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Ty. I don't see the options - Hang 1st floor or the Show S Markers. I did have it rebuild the foundation but that didn't work. So I will try a room divider wall, place the columns and make the porch thicker and see if that works. TY

Just purchased Home Designer suite (had interiors from 2005). I am somewhat familiar with the program but mostly interior things. I am trying to get the basic exterior of my house in the program so I can work on designing a patio roof and area. I put on a wrap around porch in the program but my house is 22" off the ground because we are pier and beam. I made the foundation 22" in the program. I added a wrap around porch but am not sure how to make is have concrete underneath it like the rest of the house??? Also, I played around with the railing to see what I could do to have no railing but just columns. Is the best way to deselect all railing options and then select and put in posts? I did this but couldn't put columns exactly where mine are (I ended up with one that I didn't want on the end by the front door). This will do if that is the best way. TY

Ok...ty. I don't know if I even have the old file. I will just draw the basic house so I have the patio end to work with. Nothing else matters. I just need a program that will let me play with roof ideas. TY

I have a copy of Home Designer from 2005. I used it back then to design the home we have built and been living in the last 10 years. I don't even know if it will install but I am considering using it or upgrading (if necessary). I was able at that time to design my house just like we built it, including furniture and all with no problem but I never could get a roof on it the way I needed so we took the plans to someone and had the roof designed and drawn up for the builder. Now I would like to put in my existing patio and the end of the house that it is attached to (the current physical structures). Then I would like to play around with some different roof ideas that I have for covering the patio. The existing patio is round except on the side where it attaches to the house. There is a tree off center that we built around. We have some fabric shad cloth covers but want to build a sold patio cover connected to the side of the house because of the messy tree. We intend to build around the tree and put in some area of the roof of some type of transparent material. My question is as Home Designer improved the options and capabilities of putting on a roof in the newest version (compared to 2005 version)? Some of the issue could have been my understanding of how to make it do what I wanted also. I have some pictures I am attaching. My current patio is attached and then a few roof ideas that I would like to play around with (a gazebo or vaulted type roof but tied in to the side of the house or a 1/2 gazebo (octagonal) type roof coming out of the side of house, also a roof that comes off the side of the house flat but is curved on one end) The last pic is a dollhouse and I would like to be able to make a roof similar to it. What I mean is if you look at the pic of my house on the right corner there is a low shed roof coming around the corner of the house that I could extend and tie in to the cable over the triple french doors. Then put a full gazebo or octagaonal vaulted roof over the patio and have it connect to that roof. The dollhouse pic is close to what I mean except the corner gazebo in the dollhouse would be large and over my patio. I hope I make sense. If Home Designer is not the right software tool for my only project can someone suggest a free or relatively inexpensive software program that I can use for this project? Also, I am not a newbie to software like Home Designer but I am not highly skilled at either and would like something that is fairly intuitive. Thank you!