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I have a loose idea for a renovation. I've modelled my as-built house. It is full of artifacts of my amateur user status (small gaps in walls, random bits of railing around my staircase) but that's sort of in the noise that I don't need to fix at the moment. What I'd like to do is hide a handful of interior walls and doors, and put in new walls and doors. I was expecting to be able to assign some walls and doors to a layer (like "as-built remove") and add a layer with "renovation add" and sort of be able to switch between them. Does that functionality exist? Do I need to create a full copy of my layout? I was hoping to avoid that so that as I learn, and fix the random mistakes, I wouldn't have to track those changes across 2 different layouts. I come from SolidWorks product design, where I would switch between configurations of similar designs. I may be looking for a feature that isn't there. I don't want to derail this narrow topic too much, but if someone would like to clean this project up a bit, I am interested to know your rates. I'm looking for dozens of dollars not thousands. For thousands, I'll just keep it looking amateur. High on the list: roof planes are all manual, and funky. Can't get 2nd floor to snap to reference 1st floor. Random holes in walls, probably because I don't know how to build the walls/roof correctly? Using Win 11, Home Designer 2026. Link to a copy of my project file: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1V_bf9ia4x7ozGTN-zPN5Oy2Trqqe5nKJ/view?usp=sharing

I'm not married to auto roof, I've done a couple manual planes in my experimenting. Making the dormer on the back of Cape is giving me the most headaches. The problem I'm having is I don't know how to make exterior walls of different heights. The 2nd floor is 1.5" tall @ 10.5/12 pitch under the small return eave, but then 93" tall @ 6/12 pitch under the dormer eave. Maybe you might be able to help me break it down. I attached a pic of a basic cape with a shed dormer, where the Cape roof eave does not cross under the dormer. If I can get that modeled, I can fumble my way through the various additions and bump outs.

Thanks, I've got the 2D and 3D side by side but I really need guidance on splitting walls or some other approach. I'm about 40 hours into tutorial videos, and am now at the point that I'm out of things to experiment with. I'm Thomas Edison with the 300 ways not to make a light bulb...

I'm new to Chief Architect/Home Designer, coming from years of product design in solidworks. I was able to make my 1st floor and 2nd floor plans, but I can't figure out how to get the proper roof lines. The house is a cape at its core. But it has a couple of extensions and dormers that I can't figure out how to contend with. The attached pics are some plans a designer made in Revit from when we were planning an extension (I did a bit of cut/pasting to cover the extension). I'm trying to put together an As-Built in Home Designer so I can play around with other changes I might make to the floor plan. I also attached a screenshot of what the roof looks like in HD with some of the issues I'm trying to fix. I have watched videos about "ignore top floor" where I treat the 2nd floor like an attic, and raise the 1st floor roof ~10". That's what's shown in the screenshot. That looks better than what I had in my 1st run. But I still can't get the roof lines to split. And I can't figure out how to get half the house at 10.5/12 and half at 6/12 pitch. When I make the change in the wall properties, the ridge line shifts towards the front of the house since it still starts both slopes at the 10" above Floor 1 ceiling. Also, I don't know where HD stores my files so I haven't been able to share. Hello there is appreciated as well.