I don't know why ...

but I feel compelled to mention how the "solution" to my most recent problem with Home Designer Pro worked out. Here is an image of the "artifacts".

Last night I finally got the chance to work on the design, so I set about removing all the wall columns I'd placed in the design. Of course, that was not the solution to the window frame artifacts. Not completely, anyway. Two things seemed to be at fault:

1. Windows mulled together at wall corners is a "problem", and I had done that (well, it's supposed to work).


2. "Faulty" window objects that needed to be deleted, and new windows added.

I futzed with the plan for a couple of hours, methodically trying various things (mostly unsuccessfully) until finally all the artifacts were removed. Now I'm tempted to put wall columns back in again, and see what happens. When I removed them I replaced the columns with rectangular "geometric shapes" that were easily be made into brick. At the tops of these columns, which met my roofs at angles, I had to put in smaller pieces of shapes to fill the diagonal under the roof eave. I know it's impossible to visualize what I mean without a picture, but ... suffice it to say, walls automatically cut themselves off at the roof, no matter what the angle, so if you use walls you don't have to worry about how they join to the roof. With other shapes, you have to manually make them fit. PITA.

Doing away with windows extending into the corners of the walls was no great loss, but it makes the house seem slightly more massive and less open and airy. Perhaps I will post images so you can see what I mean. That is, if I remember it when I'm at home. Of course, I'm not at home now. Us corporate wage-slaves don't get that luxury. We have to fight in traffic every morning (and every afternoon) just to have our private enjoyments in relative peace and comfort.

That's enough of that. And this is enough of this.

Click here for an image of this house design.