Importing plans

[sticksandstones]

Hello Everyone:

I am new to this software and am trying to build a set of plans for a project we will be working on as soon as the weather brakes, the problem I have is the engineer has produced some design drawings which have columns since the house is in a flood plain area and I would like to import them and use his design as much as possible before adding to it to produce a set of plans for the job. I admit, a lot to tackle for a HDP newby but I want to try.
I can import his drawings into HDP but the columns don't show up in camera view what can I do to use his plans without
redrawing everything.

thanks

[David J. Potter]

Welcome to the Forum!

Important posts/threads you should read:

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Need to know what title/version you have exactly. Imports are 2-D and used mainly for tracing over, what have you actually done so far and using what please?

DJP

[sticksandstones]

Hello David:

I am using Home Designer Pro 2014 and importing DXF files from the engineers CAD program. I imported his three drawings
C3 foundation drawings ( Columns and foundation walls), C2 Floor Plan Drawings (Steel I beams on columns) and C1 floor Plan layout for 1st and 2nd floor. If I could use them in a semi transparent layer I believe I could then draw in all walls etc , but being new to this software is like being new to anything, Frustrating until you catch on.

[David J. Potter]

piers and columns are easily represented using "Shapes" from the library browser, using walls to emulate them is unnecessarily hard to do. Please take a look at dome of these Help Database articles:

http://www.homedesignersoftware.com/...put=xml_no_dtd

DJP

[Lamina]

this article may help too - http://www.homedesignersoftware.com/...?faqNumber=752