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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