Home Designer Suite Changelog

What's new in Home Designer Suite 2021 22.1.1.1

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.

New in Home Designer Suite 18.1.0.41 (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 Suite 17.3.2.2 (Dec 28, 2015)

  • Corrected a case in which a bad network connection would result in slow program launch.