melissastar

Hi. First, thanks to all who helped me yesterday in figuring out that I'm not crazy. The directions in the tutorials/ info don't, in fact, match up with the Interiors product. I'm making some progress, though, now I have two specific problems/questions. First, I'm reconfiguring the entire interior of a house/apartment that will be built over the next few months/year. The exterior walls on the plan are fixed. They cannot be changed, and I'm having the devil of a time figuring out how to work with the Interiors product to do this. The walls are exactly 25 cm. thick,. I can get approximately the right measurements, but can't nail it. I think part of difficulty might be that I can't seem to set a default for walls on Interiors that works for this particular case and I can't use some mid-line measurement (which I don't have) but must draw from the outside measurement of the walls. Second problem: Why does the corner sofa I have placed with the corner in the northwest corner of a room on the 2D plan suddenly flip to be floating in the middle of the room , with the corner in the southeast, when I look in dollhouse view? I can correct it in dollhouse view, but then it's flipped to be wrong on the 2-D plan. Explanations? Fixes? Thanks!

Thanks, all. I'm doing a bit better now. The main difficulty seems to be that the online tutorials, videos etc. appear to all be geared to the more expensive, sophisticated products. So I try what they say to do, and it doesn't work for me. And then I can't find any information about what the work around is for the cheaper, more basic Interiors product. But that's really all I need...can't justify spending a lot more just to help me plan my new house! Right now, I've got two specific problems, but I'll post a separate question on them. Again, thanks for your help.

Well, that's already a giant help! For one thing, yes, I can see the temporary dimensions....when I looked at the bottom of the screen. I was looking for them next to the wall being drawn, because that's where the tutorial shows you they are! And I thought the interiors product said you could customize wall defaults too, but perhaps I didn't read carefully enough. I do need to be careful about dimensions, as the project I am working on has the footprint already set in stone. I can only modify the interior and exterior doors, windows, etc. Thanks!

Please help me. I just bought the interiors product. I'm not a professional, but an avid DIYer with experience in a variety of computer programs, but not CAD programs. This one is making me feel like an idiot. I suspect (hope?) that this is largely because the interiors product does not offer the same options and sophistication that the pro and other programs, which the online videos and other training materials are geared to. Could that be the case? Two examples, right at the beginning: I'm trying to set defaults for my first project...walls, to start. The only options I seem to have are to pick one of the preset styles offered....brick thin, stucco thick, etc. I can find no way to modify them to suit the walls that I need to match the project I'm working on. What's worse, it's pure guess work which of the presets might come close. Am I missing something? Being totally stupid? There is no "edit" choice to select anything else. All I can apparently do is pick a preset and then select and reset the wall thickness for each individual wall. Second right-off-the-bat example: When I draw my initial walls...there is no temporary measurement offered. It's pure guesswork, then go in to to edit the object to the right size. Surely this can't be the case? I'm more than willing to concede that I AM an idiot, if only someone will tell me what it is I'm missing to get started correctly. PLEASE!!! Melissa