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Thanks, I checked already though. There was nothing useful. There was something from 24th and something from the 26..nothing from the 25th. I opened each to make sure and the rotation wasn’t in either of them. I just restarted from where I began on the 24th, deleted the 2nd floor, used edit area selecting everything and rotated. I’m double checking the all the measurements on the 1st floor before building the 2nd floor this time. There was something off in the area of the stair well.

If you didn't save your plan, check your archive folder, as the program will auto save projects at certain time intervals. It should have something there.

try ceiling beams next time. Insert one then select and open edit window and hit HELP. tons of info and more suited to what you are doing.

Thanks @Garybills!! Very simple to do. I copied the beam, then went to the 2nd floor and hit Edit/Paste/Paste Hold Position. I then had to change the height from the floor (2nd floor). In case anyone else needs to know. Thanks again Gary! Allen

If you built the soffit on the first floor, try building it on the second floor.

The house is coming along just fine, but I would like to fix the issue in HD. Allen

It is soffit. I have 2 of them in the living area. The other beam is fine so I assume its the stairs causing the issue (not sure if I'm correct).Not sure about what type "element" it is. BTW, this is Home Designer Pro '22. Thanks. Allen

how did you make beam? what type of element is it? Ceiling beam or a soffit or a 3d object or ??

How do I make the beam display above the stairs? Probably simple, but I can't seem to get it. Thanks in Advance... Allen

Well... YIKES!!

I’m not sure how much help a picture from the front will be….

Keith’s suggestion worked. There are plenty of other roof parts that still need tinkering after I get the main room to be a room again but I’ll tinker at it on my own unless/until I get stuck again. I know I’m going to need help figuring out how to put roof over no walls but I’ll start a new thread for that.

You are doing much better! A pic of the front of the real house, would help us to see what the roof is supposed to look like.

I just drew a new wall over it. Now I need to figure out how to make the main part of my first floor a room again. I’m getting there. Thank you for your help. Much appreciated!

It's ok. Spend some time reading the reference manual for more help

I've gotten pretty close to getting the 2nd floor edited back together after turning off object snaps and moving the section that didn't rotate one way and then another. I had to delete the (I guess now west) wall of the bedroom for it to let me slide the rooms into the right spot but now I get a warning if I try to pull the auto generated wall to replace the deleted wall.

They're most likely gable walls, which are correct

Keith, thank you! I could swear that there was a pre-existing break in that wall and I had tried that before but.... I copied the plan file without closing or saving the open version I had been experimenting on most recently. When I opened that plan that whole north wall on the 1st floor was one wall. I inserted a break in it, just guestimating about where, set it to hip and it worked. It still shows auto generated walls over the garage on the 2nd floor plan. That's not right, right?

Change the side garage wall from a gable to a hip roof default

What if you try to edit the 2nd floor and rotate that? If your main focus is for the garage area now, then the interior layout isn't critical for this exercise.

Keith, with the roof over this room turned off on the garage room this is what happens

It was 2019ish when I did the layout. I've forgotten a lot. It looks like it may be impossible to rotate everything into the requested orientation in one shot with the version of software I have. I have area edit. I do not have area edit all floors. Whether I use area edit or drag a selection box around everything while viewing the 1st floor it rotates the imported survey and 1st floor plan only. The 2nd floor auto generates some walls over the 1st floor in its new location but most of the 2nd floor, presumably anchored by what I had to draw manually stays put. It's been a long time since I did the 2nd floor layout but I think I vaguely recall putting a lot of effort into getting the curved staircase wall correct.

What you have posted, is way too poor for anyone to guess at what is needed for the existing house roof. As Rookie65 said, the front of the house should be parallel to the bottom of your screen. Fix your plan. It is the terrain that gets rotated and adjusted to the house. ???

I do think you'll want a version of the program that does manual roofs to accomplish this. For now, set the garage to have "no roof above" and see what that does for the main house. Plus you're working with an almost 7 year old version of the software. To me, Suite is like trying to paint a watercolor with crayons.

Hello, I was in the process of editing the original post with the software version as you were posting. I'm using HomeDesigner Suite 2019. I bought the software back then to design a kitchen remodel. I did the floor layout then but didn't bother with fixing the roofs. Now I'm designing a garage along the north property line. The new garage will have a hip roof. I'm going to fill the space between the north wall of the house and the new garage with a concrete pad covered probably by scissor trusses on columns for boat parking with roof coming off the north side of that to the angled wall on the new garage and roof coming off the side nearest the house over to the side entry door on the house. I need to get the roofs right on the house before I get into figuring out how to do the roofs on the pole barn/boat bar/car port/covered walkway section.