JGiacchi

Ok! Thank you, these were helpful. The tip to cut and paste between layers was what I was missing to show all of the relevant information at the same time. I've attached a PDF showing where I am at and I am almost done with what I need. My two follow on questions. The text for the labels on the survey lines are small and unreadable. How do I adjust the labels on the terrain perimeter lines to make them bigger? I'd like to add dimensions in showing the relative location of the shed and the garage with respect to the house, but I am a little confused as to how to add specific dimensions without showing all dimensions. It seems like my choices are between automatic and manual dimensions, I don't see an option to show just some of the manual dimensions. I put in a lot of manual dimensions when I was creating the framing for the house, so it gets quite busy when i turn them on. In addition in order to get the dimensions I had to add invisible walls to allow something to snap the dimensions to, otherwise the dimensions would also snap to one on the shortest angle distance between the corners, not the horizontal and vertical dimensions. It seems like that is a poor way of doing it and I feel like there would be a better way of doing it then that. Thanks again for your help! Jim HousePlanwBarn.pdf

I am using Home Designer Pro 2021 to submit drawings for a building permit, My plan file can be found at https://drive.google.com/file/d/1E8cEI147qmEkBl0m5213dYZYV7b-iD1D/view?usp=sharing I've searched, but I haven't had much luck finding any information on how to assemble the drawing. I apologize if this is obvious, but I couldn't find any tutorials or anything related to Home Designer. I did find a tutorial for Chief Architect that was what I would like to do https://www.chiefarchitect.com/videos/watch/1930/creating-a-site-plan-or-plot-plan.html?playlist=101 , but wasn't sure if there was an equivalent set of features I could use in Home Designer. I've been able to draw my house well enough for my purposes and I was able to import the survey information, but I am having trouble figuring out the layout tool. It seems like the data I want is on different floors of the house, the survey is on floor 0, the North Facing arrow is on Floor 1, and the roof outline is on floor 2. My goal is to have an end result like the below link. https://www.maricopa.gov/DocumentCenter/View/15365/Typical-Site-Plan-Example-with-Checklist-PDF Thank you very much, Jim

Thank you both! That gets me right back on track and included some tips I didn't even know to ask about! I am sure that I will have more questions, but this puts me in the right direction. Thanks again, Jim

Hello all, I am designing an addition to my home using Home Designer Pro 2021 (64 Bit). I have attached four pictures and the entire plan, I've written a short description under each, but the problems are related to the roof meeting up with the top framing and the columns meeting up with the bottom of the roof. I have two sections where small frame members are sticking through that definitely shouldn't be there and I am unsure why. They aren't full boards that are extending through the roof, they are very short pieces of lumber. Not quite sure why those are there and after messing with it for a few hours, I haven't had much luck figuring out why it is occurring. The roof is also having some odd issues with the columns for the front porch. The right most column comes in without issue, but the left column will not. If I remove the railing on the left hand side of the porch, the column then displays, but then the railing doesn't have anything to attach to at the top. I believe the problem lies with the interaction between the left railing and the front railing wall that I used to create the columns. The back of the eaves doesn't have any cover on the back side. I'm sure it's a setting that I am missing, but I can't see anything obvious. Thank you so much for your assistance and apologies in advance, I read the what to post when you are posting and I did search through the archives, so forgive me when I missed something obvious either in my post or in the forum. Jim HousePlanC.plan