Jo_Ann

jmr117, That is not a very attractive design. I would consult another architect.

Put a wall break where shown on the 2nd floor.. Change the short wall to a hip wall.

I would worry less about the safety of 3 short steps (with a hand rail) out the door, than all those steps to get to the ground level. The upper landing and the mid-landing are closer to the ground. This means fewer steps, and shorter support posts (less cost) and more safety.

Food for thought.

If you are planning to do in reality, what I think you are wanting to show in the software, then I hope that you have extremely good liability insurance.

Is this what you want to see in the 3d framing view?

Not sure what you are doing when looking at the core content library, but I think the core content is the same for Suite, Architectural, and Pro. When I look under Architectural > Exteriors > Vehicles....I see a variety of generic cars, pick-ups, and suvs.

What you are wanting to create is called a half-hip gable roof (look in your user guide). The auto-build roof settings are very tricky and confusing for this style roof. This mock-up was done using auto build roof. I think that you will keep more of your hair, if you learn how to use the manual roof tools.

A challenge to experiment with. I found the pony wall /w rail method easiest to use. After following Eric's instruction to place the wall, then break the wall . Open the upper pony wall and set the baluster/newel tab railing height to 2". This eliminates the unwanted upper rail. You will still have missing balusters below the ceiling. Get the matching balusters from the library, and manually place and size them (there should only be 4 or 5 to place).

It sounds like your graphic/video card is not up to the task. You might get lucky and only need to update the card's driver.

There is no need to recreate the wall. Open the plan where the wall exists. Copy/paste the wall into the new plan. When the new plan is saved, then opened, the new wall will be there in the drop-down wall list. You can save it this easy way if you create a template plan, too. I have saved a lot of wall types this way ( that I want to have available in the wall drop-down list) without having to recreate them.

The same house plan was posted here: and here: Hopefully an easy one?

You haven't provided nearly enough info for anyone to help with your house plan. If this is an existing house, a few pics would help. Usually you begin with the correct roof settings on the walls, and allow the roof to "auto rebuild". Then you can tidy things up using manual roof tools to finish.

Sounds like it is the terrain "Sub-Floor Height Above Terrain" that you need to set...NOT the floor "C" height. Floor "C" should remain at "0", for the main structure.

In your Reference Manual index, look for "Rooms>Interior area".

We are just users, like yourself, and have nothing to do with the Chief Architect developers. Build the slab wall with a footer, and it will cause no problems. It's easy to do. Because your basement slab is at ground level at the rear of the house, it might require a stem wall/footer that extends below the frost line. This is why I showed the slab wall extended below the poured slab basement floor in the image I posted. Like I said, it IS what it is.

That is strange. It builds in Pro 2020, but NOT in Pro 2019. The square tower on level 5 with no roof, is causing the problem. Delete level 5, and the roof builds. Go down to level 4, and raise the ceiling in the tower, and the roof will not build completely, again. Although Pro 2019 allows 5 floors, could there be a height limit???

What is error code 200? Did you decorate inside the structure and the file is too large to post? If you would post a jpeg of the floor plan, maybe someone could replicate it. You also should fill out your signature. Rookie65: Pro 2019 does allow 5 floors.

You were looking at a Chief Architect Premier video, and like Eric said, you can't assign objects to a layer of your choice in Home Designer (which was done in the Chief video). Keep it simple. As Eric said, you have to redraw the wall as an exterior 6 wall. This way it is no longer considered to be a "foundation wall", so now the framing will show (wall on the right). Sometimes the framed wall does not extend to the floor, but is built on a raised foundation wall. The wall on the left is a pony wall, which allows the height of the top framed wall to change. In a framing view, the foundation walls do not show below these non-foundation walls. So place a slab with footing, (sized and positioned correctly) to physically show a foundation wall below the bottom plate of each framed wall. In the images for example, a slab wall was placed left and right, but not placed in the middle (below the doorway). With experience, practice, and experimenting, you will learn how to improvise to get what you want. The program just doesn't do everything automatically. It is, what it is.

Yes, it is possible. You just need a lot of practice learning how to use Pro and manual roof tools. And don't assume an entire ceiling within a room is 10', when some of it might be partially sloped, and then become a 10' flat ceiling (this can affect the way the roof sits). The floor plan drawings don't really reveal everything. Practice Obi Wan, practice...(and the reference manual).

Although the directions in that tutorial are the same as in the Home Designer Knowledge base, you should NOT be looking at Chief Premier tutorials. You have a Home Designer product, so you should only be looking at tutorials for Home Designer. Even so, I gave you the answer about what needs to change.

You said salt box roof on the 2nd floor. Is this what you want? I think this has a lot to do with the "in from baseline" setting on the 1st floor hip wall's upper/lower pitch , and also the placement of the 2nd floor knee wall. In this pic, the knee wall is 5' in height.

Then your "alcove" is really a porch (room).

??? I don't see a 2nd floor .

Even if the alcove is not set as a room, I get this result by setting the minimum alcove size larger that the alcove width. I have no idea what you did to get that result.