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Use a terrain hole around the foundation wall around the stairs

The pictures do nothing. Try posting your plan and maybe someone will look at it.

Wall Specification>General>Options It also looks like your walls are not aligned with the walls below? Spend some time with the reference manual

Looks like the room is not defined? Make sure all of the perimeter walls are not marked as "no room definition" and "no locate"

I typically adjust the thickness of the post/beam to what it will be with the wrap, then change the material to what it needs to be showing.

Click on the 3 dots in the top right of the post, and delete should be there as an option.

If you're using Chief X17, stay on the Chief forum, as the 2 programs are different, and there will be different options available. You can just delete this post to eliminate confusion.

It's the same for any of the Home Designer versions. You mentioned 24 in your post

Not in the Home Designer product. You'll need to upgrade to Chief Architect for layers. This discussion has come up many times. I always just draw an as built plan, then copy it to make the changes for the remodel

You have "color" turned off in your 1st screen shot, and "on" in the 2nd. Look at the little house image in the right side tool bar.

As I mentioned earlier, these are joist direction lines causing the errors. If you drag your cursor over one of the warnings, there will be a comment showing what it is. Make your "bearing lines" visible, then you can delete them. Very simple.

What it means is that you should keep whatever version you have been using. Any update available now is only to home designer 26.

Try posting the plan

If you click on them, it'll tell you what the issue is. Often it's a framing thing, and if you display "bearing lines", you may see them to delete. Yes, I have been fortunate to have a good design business going. I have a great group of clients who keep me busy steadily.

It's gone in 2026. One of many disappointments with the new version.