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Or maybe your walls are not closed or have no room definition so that the roof is being built on top of the basement. If it's not one of these things, you should post the plan.

According to your picture, that's an interior door but not sure that matters in this case. You might want to check the rough opening settings and if that doesn't help you will probably need to post the plan.

As far as I know, you can't. The stair defaults are set to "automatic heights" and I can't find anyway to turn this off. Most of the time you shouldn't need to because the stair should just go from floor to floor and automatically adjust the riser height so that it works. Are you trying to do something special? You probably just need to turn off the jamb. If the door size "excludes" the jamb, and you have a jamb, the program will use the size of the jamb as the minimums for the rough opening.

You can use polyline subtraction if you want to cut out part of a roof plane. In the example above though, I would probably use the make parallel tool instead.

Yeah, I forgot that you could even change the opening indicators in the cabinet defaults. You must have turned them off at some time and forgot about it. As for the dashed lines for shelves, I don't think you can do this automatically or very easily. I know there have been posts in the past showing various workarounds so you might try a search. For me, I would probably just draw them in manually.

Yes, and no. You can't shape a cabinet any arbitrary shape you want like you can with the counter top. There are a number of things you can do that are built in and more with a few workarounds. If all you want is a triangle shape, you could use an "angled front" cabinet and then set one of the sides to 1/16".

You realize that those two statements contradict each other, right? You are using a new OS so the machines are definitely not the same and software might not work the same. Regardless, my guess is that you are having a video card, or more likely, a video card driver problem. I would bet that 99% of the crashes that people talk about here are video card related. First thing to try would be to update your video card drivers to the latest from the card manufacturer. If that doesn't make the problems go away, then check out this tech article: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00106/troubleshooting-3d-camera-view-display-problems-in-chief-architect.html If all else fails, then I would contact tech support.

White will look grey unless it has a lot of light shinning directly on it. If all you have is ceiling lights that are all pointed down, you are not going to see much definition. Try playing around with adding some more lights (using the add lights tool if you have it) or maybe even making the white material slightly emissive to make it look brighter. BTW, home designer has it's own forum here and other users might have other suggestions: https://hometalk.chiefarchitect.com/

You could create two schedules and use the room filter. This only works if you don't need to combine cabinets from multiple rooms. If you need multiple rooms, then you can create custom categories and filter the schedule by object categories. See if this tech article helps: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-03120/creating-custom-schedules.html

It would help to show a picture of what you are trying to model. You might be able to create a symbol that has both the balusters plus the wood slat and use that as either your baluster or panel symbol in the rail.

This is very doable in Premier but I think in Home Designer Architectural you are going to have to do a save as and just delete the stuff you don't want to show.

Go to page 0.

You can also use the "lock" to control how it rotates or moves when you make changes in the wall dialog. It does help to pay attention to the start and end though.

You should be able to use an angular dimension as well. You have to draw the angular dimension manually, then select the wall you want to rotate, and then click on the angle to change it. Works basically the same way that moving a wall by clicking on a normal dimension works.

You can set the wall angle to anything you want in the wall dialog. Personally, I would probably use the make parallel tool. Just click on the tool and click on the property line you want it to match. For a slab, or pretty much any poly object, you can also set the angle of any edge line in the dialog. If you are using the make parallel tool on a poly, you can click on the make parallel tool a second time to set whether or not the edge line or the whole poly rotates. This is one of Chief's best hidden features.

You could try using the window arch controls.

Yes, you can add electrical objects to soffits. So you could convert your vent into a wall mounted electrical object and then it would work. Not sure it's really worth the trouble though because if your vent is just a fixture you should be able to just place it in the plan and bump it against the soffit.

I like to use png files because they are not "lossy" like jpg files. Depending on what you want to do with the picture, such as put it on a web site or print it out as a poster, you may want to make it much larger than the current screen size. Keep in mind that if you make it much larger than the screen that it will take a lot longer to generate and be a much larger file.

You can go into your preferences and see if you accidently turned off the status bar.

Yeah, you gave up too soon. You need to drag it way past the corner and then you will see it snap and stay in the corner. BTW, this is how it works for making corner windows too. People drag the window to the corner and stop dragging when they see it stop but you need to keep going.

So I could get them pretty close but got tired of trying to get them perfect. Here are some things that I noticed: - I made sure the deck railing settings were the same as the ramp railing settings (where I cared which is why I didn't change materials or balusters). - I horizontally offset the whole railing, not the newels or rails, by -2" - I dropped the bottom of the newel posts by 6" - getting the ramp to line up with the deck railings is a bit of a pain. In your picture, it looks like your ramps are overlapping your decks which is probably going to cause problems. - getting the "doorways" where the ramps meet the decks is even more of a pain. In order to get them wide enough, you need to drag the openings much wider until it snaps into the corner and every time you touch the ramp it resets them. You could also turn off the rail on these sides but I had more problems with the newel posts when I did that. Overall, I think this is much, much easier if you just use ramps with landings instead of decks. You won't get realistic looking planks and joists but you won't get them with the ramps anyways.

It should be listed under your "available columns" so you should be able to click on it and then click on the "add =>" button for it to show up under "columns to include".

You could always add the thickness column to your schedule.

It's probably a video card or driver issue. You should check out this tech article about "device removed" errors: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00106/troubleshooting-3d-camera-view-display-problems-in-chief-architect.html

1. try going to your preferences and set your minimum display size for dimensions to 0 pixels. If you are using the system defaults, I think they are set to something like 8 pixels which means your dimensions will always be at least 8 pixels high regardless of how far you zoom out.