

I've moved from a similarly priced product that had great function in this area (like all competing software, there are pluses and minuses) so I may have to go back to that older product until I get a final design, then come back to HD. (In case my signature doesn't show up properly, I'm on HD Suite 2018.) To be specific, I'm trying to design a solid timber house so I need exterior walls that are 100mm with a timber appearance inside and out, plus interior 60mm walls of solid timber. I'm new to the program so I may simply be misunderstanding something so any help would be appreciated.

I tried adding walls to the an file (just as if I'm designing a house) then altering the properties but that doesn't seem to change the default definition so using that altered template doesn't help. I tried to find use of template files in the help and reference manual but there doesn't appear to be anything about changing the wall type definitions to save them in the template.

I can select siding-thin from Edit>Default Settings>Walls>Edit but can't define the width and materials). With the wall defaults dialog there is no way to further define the chosen default (e.g. I'm fiddling with new designs all the time, at the moment and am getting tired of altering wall width and materials (though the materials are properly set for some walls I add and I understand why). I found this forum topic whilst searching for a way to define a new wall type or alter an existing one.
