dantappin

I figured out the terrain hold poly line thing and it still didn't fix. Then I watched your video (a second time with sound on) and the light bulb went off. I just bumped the room out as an over hang from the basement foundation assuming that this was ok - clearly not. I added a random box bay window and the issue does not repeat. Good post for the next person that does this. I then discovered that I had multiple terrain holes over top of each other - once I deleted them all I am good to go now.

Slab does "cover" the hole except you can't make a slab follow terrain. No settings I can see to add a soffit at ground level or do this "correct way" (what is the correct way?)

Clicking on it did nothing. This is no where to be found in the app help or the online knowledge base.

Seems to just be "Make Terrain Holes Around Buildings"

Yes - i can see the Edit Toolbar after selected the terrain perimeter. Now what?

Thanks for the heads up on this - I think I have it displayed now.

Can't seem to figure this out. I have a couple of bump outs and the terrain is missing under them.

I just came back to say I figured that out - lol What's the easiest way to draw the structure under here? Not super critical - just for "show".

Adding a typical set of stairs and a landing in the garage. When I add this I get this weird rendering where: The decking in inset inside the railings There are interior pony walls under the railings I have checked the setting of the area - set as a Deck. Perhaps that wrong. Any ideas here?

Old thread - tried "unfinished" and the room still has drywall on the walls and ceiling.

On a mac the preferences are in the Applications menu.

All goes well until your entire master list gets deleted after a crash!

Finally figured it out. Wow you are right not intuitive at all: Generate a material list Select line items you want to save Click 'Update to Master List' Edit master list with prices Go back to your material list - select the lines to update Click 'Update from Master List' Why can't the generation of a materials list automatically pull from the master list by default?

Hmmm... nope. Closest thing is 'Default Settings'. No where in any pane where you can set a default price for an material etc.

Pro 2025 - yes I know it has curved walls. If I add one if cuts it off under the stairs. I would even be happy with drawing the wall to hide the railing in the curved wall.

I hace a curved staircase (2025 Pro - Mac). One side is all railing. The inside will have a curved wall on the top half and I want railing at the bottom. It seems impossible to accomplish. I split the stairs yet you can't seem to change the railings for each half - it changes them all. Also How do I draw a curved wall on that inside that extends full height? The wall always gets cut off the angle of the stairs no matter what I do.

2025 Pro - Mac I have searched in here and the online manuals etc. I am failing to understand how you can set default prices for materials. For example basic materials like 4x8 drywall, OSB, studs, concrete. I get that you can create a materials list and manually updater unit costs. Is this not possible in the software? If so this is a huge failing. The online guide explains the procedure to update individual walls and then set prices. This then only updates the list for this items. I tried "updating to master list" that doesn't seem to anything. Changing prices in there has no effect. I want to run the material list for the whole house and see the updates as I make changes etc. Seems crazy to have to manually enter 200-300 lines of material costs each time. Dan

Working on a rough design (2025 Pro / Mac) and not happy with these 45 degree bump outs: * I wanted to eliminate them - my wife pulled the veto on me lol I think I am going to reduce the slope on the roof - seems way to steep I did the invisible wall hack on the exterior 45 degree corners I had to hack the overhangs to get the notches in the corners trying to allow an eavestrough from back to front and not have downspouts on the back of the house / deck interior walls are 9' when I added these bump out roof details the way I did the bump outs are still 9' and it added like 6" to the other walls in the attic layer to keep the common roof line on the elevation mockup below I really think the best would be best if the main walls stay 9' and the main roof extends over these bump outs and then just cuts off the roof as required Not really sure how to accomplish this in the software. Also open to any other ideas / suggestions. As an engineer I know I am being way to practical and trying to spruce this up and not just build a square "doll house". Dan

So I fixed that and got my floors sorted out - I still can't add stem walls to my garage - options greyed out: Do I have to manually build the foundation now? Auto-rebuild wipes my entire existing basement design with ICF walls.

I was thinking that. I started at Arch based on the feature that I thought I needed and planned to upgrade down the road. I may use my 14 day money back guarantee and see if I can upgrade the difference now and save some money. We are planning to GC this build ourselves and have like a 6-7 year planning schedule. Finding that this package will be invaluable for this.

Hmmm... I am sure I started that way and ran into problems - perhaps my in experience. So if I fix this then the garage added on to level 1 should work ok? Hoping I can just use the 'exchange floor' tool.

I have my lot sketched out and have about 50' drop c=from front to back. Elevation lines at the top (0') and the bottom (-50'). Added a few walls following the support docs etc and some examples: Each retaining wall has an elevation line above it 6' higher than before. Looks great. Now I try and read this up the hill next to the house to make a flat spot on the walkout - disaster! I could host some killer movie nights lol. Now I then tried to add a new elevation line below the new wall: Better however the side elevation are all messed up I really can't touch the elevations on the property line. I guess I could manually add a pile of points to level it out. Any ideas here?

Pretty new (2 days) to Home Designer - great software - just need to get the hang of this. I have a house on a sloped lot. The basement / walkout is level one and the main floor the garage which is down around 2 feet from the main floor. When I added the garage the floor was missing and the terrain open to below. I tried everything and ended up what I think is hacking this. I created a slab on the 1st floor and played withe the elevations etc until the floor met the second floor garage elevations. The problems I see / have are: - I want a stem wall around the garage - I tried to add them to first floor foundation but the garage doors won't break them and the slab was too deep - I suspect that the back portion of the garage will beed a full basement footing wall based on the slope I may be missing a basic feature / function here so please feel free to point out the obvious to me. Thanks, Dan

Hmmm - one other issue I see now. I also forgot I am stealing this design from my existing home. Do I just make the wall taller to accomplish this or can I even do this in the app?

Just ignore that - your answer is what I needed.