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Hi everyone, I'm wondering how / if there is a way to properly create carriage / swing doors for a garage in HDA 2015. I tried it by adding a garage door to the model, then changing the Door Type from "Garage" type to "Hinged" and enabling the "Double Door Only" option. I selected a set of carriage doors from the library. The result looks like this: The issue is that it put an entire carriage door pair into each of the two swing doors—technically it put four separate doors where there should be only two. This is visible in the image as there should be only 4 windows across the top (2 in each swing door) but instead there are 8. Any ideas? Thanks and regards, KDJ

Hi Mick, My roof doesn't cut through because I don't want it to. Sorry didn't realize that was the goal (I couldn't get Snow's pics to open either)..., I thought it was just to get a parapet roof to abutt against an external wall that has its own gable roof. Either way, the double-wall/invisible technique works great! Thanks, KDJ PS, I used the Material Painter as that's what the tutorial shows to use for parapet roofs. The tutorial is incorrect? It gave me the impression that all wall layer properties are assigned, not just surface texture. And thanks for the tip about the edit handles being on the "exterior" side of the wall; I always wondered how to know which side is which for interior walls!

Great tips here! I followed the tip to place the two walls against each other and make one invisible. I was able to create this combination of a parapet roof, gable roof, and "penthouse". Timely, as I needed this for the design I'm creating! In mine I didn't need to set the rooftop deck to the Balcony type, I just left it as whatever it is by default. I'm really not sure why I didn't need to, like suggested above. I still ended up with a seam in the siding around the outer walls. I set the half-wall thicknesses to be the same as the walls on the lower level, and I used the material painter to apply the siding. I used Align With Walls Below, yet in different tests I could only get it flush on 1 out of 4 sides on a full parapet roof. Strange...

Ah yes! That's exactly what I was hoping to create! Wow it actually cleaned up the edges pretty nice, too.

Thanks everyone! And double thanks for posting the examples! Eric, I wonder what your second photo would look like if you set the upper level room to Open Below so that it removes that floor. That's actually pretty close to what I'm trying to do in my design. Jo-Ann, I'll have a look at the Glass Wall option. I didn't realize that was in there..., so far I had only seen the Room Divider and Invisible Wall options for creating "phantom" walls. Mick, this is for personal design of my own home. I may give the Pro version a look-see, but it's a big price jump if it's only going to offer me one extra thing I'll use (and I would debate it should already be in Architect since the sales info lists vaulted ceilings as a capability). Thanks again KDJ

Okay thanks everyone. It's as I feared... (worse, actually). Guess I'm lucky I discovered this early in the 30-day trial. I'd like to look at this from both angles: what can I expect from the suggested workarounds in the Architect version, and what I can expect from Pro. Starting with Pro, Mick you mentioned a wall definition option "lower wall type if split by butting roof". What will this do? Will it create exactly what I'm looking for in this example, including with the neighbouring open space? Will the ceiling drywall close in correctly where the vaulted ceiling and internal wall surface meet? Will it update automatically without needing further manual intervention as I change material types, room sizes, roof pitch, etc.? Will it play well with mouldings, windows (above the roofline), etc.? For Architect, Jo-Ann am I correct to assume that the suggested workarounds will NOT update automatically as I change room sizes, roof pitches, etc., and I would need to manually redefine these cover-up/"band-aid" features after each one of those changes? Also would I also face difficulties in adding features to the affected wall above the roofline, such as windows, crown moulding, etc? Two other possible workarounds that came to me that I can explore when I'm home this evening... One is to try adding multiple Breaks to the external wall in question, and then manually define the bottom of each wall segment at different heights so they remain concealed by roof structure. I suspect though that the ceiling will look like crap immediately below this wall, with open holes in the drywall, etc. The second idea is to simply toggle certain things on/off as I generate each needed floor plan or 3D view so that each one looks representative, since I can't make them all do so simultaneously. I could even save a second copy of my entire plan, and then tweak them with individual settings to optimize display for each of the affected floors. One plan would be used to show the interior view on lower levels, and the other for the interior view from the upper levels and the exterior views. Thoughts? Thanks again KDJ

Hi, and thanks No joy though in my version This is all I see:

Hello all, I'm new to this software, and loving it so far I'm using the Architect 2015 version. I'm having an issue with the exterior wall surface from upper levels extending down past vaulted ceilings on lower levels. See photos. I was expecting the exterior wall surface to stop at the roof line and the portion below the vaulted ceiling to appear as an internal wall surface. Next, if I change the upper level room to Open Below to create an atrium, this external wall protrudes into the space below the vaulted ceiling, whereas I'd like it to end flush with the roof/ceiling structure. (Note, prior to setting the upper room to Open Below, I added a Room Divider Wall to the lower level, aligned with this same exterior wall above. I did this as I've found if I don't the entire lower level ceiling/roof jacks up about a foot above all the crown mouldings for some reason.) I've seen some discussion here in the forum on similar issues, however the remedies seemed unique to the Pro version if I understood correctly. I need something that would work with the Architect version. I'm hoping it's just a simple setting I've overlooked to clip walls automatically at lower roofs. Thanks and regards, Kyle PS, the above photos are just from a quick model I made specifically to test/show this issue. There's nothing else in it beyond what you see, and it was created using one of the built-in templates.