What's new in Home Designer Pro 2021 22.1.1
Mar 9, 2020
- Auto‐Hide Exterior Walls While Navigating. Set navigation camera views to automatically hide the backs of walls that prevent seeing into a small room. Use the Hide Camera‐Facing Exterior walls tools to easily navigate small rooms.
- Print to any Paper Size. Set up your prints and PDF to work with your favorite paper size.
- Find in Library. Determine whether or not a selected object exists in the library browser using an edit tool, or through the Replace from Library dialog.
- Stairs and Ramps. Draw stairs or ramps in designs and modify length, raisers, treads, and style of stairs. See stair preview in dialog to preview your modifications.
- One‐ClickTM Stairs & Ramps. Auto place stairs from platform to platform. Place full length stairs with a single click. Stairs and Ramps automatically connect to the terrain when drawn from the ground to the structure.
- Ramp Tool. Default Ramp is ADA compliant. Specify length, slope rise and run for non‐traditional ramps such as skateboard ramps.
- Split landings into multiple segments using dialog box controls for U‐shape and L‐shape stairs.
- Railing Widths. Use Wall Width for Railings controls automatically sets the width of rails to match wall width. Makes it easy to set up deck guard rails based on wall construction material sizes.
- Find and Replace Text in Plan. Quickly search for and replace words or strings of text used in your project for the currently selected text.
- Create Elevation, Wall Elevation, and Cross Section Views for the interior and exterior of your design.
- Waterfall Counters. Automatically specify the edge of a custom counter as “Waterfall” to create a solid section from the counter’s top to the floor.
- Customize Door Glass. Independently set the top, bottom, left, and right sides for panel and glass panel doors. Create garage and entry doors with asymmetric windows. Choose to set all garage door panels to use glass.
- Manual Roof Tools. Control pivot point for individual roof planes.
- Object Componenets. Find the components panel in the specification dialog for objects that are reported to the materials list. Adjust calculation methods and other details for the object from the Components panel.
New in Home Designer Pro 2019 (Mar 12, 2018)
- Productivity Features:
- 3D Viewer Export. Save designs to the cloud and share them for using on mobile devices and websites using the Chief Architect 3D Viewer App.
- Library Search Bar and Context Menus. Quickly search for library items by keyword, object type, or style. Choose to search for items in an entire catalog or in specific folders only. Customize search attributes for User Catalog content.
- Find in Plan from the Materials List. Select items from the materials list and choose to Show in Plan to identify and locate them in your designs.
- 3D Tools:
- Save 360° Renderings to the Cloud. Easily save your 360° renderings to the Chief Architect Cloud, and share them or embed them into web pages.
- Multiple Camera Defaults. Specify default values for each camera type; control, layer assignment, active Rendering Technique, and more.
- Group Select and Edit Cameras. Select multiple cameras at one time and edit their properties, like height off floor or the Rendering Technique used.
- Plan Features:
- Custom Watermarks. Create watermarks and display them on your work. Control location, size, angle, transparency, and include images in your watermark design.
- Automatic Dutch Gable Roofs. Easily create a Dutch Gable style roof using the Automatic Build Roof tools; simply set the wall properties as “Dutch Gable”, adjust the values and build the roof.
- Multiple Framing Types. Choose from a wide selection of framing types when designing your structure; from lumber to steel, to engineered materials like LVL, PSL, and VSL. Framing labels reflect the type of material specified.
- Access to Full Selection of 3,600+ Plant Images.
- General:
- Rotate Symbols in 3D. In 3D views easily rotate symbol objects around the X, Y, or Z axis using the rotate edit handles for the selected side. Choose to automatically refresh the CAD Block for symbol objects as they are rotated or modified.
- Insert Items Inside Cabinets. Attach custom shelves, storage, and hardware items into cabinet boxes and specify their behavior per face item.
- Specify Number of Lights Used per Scene. Choose to display more than 8 light sources in your 3D views. Set the maximum number of lights used in the Camera Specification dialog.
- Editing Tools:
- Stretch CAD Tool. Similar to Edit Area; create a marquee that contains or excludes CAD endpoints and move the selection to stretch and scale the components within the selection area.
- Selected Edge Highlight Indicator. See visual cues to identify the active edge of a selected object with highlight colors along the edge and filled edit handles.
- Reshape Views Sent to Layout. Like other Polyline based items, add breaks and curved edges to Layout viewports to control cropping of their display on a layout page.
- Railing Over Solid Wall. Generate Pony Walls with a railing as the upper wall type.
- Turn off Posts for Railings. Easily specify whether railings or fences include posts with the “No Posts” control.
New in Home Designer Pro 2018 19.3.1.7 (Aug 8, 2017)
- Editing Objects:
- Cross Section/Elevation cameras can no longer be copied or reflected using the Edit Area tools.
- Fixed a problem that prevented Overview cameras from rotating correctly when Edit Area All Floors was used.
- Foundations:
- Fixed a problem that could cause dimensions locating foundation wall cutouts to disappear.
- Materials Lists:
- Fixed a problem that prevented the Master List from being saved in some cases in the Mac version of the software.
New in Home Designer Pro 2017 18.3.2.2 (Aug 8, 2017)
- Editing Objects:
- Fixed a crash that occurred on some systems running macOS Sierra.
- Walls, Railings, and Fencing:
- Fixed a problem that caused the program to hang when editing walls in some plans.
New in Home Designer Pro 2017 18.3.1.2 (Oct 14, 2016)
- Preferences and Defaults:
- Fixed a crash that occurred when multiple items in the Default Settings dialog were double‐clicked while pressing the CTRL key.
- Walls, Railings, and Fencing:
- Fixed a crash that could occur in some plans with complex wall intersections that involved Room Dividers.
- Fixed a problem that affected the orientation of Panels in fences in floor plan view.
- Importing and Exporting:
- Fixed an issue that prevented users from logging into their online Chief Architect
- Account when their password contained extended characters.
New in Home Designer Pro 2017 18.1.1.4 (Mar 24, 2016)
- Roofs:
- Fixed an issue that caused the attic walls in gable Auto Dormers to extend down too far in a specific case.
- Importing and Exporting:
- Fixed a problem that caused dimension extensions to be excluded from drawings exported to .dxf files from layout.
- Layout:
- Fixed a problem that caused Perspective Views sent to layout as Live Views to shift and skew when printed.
- Printing and Plotting:
- Fixed an issue that caused the backdrop image in a 3D view to display incorrectly when printed from layout.
- Materials List:
- Fixed an issue that sometimes caused the data in the Components dialog to not match the data shown in object schedules.
New in Home Designer Pro 2016 17.3.2.2 (Dec 23, 2015)
- Corrected a case in which a bad network connection would result in slow program launch.