All,
Thank you of the quick responses. The video was as well as the comments are spectacular and i will be trying them today. I will repost the results later when I have successfully completed it.
As far as the structural thinking for my question, I drew a quick sketch of what I wanted the walls to look like in HD, but I left out the wooden columns that currently exist supporting the beam across the top, that being said, I know that it will have to have support to cover the span. Our goal currently with software is draw our house as it is (current project), and then draw it visually the way we would like it to be (next HD project) then using my wife's skills (she is a civil engineer) and those of an architect as well as the physical blue prints we have for the home when it was built, review what changes we can actually make and retain structural integrity
Thank you all very much for your help