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I have a license for HD Pro 2021 that I am willing to sell for a heavily discounted price. It's not for hundreds more, so it may make sense to him. There are probably a lot of other things that will be coming up for this project where an upgrade may help him. It's no skin off my nose whether he upgrades or not. Would be nice if he could do everything in Suite, yet I don't see it happening. I don't download plans other people post, so I don't know what else is off. Maybe with some practice of specific issues on a less complicated plan would be a place to start for learning how the program works instead of trying to tackle everything at once?

Please upgrade to Pro so you can do manual roofs, and so much more! Try going to the HD website, and see what it will cost to upgrade from your version of suite to the newest Pro version. It may only be $100 or so. If it's a lot, I have a key for HD Pro 2021 that I have been trying to sell since people I bought it for never panned out as far as helping me with my design work.

It's a post in the general framing, if suite has that?! If not, upgrade to Pro or something, as this project seems to be outside of the simple things Suite can do and you're just going to frustrate yourself. Did you look for shapes? Go the library browser and search for "Closed."

I don't know if Suite has "shapes"? If it does, you can use a closed block and make it whatever size you need. I don't know if shapes will go to materials list. Maybe under you general framing DBX, you can select "post"? Make it the size you want, and the materials you want. If you want it to look like it has rebar in it, go back to shapes, or CAD circles, and make a diameter one the size you think the rebar would be. You can then place those on the top of the post so it "looks" like rebar in the post. Please, spend some time going through your reference manual, or the help menu available on each screen.

If you didn't save your plan, check your archive folder, as the program will auto save projects at certain time intervals. It should have something there.

It's ok. Spend some time reading the reference manual for more help

They're most likely gable walls, which are correct

Change the side garage wall from a gable to a hip roof default

What if you try to edit the 2nd floor and rotate that? If your main focus is for the garage area now, then the interior layout isn't critical for this exercise.

I do think you'll want a version of the program that does manual roofs to accomplish this. For now, set the garage to have "no roof above" and see what that does for the main house. Plus you're working with an almost 7 year old version of the software. To me, Suite is like trying to paint a watercolor with crayons.

What version and year of Home Designer are you using? Please fill out your signature so it will show in each post you make. A rule of thumb is to always draw your plan with the walls running north to south, and east to west. It will help with the framing, etc. without having to adjust to the weird angles. You can rotate your plot plan to fit the house location. You'll want to upgrade to Pro, as it allows for manual roofs

They could be ridge intersection markers, or temporary points. Check your display options under "roof", or delete temporary points

It's a shape, not a soffit

The shapes will not have a base molding option, while the soffit does. The open front to back box isn't "thick walled", so you'll need to do something to beef it up. See attached if that helps

To keep the crown, you could try a soffit for the top, with the "open front and back" box shape for the bottom. Put a "closed" shape on the sides and top to make it look "thicker"