scottharris

If the plan is too large to post, do you have a cloud you can copy to and post a link?   You can also send the file into our support group.

That's likely an automatic attic wall that is being generated due to an issue from the floor below.  You can turn it off.

There’s really not a good way to do that.  Someone could give you Chief Architect Premier plan, you could open it in Home Designer; but you cannot edit those items in Home Designer.  Maybe get your student license extended thru your school needs.

The electrical items are under the mechanical, electrical and plumbing category.  If you need more, like you post in your image, see the Chief Architect Premier library.   Chief Architect also includes schedules, like an electrical schedule.

Looks like a roof or ceiling plane that is cutting the surface maybe. Can you post the plan?

On the first floor, name the ‘garage’ room type and lower the floor ~24”.  For the patio room, consider using a ‘living’ room as well so it does not take on the foundation properties of a patio - if you want piers underneath.  When you build the foundation, consider building it on piers. 

Once you build the foundation, you will then need to manually adjust the automatic foundation to the one you want.  I posted the plan so you can reverse engineer it (Pro 2025).  Note the foundation is mostly manually created following the automatic build.

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Here's how the plan would look with the main floor and foundation.  I labeled the end walls that were set to Gable; hope this helps.

4 hours ago, CallTheCondor said:

are you saying to use the first floor as standard then set the foundation after?  

In most cases, you would always start with the main first floor.  Then, you build the foundation and other floors using the first floor as your design anchor point and its structural elements.

You might start with the first floor and foundation.  On the first floor, set your end walls to gables and the define the garage room type.  For the foundation, use the option ‘grade beams on piers’, it will ask about your garage setting, try something like 36” for the min. garage height.  You will then likely need to manually adjust the foundation to your specific needs.

Now build a 2^nd floor, adjust the living space to only be in the center of the structure.

Makes sense for the print screen cursor.  On recording video, there is no way to hide the cursor in Home Designer.  Have you tried using the program's 3D Walkthrough path tool to record the video?

Kristine, I often use a screen capture tool like you.  I first move my cursor to the side of the screen so it cannot be seen, then I press print screen to capture the Home Designer view w/o the cursor included.

Can you post your Home Designer plan?

Can you post your plan?

You might start with this knowledge article on a One and a Half Story Roof

https://www.homedesignersoftware.com/support/article/KB-00358/automatically-building-a-one-and-a-half-story-roof.html

You should be able to build this roof using Home Designer Architectural 2025. 

There is a bonus library of Materials Accent Wall Paneling  

I could not download your plan.  You might see if this story and half article helps - it involves building a 2nd floor.  Here’s an example:

A Gambrel roof can easily be created with Home Designer.  If you want to customize the framing rafters or trusses with any curve to it, you will find that Chief Architect Premier will be the best software to handle the complexities.  You can give our sales staff a call for further information.

You could use the 'remove surface' tool and expose the various layers.  It would need to be done from the standard 3D view (not framing 3D view)

In the deck wall, on the Rail Style panel, there is a 'post to beam' setting; and on the Rail panel the size of bean.  In addition, in the deck room itself, is the option to include/exclude a roof overhead.

You should be able to build that roof in Home Designer Pro; you might start with the automatic roof; then, if needed use the manual roof tools for specifics.

There’s probably not an easy way to do that in Home Designer Pro.  In Chief Architect Premier, you could use the curved ceiling tool; or a 3D solid for the barrel ceiling.

Here’s one way you could do this: 

-make a copy of your contours

-convert that copy to a ‘terrain curb’ and make them 1” square; these will follow the terrain

You can display door labels e.g., 3080 for a 36 x 80” door; then, use dimensions to add as you need.  Below are temporary dimensions when you click on a door they display.

Can you post the plan. And what version are you using?