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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. 

Click on them to see what they are. They could be in reference to some framing directions.

Yes. look at your siding materials

While not a licensed architect, I do use HD Pro for my design business. Luckily, I still have HDP 2025, which I plan to still use for my plans. I bought the 2026 version thinking it would be a step up, as the other "updates" would usually be. Well, I was sorely mistaken once I realized how many features were deleted, messed up, or changed. It was a lesson that I don't plan on making next year, unless they can fix the issues that were created in this 2026 version. I guess time will tell

Make the box transparent. Maybe spend some time going over the reference manual

The line above looks like the roof overhang. You can rename any room to what you want by going to the dbx, at the room name, leave the upper name so it defaults, then on the second lane, change it to what you want it to be

If you set it in your defaults before you start adding windows, it'll happen with them all

You can go into the DBX for the windows under labels & hit the "enter" key a time or two to move the label to sit below the window. It may work for the doors too. You can always click on the door or window and move the text with the small dot in the center of the call out too

I think one of the many drawbacks to HD 2026 is that the material editing properties have been taken away. If you go to the material, copy it to make a new one and rename it, see if you can edit the angle of it. Change it from 0 to 90, or the opposite. If it's greyed out, you can't.

However, if you applied this as a soffit, and not a moulding, the pattern may be fine.

What version are you using?

Yes, there was one. The one in question looks like it has a "V" in it, which is why I suggested there was a vector view camera active somewhere in the plan. Possibly saved from when a view was sent to layout page or something. Posting the plan often helps more than playing guessing games. Anyway, good luck with it