AlanS7

Solved. that worked, kind of cumbersome though. I placed the post with footing, then deleted the post it came with and kept the original post. the post it came with would't line up quite exact.now I need to do another post to straighten out my landscape. btw, I'm in the process of building the house so I'm making these design updates when they arise. The posts look better lined up with the porch posts. Thanks for your help.

the footings aren't available in the plan view. not sure how to find it. where would I find the "post with footing" item?

I can move the posts no problem. the footings however only move diagonally or up and down. I need them to move left and right.

In my design I wanted the deck roof to leave some sunshine on the ends. So when I build the deck the support posts don't line up with the roof posts to ceiling. In the orthographic view I can move the deck posts to line up with the post to ceiling manually. The concrete post footings won't move. In the full cameras view I can move the concert pads diagonally but not sideways to line them up. If I rebuild the floor it puts them out of line which does not look as good. I did split the railing at the end of the roof in to sections. On a minor note I can't seem to get the landscape to be smooth under. the deck. I've attached the plan. I am drawing in Home Designer Pro 2022, build 23.4.1.8OSX 21 main alt 21.plan.zip

Thanks for the direction. That cleaned things up nicely. Soo, what reference manual? Where do you find one?

I am closing in on my design and have 2 glitches. I had to manually build the roofs to make the design work, but there is a small mismatch. If I turn on auto build roofs it changes the roof design. Another issue is the extra posts. If I go with no posts on the ends of the porch (railings) then the corner posts don't show. I've tried adjusting the post distances. If I use post to beam then it works, but I don't really want the beams. Home Designer Pro 2022 main alt 09.plan.zip

I did insert a wall break I just didn't save it in the plan. A patio is not required to make a gable roof on the roof plan. I would work apparently because auto roof return was not checked, as you pointed out. It took me a while to find it. so now I have it close to what I want. the only way I can get the 3 posts under the vaulted roof (patio door) is to use the post to beam. this then puts a wall over the beam. I would rather have center post and cross beams. In the front with the kitchen door I want a shed roof. for some reason it doesn't fill in a flat ceiling and add the end wall above. here also if I change the railing style to post to ceiling it removes the end post on one end. I don't want a post at the wall. main alt 01a.plan.zip

I can't get my plan to build a roof over the patio area. I can start a new plan and it will work. It just doesn't do anything. Why can't my developed plan accept a vaulted gable roof where I want it. I first split the wall where the sliding door is and then selected it. open it and choose gable roof. I have attached my plan. HD Pro 2022 main alt 01.plan.zip

OK, this looks pretty good. When I have time I'll make a video tutorial for this since none can be found. Thanks for your help

I can scoot it around until it floats over the chimney. Is the best it will do?I think they should make a chimney tool.

Yes i am doing that, but it lands on the deck or in the yard. how exactly do you "apply" to the chimney cap area. I've tried dragging it to the plan view and also the 3d view,

Ok the slab works pretty well. How do I get a chimney cap attached.It doesn't want to go on top. I put a fireplace from the library and it kind of works.

I used a bump out wall. sometimes it puts a roof over it at the 8 foot level. I'm not sure why this one goes to the roof. I want it to go thru the roof. the fireplace doesn't insert all the way.

How can i build a chimney in home designer pro 2022? I would like it to have stone on both sides of the wall. Can someone direct me to a youtube tutorial. The only tut I can find is for premiere, and Pro doesn't have those features in the menu. This is as far as I have gotten.

not sure what a manual roof build is but, I found a video at 35:43 https://www.homedesignersoftware.com/videos/watch/10141/home-designer-beginning-roof-design.html?playlist=175 that showed me what I needed. What I did sounds like a manual build. CANCELCOMMENT

Seems like this would be easy to do but Ive been looking at youtube, searching the HomeTalk forum and watched the HD training videos. I still can't figure this out. I can change the porch roof to a gable, or hip roof but not a shed. When I open the dialogue window the closest option is high shed/gable wall.. Got a little issue with a ceiling gap on the porch, although this is minor. I tried reseting the defaults. This may change with a shed roof. I had a problem with a missing corner post but fudged around with the porch end wall and got it to show. Home Designer pro 2022 Thanks main house 16 2021.plan.zip

thanks very much for the video, that helped me understand how it works. It was not clear to me watching the Chief Architect video how the ceiling direction works.This makes it usable now. It still shows a faint shading from the gable roof. I tried lowering the ceiling but then it didn't match the dining room and showed a gap. I'll explore that a bit maybe raise the gable.

I have attached the plan with the added ceiling planes. ceiling example2.plan.zip

i get this message when I make a ceiling plane. I tried even manually connecting them.

I simplified the plan as much as possible and then zipped it. I'm not sure what you men by switching to vector view since this is a vector app. I don't have any ceiling planes in this because I could not get it to work. I want the interior roof pitch from the from gable to extend all the way back to the kitchen flat ceiling. the flat ceilings are working. The vaulted ceiling has compound slopes, instead of just the two coming from the windows. ceiling example.plan.zip

Homedesigner pro 2022. when I checked help from the error message on ceiling joining it just says it couldn't join. I haven't looked a youtube yet but I did watch the train videos on the subject. My plan is too big to attach but ll send some screen grabs

I just upgraded to Home designer pro from Suite, so I can solve my ceiling problem. It doesn't see to be possible. I created a gable roof 90 degrees off of the main gable roof. When I make the ceiling vaulted I get multiple angles. I want it to follow the smaller 90 degree ceiling. I tried using ceiling planes to do this and they won't join. I manually connected them and the ceiling goes wacky. I have a couple of invisible walls in the room under the gable. I tried making a tutorial plan as well and it doesn't work. How can I make the ceiling follow the 90 degree gable all the way back to the end of the room? Alan