TheMadCadder

I've downloaded all the free cats I think I'll want... Any recommendations for 'must have' catalogs I should purchase as a new user?

Well hell... For several years I've been figuratively 'trapped' in another company's pile of garbage modeling software. I've been wanting to migrate to CA for decades. Since it first came out on Fred Meyer store shelves. I almost pulled the trigger a couple years ago (in a fit of rage over the previous platform's random bugginess) when the full version CA could be had for a one-time fee of $2800. Unfortunately I decided to wait given the economic times. When I did get to a better position and was more than ready to drop my wad down and move on over to CA I found they had gone to a SaaS price model...same price, now yearly, and I don't own the software. Holy hell was I disappointed as I refuse to pay that mount of cash for a product that I don't own outright. So I waited again...and gave up on the CA dream. Then I recently stumbled across CA's Home Designer Pro 2025...a standalone, stripped down version of CA...for $800?? Hell yes, take my money!! At least I won't have to use that other garbage anymore going forward. That alone will keep me onboard for quite a while but I seriously doubt I will ever sign on for a SaaS version and I'm very disappointed that I've finally got aboard the CA train only to find out I'll have to pay at every stop just to get to my destination. Not cool...not cool at all.

Oh thank you! Took a sec to figure out I need to send a vector view to layout otherwise the "plot lines" option is greyed out but I've got printable elevation views now!!

I'm just getting started on a migration to HD Pro from a different 3d modeling platform. At the moment I just need to be able to print simple 2d elevation views for my plans but I'm stuck. I searched here but didn't find any topics related so here I am. So far I've got elevation cameras set up in my plan file, and when I open them up they appear ok. When I send the view to layout it still appears ok for printing. The problems I am having is when I then do a test print from the layout, the elevation view in the test print has a light grey hue to it. I can't figure out what is causing it or how to get rid of it. I've been through my pdf printer settings (cutepdf) but can't find anything that would be causing it on that end. I've attached a cropped screen cap of the test print. Has anyone dealt with this issue before? Any help would be greatly appreciated!