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you can always use railing to define an exterior PORCH "ROOM". SO add in railing walls to define a porch space that lines up with existing exterior walls. Then you need to edit this railing wall by drawing and then clicking OPEN to EDIT. GO to RAILING TAB Set Railing to OPEN set NEWEL/POSTS to be POST TO BEAM Set START & END posts how you want them for each porch "wall" so against house you may want NO POST or HALF or FULL your choice. Next to the NEWEL/BALUSTERS tab here you pick your COLUMN and set Dims in plan view, offset from Wall & spacing max NEXT to RAILS tab Here you can set dims of beam and its offset. Then if you enclose the space with these walls attached to house exterior walls you created a new room. OPEN room and set floor height and roof type etc. Then roof should be fine if you auto rebuild. TIP: When drawing set wall type to be whatever your external wall is - it will not use this wall but in plan view it uses it so you can ensure you line up the FAKE studs with your normal cabin external walls so the roof draws properly since roofs are done from the "MAIN LAYER" outer edge of upper most top plate outer corner. so you want them to be colinear and same height. PLAY with it and practice and it will come to you once you see what changing something in those EDIT screens does. I find railing pretty powerful since you can make solid panels for glass walls in showers that do not go to ceiling etc.

Did not think you were allowed to move stuff while in layout which is a drawing on titleblock.

but if against the wall then it does not overhange. just like it does not overhang on the side when 2 or more cabinets screwed together. Only overhangs when it can into open space.

they have manual dims.. in 2024.. I always use it to locate items in plan. what you want is AUTO dims turned off in the display list

PRo Version has what you need. Check this page out which compares versions Home Designer | Home Design Software for DIY (homedesignersoftware.com)

Take a picture of what you want in real world. Then insert to plan. Maybe edit picture in photoshop to cut around branches and such Also check out 3d warehouse: 3D Warehouse (sketchup.com) PLenty of posts on here on how to get something and convert it to HD - I forget off hand as It just comes to me when I do it. Probably other sites too.

I have not done one but I cannot see it being difficult you need to set exterior wall default to be your CMU type. I have seen some before in the wall types available in various templates. Then I would open the edit screen for the wall and make sure wall layers are as you like. Maybe like: Interior to exterior: 1/2" sheetrock 2x4 wood stud 1" this spray foam to create thermal break. 8" thick CMU ??? After CMU depends on what you wanna do I could see maybe stucco?

I think on some panels if you open them up, they have placement dims. You need to look at DISTANCE from WALL and play with it to get your desired look. Seems the panels I use like to go into walls, and they are mounted on exterior outdoors on my brick.

Crap thought of another way while I played with my plans. Draw first floor with 10ft ceilings. Then add second floor but with Ceiling height that gives you your 14ft studs. Make sure balloon framing is checked everywhere (might be best to see if it is in Defaults)

one option that might work - I have not tried Set first floor rooms to have the same ceiling height which would be with the 14ft studs (where do you find these by the way? 12' is max board lengh around here) Absolute Ceiling Height = single bottom plate + double top plate + 14ft stud = 14'-4.5" ceiling. Then make sure THIS ROOM HAS FLAT CEILING is UNCHECKED. Then draw in a manual ceiling plane at 10' height (which is under joists) Define ceiling joists etc etc and you will get what you want I think. But if not I bet maybe tweaking a few things from what I wrote would get you what you want. Good luck

With new plan materials are imported from the defaults associated with the template file you chose.

Maybe go to your plan's material list and open the edit screen for each separately and compare the texture screens as tha is what defines how a material looks in standard views. Not sure where the physical views come from. See if they are different, are they using the same picture file? Edit to your liking.

Can you show us the TAB for STRUCTURE Where all that good stuff is defined. ALso what type of foundation do you have since this is a garage.

did you check if you computer and graphics comply with min system? Have enough memory? If I Was you, I would call Home Designer peeps

I Set them at 0 since I have the cabinets up against the wall and there is no room for an overhang. IF the back is exposed and out in open it would depend. but 1" is pretty much the standard overhang around where live. Now is there seating? like an island or peninsula? Then knee space rules dictate how much it should be and that is governed by height. See this - and peeps need to read it and follow it else you can get a goofy kitchen you end up hating: Basically, a free version of important rules to follow from Better Homes and Garden: Fundamental Kitchen Design Guidelines to Know Before You Remodel (bhg.com) And then the rule body National Kitchen & Bath Association: NKBA

ONe trick is to insert a FLAT ceiling plane in those rooms you want at the desired lower height This should hold the roof flat and one height while also giving you the lower ceiling height. Might want to turn off THIS ROOM HAS FLAT CEILING to open it up to attic above this new ceiling plane. I am sure there is another way by setting the each room's ceiling height that is not DEFAULT to whatever you want and then there are some controls to raise wall heights to make roof soffit/fascia all one height - But I have not done that so I am no help with what to click on this method other then check your HELP screens

are you sure it is not a shadow? to find out color of jambs a little trick I picked up is click on the Eye dropper thing next to the spray paint can on main tool bar. Put the tip on the item you are interested in and then look down at bottom of screen it tells you the color you are hovering over.

SO layered Dimensions. one for each plan sheet That would be cool

have you looked at the option page for the wall specification? STRUCTURE TAB FRAMING SECTION - At bottom Then hit HELP and it will explain it all. See screen shot.

What gives with stairs? your picture does not show stairs but my guess is the underside of roof?

well you could always go into the defaults settings and start changing them to what you want from the other templates. See the "style" is just a pre-set for the defaults - sets cabinet door& drawer type, flooring, wall colors, exterior wall siding, fixture color etc. Once you start and choose one of HD style that plans defaults get set and you are stuck with it unless you make changes to defaults.

only thing I will say is when they are blocks for some reason it becomes a PIA to locate things using dimensions as you lose all the snap points and for some reason it sometimes changes the dimensions. Example you have cabinet that is 24wide and 1 " countertop overhand on sides. so width should be 24+2 = 26" Well make it block and then click so it shows temp dim of width and it will put all sorts of crazy things but hardly ever the 26" you expect. I have seen where you get the ~ in front denoting it is not a true number exact to 1/16" so it thinks this 26" cabinet is now say 26.04"

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Crap I remember how to do this. Click on cabinet and turn it into an architectural BLOCK and then fillers go away. This is how I make bookcases - use a full height and open front w/shelves, dimensions and molding etc to my liking and then turn it into block. Bammmmmmm now it acts like piece of furniture except you cannot modify it anymore unless you explode it and tweak it and then block it again. Try it!

I do not think there is a way in the Home Designer series but I bet the Full CA versions does. If you look at help it calls it CABINET FILLERS and tells you how they are automatically created between cab and wall and or cabinet within 3" Can I ask why you would want this gap on each side? My wife would scream bloody murder about the dirt and dust bunnies back in this gap she cannot clean out and would demand it be sealed off.