier X9 or Pro 2018. Let us know if any solution is forthcoming from Tech Support. DJP

Like it or not, it is one of the main differences between Chief Premier and Home Designer titles. DJP

The lesson you should learn from this is to "NOT DO THAT AGAIN" . Never delete the first floor as some kind of "solution"; doing that is not recommended. The software is predicated upon the first floor as the construct's "stable datum". The entire model figures its relative heights from the first-floor level, so when you delete that, it throws the 3D model into a chaos, which you have seen. You develop the primary structure and its floors, then add terrain and adjust it to the structure.You can alter the "building outline" without deleting the first floor you know. If you will take the time to carefully read your provided "Users Guide" and "Reference Manual" you will see that there are no references to deleting the first floor as a solution to anything. DJP

Only Home Designer Pro offers .dxf import drawing ability, sorry. DJP

Number one, you have not built an actual foundation as yet, I do not see "Exterior wall extending through slab" as you have said. What you see is there until you do specify and build one. Number two is that exactly why wall polylines do what they do is a question for the Software Architects and Engineers at Chief Inc Tech Support. Me personally I just deal with what is there and complete my work per plan. DJP PS: He actually does have Home Designer Pro 9. I opened in in Home Designer Pro 10 (the oldest HD app on my Windows 10 PC. I use another hard drive with Windows XP for older apps)

Each camera type has its Own "Display Options" dialog which gives you complete control over what shows (is visible) or not, take a look. There is also a separate "Display Options" dialog for plan view and for the "Reference Display views. DJP

Open your Reference Manual, do a search for ""Eyebrow Dormer" and then carefully read that manual section. Then 0pen "Edit Default Settings - Dormer" then select from the "Type" drop-down "Eyebrow" and then adjust as necessary once created. Every object has a dialog box once created. DJP

What I have done in the past when this happens is to reattach roof plane edges in the area and finally to just fill in the missing soffit surface with a soffit object or a custom slab with material to match. Not everything that is "automatic" actually is. DJP

:I use an AutoDesk AutoCAD called "True View" to view .dwg and .dxf files. It is free to download and use I also have and use another application called "Autodesk Design Review" for a similar purpose. DJP

No current or past version or titles of Home Designer have this feature. It does exist in Chief Premier Versions and titles, sorry. DJP

You would first have to know what the dimensions are and then add them using an image editing program such as Photoshop. Sketch Up has this feature built in but as Eric said, no Chief or HD applications do. DJP

This is a common problem easily solved. Each material has a dialog box where it can be edited as to size, direction, color, and angle. Each material is defined for each main camera type: Vector view= lines and colors and Standard=that shows materials across 3D faces of objects. In the case where you need the same material in two places, running two different angles then one makes a "Copy" of such a material for this purpose. Each copy can be set to run a different angle or direction provided it has a slightly different name in the plan. Data on this can be read here: https://www.homedesignersoftware.com/search/?default_tab=support&q=custom+material DJP

Right or wrong, that design is bad architecture, it unecessarily creates a huge "Dead Valley" between the garage and entry which is bound to become a leaky roof at some point. In any case, you may have noticed that Jo Ann has been using a copy of Home Designer Pro trial software. Home Designer Suite is not capable of the roof design you seem to want to have. You will need to upgrade to Home Designer Pro and then learn its manual roof tools to get this design work done IMHO. DJP

When you import such symbol files part of the import process involves you choosing to "Add to Library" as part of that process. If you did not do this, then it was not done. if the symbols are part of a plan file you created you can, after the fact add such symbols to your library browser using the "Edit Toolbar" command "Add to Library". DJP