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Your windows don't have "Casing" for the exterior checked, but that's going to put casing around the whole window. I don't think any of the Home Designer programs let you mull windows together to do what you want, and they don't have the manual moldings tools that Premier does, so a custom backsplash or even using the Closed box shape from the Library for going just around the outside of the windows to fake the look of trim is probably your best bet without upgrading. Also, it looks like you may have used "Copy/Paste Hold Position" a few too many times. The top and bottom windows on the left (when viewed from the outside) both have two windows at the same spot.

If you have Suite, Essentials, or Interiors, this one explains editing a Base Cabinet so that you are only left with the countertop. KB-00855: Creating a Breakfast Bar If you have Architectural or Pro, use a Custom Countertop, like this. KB-00983: Creating a Custom Shaped Countertop

If you can find them in a DXF format somewhere, you can import them in as line drawings and then edit as needed since your signature says you have Pro. Here's one site that looks like it has some. http://www.apacad.org/?q=foundation Also, if you can find them as DWG files, you can convert them to DXF too using something like this DWG to DXF converter. Most of the Home Designer programs don't have the tools, or need, to create these, so you might want to post on ChiefTalk in the Symbols & Content section as well. Or just go ahead and start from scratch following the instructions in the Knowledge Base article KB-00439: Creating a Cross Section Detail in Home Designer Pro since it doesn't look like it would actually take much time.

KB-00305: Changing a Room's Materials KB-01178: Creating an Image for Use in a Real Estate Brochure KB-00074 (Pro only): Creating a Floor Plan with Colors and Patterns

Either you unchecked "Auto Rebuild Roofs" in the Build Roof dialog OR you checked "Ignore Top Floor" in the Build Roof dialog OR you don't have an enclosed room on Floor 2 most likely caused by trying to use an existing Attic Wall from a gable because those have "No Room Definition" checked in their Wall Specification dialogs by default.

1) Add the Crown molding to the shower room. 2) Cover it up with a Closed box shape from the Library Browser and 3) use two more for either side of the door. 4) Pro lets you add moldings to Soffits.

KB-00337: Resources for Learning Home Designer

I think that the master list is also in the Data folder. KB-02972: Migrating Home Designer to a New Computer

To the right of the search field on the 3D Library page, there's a bunch of drop down filters. The last one is for version. Check the "X5 / 2014" so you'll only see downloads compatible with your program.

I swear I'd seen this before. I was right. You resurrected a post from 2014 to literally Copy/Paste the Answer section from THIS Knowledge Base article? Why? What's the point? I don't understand.

I was thinking maybe the door was raised up from the floor or something, but it looks fine to me?

All of them look pretty good to me! I think part of the problem is just the angle and having the glass shower door be displayed as open from that location.

Seconding what solver said. Not a common occurrence, contact the company's tech support people to troubleshoot. KB-00717: Using the Online Support Center

For the original question, stairs are filled with a Solid white color by default, but you can change it to None and make it transparent so that you can see what's underneath. KB-00622: Making Stairs Transparent in Floor Plan

I had to double check the mirror reflections article, and it looks like they were added in 2015 for Suite and higher, so yes, you should be able to do reflective floors in Suite 2016. I would just use the Material Painter in a 3D camera view to apply the "Mirror" material (located in Materials> Glass & Glazing> Mirror) to the floor in your room. (You might have to use Final View with shadows to have the perfect mirror reflection show up in your version, not sure.) Actual floors aren't a perfect mirror, of course, so you'll want to place something like the "Closed" box Shape from the Library Browser and make it as wide as the room, but really small in height, like 1/8". Then use the Material Painter to paint the closed box whatever material you want for your flooring, wood, tile, (probably not carpet though, carpet's not shiny ), you get the idea. After you've applied the flooring material, use the "Adjust Material Definition" rainbow tool to click on the flooring and set the Transparency to something like 20% and click OK. (Side note, if you've used the same material elsewhere in your plan but not for flooring, doing it this way is also going to make it slightly transparent there as well, so maybe use a unique material, or make a copy of the original material in your User Catalog where you set the transparency.) Now you should have a floor that reflects what is above it like a "shiny" surface would. You might have to play around with the floorings and level of transparency to get the best look though, and for non-rectangular rooms, I think you may need to use more than one Closed box because it doesn't look like it has slabs that can be shaped to match the room like Architectural and Pro do.

Yes, Patterns display in line views like the Vector rendering technique used for Cross Section/Elevation views, and Textures display in most other rendering techniques. You can change the Pattern without changing the Texture, but odds are that you should be changing both. Also, see KB-00131: Using the Blend Colors With Materials Tool

KB-01202: Importing Custom Materials

KB-00141: Stacking Appliances in Cabinets

As I recall, Suite only has rendered elevations, not line drawing ones, so the views look a little bit different than some of what you may have seen created in Pro on the website or in some articles (not sure about differences with the tutorials though). It does just look like you need to add some lighting to brighten up the view.

Seconding Jo_Ann's recommendation to go through the User's Guide. Make sure you understand everything there, then use the same basic steps in the same order for creating your own plan. Any time you run into a snag, make sure you check the videos, articles, and other Help stuff and if you still can't figure it out, start a new thread and post here with your question.

KB-00140: Controlling Floor and Ceiling Heights

KB-00903: Enabling or Disabling the Display of Crosshairs

The Formica and EnviroGLAS and some other "Materials & Surfaces" manufacturer might have some that look close to what you want. Have you checked out the free 3D Library downloads? or KB-01084: Creating a Custom Library Material

Turn off Auto Rebuild Roofs BEFORE you raise the Ceiling Height in the other room.

What?! No. This is really, really, REALLY bad info. You'd be creating so much more work for yourself to do every floor and elevation in multiple plans, and then every time you made a change you'd have to update every file, and with floors in different plans, your elevations would be wrong. You create all of your floors for the structure in the same PLAN. You generate camera views like Cross Sections and Elevations from that same PLAN. Create a new LAYOUT file for each individual page needed for your working drawings and send views from your PLAN over to that LAYOUT. (Also, obligatory mention of upgrading to Premier which has multi-page layouts, no print size limits, and the ability to create and save custom templates)