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Oh - I see. he says he has Architect - he means HD Architectural then. Better he just upgrades then. Then the software will do what he wants it to do - perhaps? Thanks Eric.

Hi - I worked on a plan design in HDPro ( not sure if you have Chief Architect or HD Architectural ) that had a couple of odd angled walls that they were non rectilinear (90degree) apart to each other - not ideal but allows a bit more design freedom I guess. I discovered in the 'General Plan defaults' - double click on 'Select Objects' pointer.... I entered the angles I wanted to establish and worked away from there. On the screen image attached I added 25 and 35 degrees for example. Also the plan (part) I worked on with odd angles. Hope this helps you.

OK - so can i ask what aspect under this preference will allow for tree shadows in HDPro2021?

For a pdf plan copy - in HDPro2021, My experience has been to 'Customise sheet sizes' firstly in print dialogue/menu to the size you want A1 - or size as whatever;; Follow - File\print\customise sheet sizes; Then, - under print layout\destination window select 'Chief Architect save as PDF'; Next confirm same paper size' Then, 'Save as PDF'. Now with the larger sheet sizes on HDPro2021. All great.

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Stage5 - I'll offer my experience on exactly the same issue; There are various free transparency tools on line that an image can be modified with prior to using into HDPro? Photoshop has an opacity adjustment. As I am on a Mac I have used a PNG image transparency tool EG which works well., https://onlinepngtools.com/create-transparent-png When I have traced walls of a sketch plan - I just keep all visible by moving them to the display front for clarity. Its quite workable for my uses.

OK - I just drew them as regular walls - the area enclosed by them is not defined. ( But could probably be 'Garage' also ) And as 'solver' says - the cladding can extend past or below the floor line, as it does, if its floor level is defined under the Room Specification 'structure' tab as a minus (-) value. ( In this case its left at 0 because the garage is sitting at 800mm ) Sorry I'm metric....The model or plan file, is attached so you can have look into it if you want. ( its metric also..)

OK - it seems that room names is everything, well - it certainly helped here. I've sorted out the wall woes thru refinement of joins and relationship to the 'Garage' room definition. Again all important things really. As for the door and floor elevation - sorted that in the new room ' structure'. Thanks for the simple lead Eric.

If I try to redraw the wall thats the problem(I assume) - I get the " the operation modifies automatically generated walls". If I proceed with the operation - the wall disappears - but then re-appears? I can't define the garage it seems for some reason? I can not select it as a room? Thanks Eric. OK - Found the problem with Garage room naming - thats all OK now, however it has complicated the appearance of the garage door and floor elevations. My goodness.

Hi QA Forum.... I have attached a plan of a project that I cannot resolve or see where my defaults and specification of structure has given the result - I need direction with this please; The three pics detail the results that was the outcome - and I suspect I have mixed up the defaults somewhere - but cannot see where exactly; All was fine with all walls, roofs, foundations etc - until I added some external steel clad walls to the edge of the garage doors creating an alcove or extended area forward of the garage doors - pretty straightforward - and now I have these other walls that have appeared ( as shown in the images attached ) The plan file is here also for anyone who has the urge to investigate a solution on it. I am sure it must be something I have or have not told the structure defaults - but I am lost as to what that is exactly. I just cannot see it - it needs more experienced eyes. Thanks in advance. AbbottSt_Version3.plan

OK - I made the two rooms into one room as you suggested - and jackpot, floor finish looks correct across the two spaces; No need t do anything else. Now why didn't I think of that. I will next time - so thank you again Chief_Content. Thanks to all other for their input also.

Yes - of course. You are spot on there - I do have a doorway between the rooms (not wall/room divider) - both rooms have different ceiling treatments - one has a flat ceiling - the other is raked or sloped to the roof structure; I am not immediately familiar as to how I combine two rooms into one - but I will explore the content of your suggestion. Thank you. Plan file is attached. Black_DualOcc_Interiors.plan

I applied a material I have used from the HDPro Library for the floor finish to two adjoining rooms. The material appears differently in each room as shown in the attached image taken from the model; Does anyone have any suggestions please as to why this could be; All the specs for the floor material to both rooms is identical - yet I have this accidental and non cohesive look. The material delineation is quite noticeable. I have deleted the material and re-applied other similar materials to the floor and the same instance occurs. I did not include the plan file as I was simply after first impressions and comments - if any? - as to what the cause might be. That's all - Many thanks to you all.

Why not just use the 'partition' tool - I do; It works very well.

I'm using HDPro2020 and I have an iMac 2012 (512Mb int. graphics) running OS High Sierra - and there has always been a bit of cursor lag; Thats just the Mac I have researched and I just work with it. It happens on other programs I use also. That spinning beachball is very familiar to me running HDPro - but the software HDPro2020 makes up for it. I have recently also read that the system configuration recommendations on the HDPro website/CA page - recommend a 4Gb 'gaming' graphics/video card - not a workstation video card. Are you working on plan files opened in the iCloud - or directly from from your hard-drive - as access to cloud can add to 'the lag' I realised.