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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.

Perfect! - this seems somewhat obvious now that you explained the invisible wall concept - I have another roof issue that I am sure I can fix this way. I might extend the overhang on the west side to avoid that 'just out'. I can't seem to hide / delete the framing under the hidden rooms - this is the second level as level one is the 'basement' / walkout.

So this exactly - the peak of that gable hormonal vs running up to th peak of the main gable. How do you adjust the plan etc to get this? I have the pushed out wall set to a gable wall.

This is probably bad choice of terminology lol - your first picture is exactly right and what I am looking to do.

Yes - exactly.

Hello all - new to HomeDesign - currently running 2025 Arch on the Mac. I am having trouble understanding the roof features. Attached is my plan and 3D view. That 45 angle jut out is an overhang. I want the gable on the south wall to be continuous with the rest of the roof and the west gable to be a small dormer / tied tie into the main roof. Starting to think I need the Pro version to make the custom roof sections like this. Is this possible wit the Arch version? Dan