Rookie65

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  1. Depending on which version of Home Designer you have, you should be able to. Yet keep in mind that when you Auto rebuild the foundation, whatever you have drawn in the basement will disappear. If you're only going to make minimal possible changes to the main floor, just align the basement wall to the revised main floor wall manually with the align wall tool.

  2. Floor 1 is supposed to be at 0". Your basement is below grade, so its floor level would be a negative number. Read the reference manual for a better understanding 

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  3. Just draw the plan once with no basement finish. Then copy the plan, keep just the basement level and finish to your hearts content. Submit it when the time comes. It will be much easier than anything else you're trying to come up with. You could have drawn it in the 2 days since you first asked about it. 

  4. Something else to think about is that, depending on where you live, if you submit a plan with the finished basement on it, and don't do it in the first build, your occupancy permit may be delayed until it's done. Some locales won't issue the final sign off if the project is not built with everything done that was submitted. So I would keep your finished basement to submit when you are ready to do it and get a separate permit for it.

  5. You'll probably have to do it as 2 separate plans. Depending on where you are in the design, keep one with the finished basement, then do the other with all of the house notes and info on it.