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Thanks y-g-m-n. but actually no.I have tried that and it colors the outside of the pipe - i.e .the material of the pipe , but on the plan view you don't see that. You need to kind of fill between the walls of the pipe and color that

Home Designer Pro 2022 Build 23.4.1.8 x64. I am restructuring my house and I would like to show the plumbing system. So I can use cylinders for the pipes but I would like to differentiate between hot and cold. It would be great if you could colour the cylinders but I can't find a way of doing that. Has anyone else tried to do it and if you were successful perhaps you could share

Eric. Many thanks for putting me right - and no I didn't build the house like this

I have designed my house and configured the surrounding terrain. The house is at floor level 1, "100 mm" above the terrain "0" level. We have now decided on the position of the external garage. The garage will be 500cms below the terrain level. I have placed a slab of the correct size where I want the garage and now I want to build the garage on the slab. But when I try to construct the walls they are at floor level 1 and I cannot discover how i can alter the elevation and the height of the walls. Where are the wall defaults set? And how do you suggest i construct these walls? Many thanks. Mike Home Designer Pro 2022

David. My problem is related but different. In the attached two screen shots you can see the front of my home. To the left are two walls with the terrain at the right height relative to the building floor. The greyed-out area is a driveway which slopes down - the drop is about 1 metre from the house to the gate. I have defined this area as an "elevation region" and then tried to use "elevation lines" with negative elevations to plot the fall in this area. But when I build the terrain everything (not just this region) changes and I get a real mess. Where am I going wrong?

OK Thanks

Hi. I've just bought an old house and the walls are 0.97 metres thick. The doors on the outside face of the wall open inward against the wall. I don't seem to be able to model this. If I change the swing angle to -90 degrees, it moves it to the inside wall face which means it swings into the next room - which in reality it does not. Has anyone also had this problem and does anyone have a solution. Many thanks

Thanks for that. In the end I created a landing and joined easy part of the stairs to it as separate stairs, and that allowed me to do what I wanted. But appreciate the reply

Many thanks - that's great. David I know it's a different topic but your help would be great. I have an L shaped set of stairs. The bottom part up to the landing is solid underneath but the second part is open. No matter what I try ( I select each section seperately for instance) either both are open or both are solid. Is there another trick I'm missing? Thanks. Mike

I have drawn some stairs from the ground floor to the first floor. The railing on the stairs appears in the 1st floor 3d image but there is no cut-out for the stairs. I have tried drawing them from the ground floor to the first floor up and from the 1st floor to the ground floor down but it doesn't matter. What am I doing wrong?

Eric. Amazing Thanks very much indeed. Really appreciate it. Mike

Here is a picture I hope it will explain. As well as the grey wall on the external landing (in my drawing) you can see the stairs themselves (on the picture) actually have a wall - not unlike a normal set of stairs - except this is solid.

Eric Thanks for the advice. Appreciate it. I think I've been through most of the self help I attach a picture

I am modelling a renovation project on a two story building. The second floor is independent of the first and has a concrete staircase from the ground up to the second floor. The staircase has a wall which I am trying to model from the ground floor along the steps up to the second floor. Does anyone know how to do that? Is it possible in Home Designer Pro. For instance what happens if you have a wall along sloping terrain. Anyway - any help would be great