DavidJPotter

This is the email I received from Chief Architect Sales:
 
"Hello David,


 
Thank you for your call earlier today. Framing end profiles are a feature introduced for Chief Architect products and not Home Designer products. Our web team will be updating this soon on the Home Designer page. Thank you for alerting us to this.


 
If you have any additional questions, do not hesitate to contact us.


 
Have a good day!"


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See if the attached library file of a "Five Panel Door" will download and then install in HD Pro 2022 please.
 
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5 Panel door.calibz

In HD Pro with a layout file you will have to delete the old view on the layout page and then send from the new updated plan file the view which you wish to update on the layout file.
 
in Chief Premier you have a "Relink File" tool for such purposes but again, that, along with MANY other features is why Premier is a lot more expensive than HD Pro, sorry.
 
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Open a wall's dialog box. Go to its Wall Types tab. Click on "Define" and then define the wall as you wish.
 
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This software performs best when your structure is at right angles to the screen or at 7 degree increments. To create a structure at odd angles just makes the work ten times harder as the tools and objects you are using are not being used as they were programmed to be used. if a structure needs to be rotated relative to magnetic North you  have a "North Pointer" tool for that purpose, you rotate the North Pointer and never the structure. When you use any software in ways it was not designed to function you just make it harder on YOU.
 
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I had to use manual roof tools to iron all the problems out on your file, I do not think Architectural is really capable of doing this roof by settings alone.
 
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Farmhouse.zip

I think your best bet (provided you have Architectural or HD Pro) is to create the shutters from sloped soffits: one at an angle to emulate the shutter and little skinny ones to emulate what holds them open against gravity. I did look for existing symbols at the Home Designer website and then at 3D Warehouse first. I do have an old symbol I bought, years ago that might work, you are welcome to give it a try.
 
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Bahama Shutter.calibz

Yes, PROVIDED THE CHIEF ARCHITECT USER MANUALLY PROGRAMS THE FILE FOR USE IN HOME DESIGNER SOFTWARE TITLES BEFORE SHARING IT WITH YOU. The command, in Chief is found in "General Plan Defaults - Allow editing in Home Designer Software" Check box before sharing with you.
 

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Use a back-clip elevation camera to isolate just the single wall you want in the view, then turn off all visible layers in Display Options for that camera view so only framing shows. Then send that view to layout for printing.
 
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I am still not sure exactly is missing or there that should not be, in any case here is a You Tube video of me looking over and commenting on your plan file:
 
https://youtu.be/DCShokbaJFA
 
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In Home Designer Pro you can adjust the sides and top of a view sent to layout using the provided handles of the view on layout, no CAD mask is required, you show what you want to show on layout.
 
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You can also just make filler upper cabinets and base cabinets that are 3" wide and manually place them, before auto fillers were added several versions that was the only way it could be done and the old method still works.
 
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I am sorry in that I made a video but the sound did not record for some reason. What I did was to add  a room above the room where you wanted the 18' ceiling. I designated it "Open Below" so as to remove the floor.
 
On the first floor I opened the dialog boxes for the kitchen and great room and unchecked "ceiling" making the second floor room the one that defines the ceiling for both spaces. I then added a cabinet soffit over the exposed section of the room common with the house. The edited file is attached below.
 
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File DMA-E_08-26-16.plan

Check the room specification dialogs directly underneath where the roof generator is working incorrectly, look for settings that are causing the roof generator to fail.
 
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What Eric means is that how to create custom materials has been discussed here before. If you know how to create custom materails, you can do whatever you like with them within their barriers.
 
Also read some these help articles: https://www.homedesignersoftware.com/search/?q=custom+material
 
 
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If you edit the component parts of a dormer improperly of course you will destroy its usefulness, as a unified object (Dormer Tool) the placement of the dormer is critical. If you really need to edit the dormer it should be "exploded" into its parts ( roof plane, hole in the roof poly line, Walls) and once exploded carefully rearrange  the parts manually until you  get the outcome intended. It is not a difficult process but is exacting and unforgiving when missteps are taken.
 
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Railing walls have a dialog box for their editing, unlike other walls that also have edit handles as you have observed.
 
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That just indicates that the grade beam (footing) has been notched for a door, it is an automatic function of the software. Unless you are a State Licensed Structural Engineer and thus licensed by the State to draw actual foundation plans, don't worry about minor details like that.
 
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This is not rocket science, just open your software and give it a try until you figure it out by trial and error (that is the best way, anyway). Read the data you have and then try that, until you get the outcome you want.
 
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You can place a thin soffit, sized to the same dimensions and height location as the landing and have the landing soffit carry whatever material you wish. By default, landings pick up their material from the stairs they are connected to, so the soffit is a way to get around that and have what you want relative to appearance.
 
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Here is your edited plan attached and a video of me working on it in X8 (my copy of Pro 2017 is on my laptop - other PC):
 
https://youtu.be/P284mjCim6U
 
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House 160412 01 ... 160408 04 architect no interior.plan

How close you can place windows is controlled in Window Defaults - spacing. That value can be as little as zero to whatever you like. Otherwise it is like Eric said: measure your space. Figure out how many windows at what dimensions and then place the windows, then group select the four windows and use the "Center tool" on the group selection set. Same as you would do in the field.
 
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