Jo_Ann

ICONDEV, There is so MUCH that you can do to improve your 3d viewing. Examples: The deck fireplace. The board & batten barn siding. The interior fireplace...instead of saying corner fireplace/no hearth/beam mantle, make your own fireplace from scratch. Start experimenting!

Eric, That is a really good tip, and works better. ICONDEV, right click the wall section and select 'reverse layers'.

After placing the wall breaks: Highlight the section, zoom in, and slightly off-set the section from the rest of the rail. Then apply the changes.

You should have started a new topic of your own for your question about the roof. The east exterior wall of the house is set as high shed/gable. Uncheck that. The north exterior wall of the house is also set as high shed/gable. Uncheck that and put a check in "gable". Your 2 closets next to the north house wall (in the kitchen) are causing the problem. Raise their ceiling heights to match the kitchen. When you are certain that you will no longer need to rebuild the roof, turn off "auto build roof" and reset the desired ceiling heights in both closets.

You have TERRAIN in your garage. Your terrain has been built on floor 2. Delete it, and rebuild on floor 1. Open the terrain dbx, uncheck "automatic" and set the height to 26". In the garage, draw a room divider wall, aligned with the exterior wall on the 2nd floor. Open the front part of the garage "room", and lower the finished ceiling to 115 5/8". After the roof is correct (and never needing to rebuild again), you can delete the invisible wall. Sorry DJP.

If you are very careful about wall placement, you will still have room for a pickup truck on that side garage of the garage, and also a boot-bench inside the entry.

I'm sure you are probably cringing at the thought of losing space in the guest bedroom, but.... this compromise doesn't lose much, and it is a better scenario.

I have to say it.... Your bathroom door opens into the kitchen/dining area. YIKES.

Good solution Eric! It will be necessary for him to delete the auto dormer and manually build the dormer.

Porch roof baseline set at 119.5". Porch roof ridge height set at 154.5". You will have to move the dormer back about 2.5' and change the windows to 36" height, 36" from the floor.

If you lower the baseline of the porch roof, you can get a 3" pitch.

If you are manually doing the porch roof, the highest pitch I could get was 1.5", because of the dormer position. The pergola certainly eliminates snow load worries!

You are right about the dormer position affecting the pitch of the porch roof. To get this porch roof effect, the south wall of the porch needs to have an upper/lower pitch setting on the roof tab (auto roof build). You will most likely need to alter the porch ceiling height, as well. Or, you could skip the solid roof and do a pergola.

Knowledge base article https://www.homedesignersoftware.com/support/article/KB-00063/placing-multiple-appliances-in-a-single-cabinet-in-home-designer-pro.html

As Eric said, YOU control the size of the custom countertop. First, remove the side countertop overhang on the cabinet. Draw a custom countertop. Select it and zoom in to see the width, then select the width numbers, and change them to your desired size. Then move the countertop tight to the cabinet, and block it. You can select either the cabinet or the custom countertop at any time (without unblocking it) by hitting the 'tab' key. You only need to add the custom countertop to the side of the cabinet, NOT the entire cabinet.

For the interior wall/ceiling curl, a well placed 'rustic' corbel, sized correctly and then stretched, will simulate the 'curl'. I would only use it where it needs to be visible in the interior 3d view.

I see that you have removed the countertop from the corner cabinet. You need to reduce the height of that cabinet to compensate for the removed countertop, THEN add the custom countertop.

If you reduce the first 2 steps to 1 step, the rest of the stairs will adjust, and the riser height is still good. The new landing height will accommodate a tall person without bumping their head. Also...you can eliminate those pesky yellow triangle warnings if you open the angled wall dbx, and delete the fractional amount on the wall angle.

You seem to be asking 2 questions: #1. SHOW the reference grid on the desktop. Look on the top toolbar under 'VIEW'. "Show Reference Grid' will most likely be there. Turn it on. #2. PRINT the desktop image showing the reference grid. If you have windows 'snippet' tool, use THAT to frame the part of the view that you want to see. It crops and saves the image in one step.

Ditto what Eric said, but a little more detailed.

DJP. LOL!

If your version of the software doesn't have the options tab, place 2 identical doors, side by side. Hold down Ctrl, and drag them together until a center post is no longer visible.

You might also want to reconsider your stairs. A u-type stair is less invasive to the upstairs planned room, and it is a safer type of stairs.