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Don't use "Calculate for Room" for what you want. From the software's Help: A Materials List calculated from a room is created for only the contents of that room: wall materials are not included. Calculate "From Area" or "All Floors" instead.

From the program's Help: If a zero-thickness Room Divider separates two rooms with different floor and/or ceiling heights, its wall type will be changed to the current plan’s default Interior Wall so that the platform step created by the height difference can be enclosed.

Edit> Edit Area, create a selection marquee around the right side of the house, use the center move edit handle to drag it over.

If you are talking about 3D, you might want to make it as large on screen as you can, then use Final View with Shadows before you export. Pro has more options on exporting images for the size/resolution, but from looking at the Comparison Matrix, I don't think Suite has that feature.

Yep, FLOOR cameras only show the current floor, nothing above/below. Use FULL camera instead.

KB-00269: Creating a Split Level Entry KB-02947: Creating a Split Level Structure

The way this software works is with connected walls. Get the overall shape right first, then precisely position the walls relative to each other using dimensions. (Go through the User's Guide under your Help menu if you haven't already, it does a good job of explaining this.) This video helps to explain as well. https://video.homedesigner.chiefarchitect.com/?search=move+walls

I don't believe the Stair tool will create a spiral stair. KB-00177: Placing a Spiral Staircase and Stairwell

The reason that you can't create a room with automatically generated Attic Walls is that they have "No Room Definition" selected by default in their Wall Specification dialog (General panel). You can just uncheck that option (and No Locate too, if you want dimensions to be able to locate the walls) so that you can use them for creating room definition. There's no need to delete them just to create other walls at the same location.

Excellent! I'm glad that worked for you.

There are quite a few situations with the automatic roof generator that you can use "trickery" to get what you want, then just turn off Auto Rebuild for the roof and make further adjustments. Call it trickery, or workarounds, or what have you, but it's nice that there's ways to do complex roofs without having to upgrade to get Roof Groups and the other manual capabilities offered in Pro. I was able to get by for many years using the less advanced versions using those techniques. (I was going to say that Jo_Ann's steps worked without the results shown in your last screenshot, but I see now that she's already written back to reread them. )

Help> Launch Help Search MASTER LIST. From the Help: The Master List saves price, supplier, manufacturer, and other information about items in your Materials Lists and allows you to apply that information to items in future Materials Lists. Select Tools> Materials List> Master List to open the Master List. Home Designer Pro allows you to have more than one Master List. Only one can be active, however, and only the active list is updated with new information. You can specify which Master List is active in the Preferences dialog. There's more information in the Help that you can look over, and a little bit of information in this Knowledge Base article as well. https://www.homedesignersoftware.com/support/article/KB-00453/estimating-material-costs-in-home-designer-pro.html

I suspected as much, but since I didn't see it when I searched the comparison matrix I was hoping it might be in there.

KB-00367: Drawing a Shed Dormer Manually

I've definitely had plans open on Floor A and swear that's not the state I saved them in, but I've never been able to reproduce it to submit anything to Technical Support.

Under "Exteriors and Landscaping." It says that its free. Some of the other ones have prices or require SSA, but not that one.

"Explode Architectural Block" is only available for architectural blocks as an edit tool. It isn't available for everything. What were you hoping to be able to use it on? Or were you referring to making an Architectural Block? You'll only have that edit tool if you have applicable things selected (like it you have a Rich Text box selected along with some cabinets, you won't see the edit tool). I don't recall ever seeing a clothesline in the Library Browser (and I have most of the bonus/manufacturer catalogs installed and a search doesn't come up with anything either) so maybe import one from SketchUp? KB-00888: Importing 3D Symbols https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/search.html?q=clothesline

Make a Slab room, lower the Floor height (I just made the concrete slab floor the same material as the Terrain before realizing in your image that you may actually want to see the Slab), uncheck Roof Over this Room. Place your door, set is as arched and whatever door/gate you want it in.

If available in your version, in the Library Browser, go to Home Designer Core Catalogs> Interiors> Pillows. Choose an appropriate pillow and place it in your plan, then adjust its position/size however you want on the sofa.

Does the Railing Specification dialog have a Rail Style panel with the option to "Follow Stairs"? Pro does, but I don't still have my old copy of Architectural installed to check and I'd hate to download the trial version just to see if it has this one setting.

You're on the Attic level (Floor A), go down to Floor 1.

I'm not seeing a gap, but your custom "Exterior Stone Wall" wall type is set up in a rather odd fashion (vapor barrier on the inside of the framing and no drywall?). Like solver, if I generate a new Floor 2 in your most recent plan it does create a completed enclosed space.

Certain manufacturers choose to only make their catalogs available for the Premier version and not Home Designer, so my guess is that there's some kind of check to make sure those calibz files can't be used in a less advanced version.

The new plan doesn't have an enclosed space on Floor 2 to make a room, so the roof planes building over the Bow window from Floor 1 are going to cut off some of the walls on Floor 2.

Home Designer Bonus Catalogs> Exterior Attachments> Cupolas & Weathervanes> Weathervane. 3D Library - Exterior Attachments download https://3dlibrary.chiefarchitect.com/index.php?r=site/detail/635 Or . . . KB-00888: Importing 3D Symbols https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/model.html?id=6e65e84e774e684e7bf1a25ddfec02ee https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/model.html?id=122d91e5b593d4c16152ed2f8fe5aedb https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/model.html?id=92f32bad61ae1ce9cf154986f4241a68