MississippiMims

Anybody know how to make an invisible wall that wont show up in the floorplan? I cant get rid of the outline of the wall and this has been confusing for some framers.

Is there any way to display a portion of stairs in a floorplan view? I would like the door below the stairs to display in the floorplan and have half of the stairs, approximately where the blue line is in the attached image.

Thanks David. The answer to this problem for others having trouble locating it is under the foundation defaults. Select "Walls with footings" and under where you specify the thickness of the slab, check the box that says "slab at top of stem wall".

Raised slabs are becoming more popular in my area. We've built several houses this way recently by building a 16"-24" CMU wall on a footing, backfilling with compacted dirt, and pouring a slab on top. Any suggestions on how to model this?

Can it be done at all? After reading your reply I tried to build it with multiple units to no avail.

I'm trying to fill the space between these vanities with a full height cabinet (outlined in blue). Is this possible?

Yes I did and turning it off before deleting the second floor worked. I knew it had to be something simple. Thanks

A customer has decided to remove a bonus room over the garage. My problem is when I go to the floor and 'delete current floor', it drops the roof shown in the attached screenshot. What step am I missing?

I have a client wanting a house with some prairie style influence. I'm looking for ideas on how to model a tapered or slanted wall like the blue wall in the example attached. I will also be using this same detail in the brick columns on the front porch. Anyone have any suggestions on how to accomplish either?

Thanks. I will give it a try. I usually try to get as much done as I can with Auto Roofs before switching over to manual. I was hoping to get the returns in automatically.

Anyone have any idea why one side of my roof return disappeared? I have made some changes and gone back to auto roofs but earlier when I changed the roof pitch on the front gable to 12:12, both sides of the roof return disappeared. Am I missing something?

I'm searching for a way to have items display on a different layer. Specifically, I want an attic wall from a dormer to display on the attic layer instead of the second floor. (Solver you mentioned this before but I have been unable to find a way to do this) Another instance is when I turn a weight bearing wall into a foundation wall to produce a footing, I would like the footing to display on the foundation layer instead of in the floorplan. Wes

Very helpful Eric. Thanks. The dormer fix video showed me I had to extend the wall, break it, and then change the extension to an attic wall with "roof cuts wall at bottom" selected. My last question is can these attic walls be turned off in plan view? I need the exterior attic wall to display for clarity but having the dormer walls show like they are extending into the room will be confusing for the framers.

Finally able to attach. I want to fill in the hole circled.

That is the tutorial that I referenced. For some reason It wont let me attach another photo to demonstrate my issue. I want the dormer wall height set to just above a window but without affecting the room ceiling height. Then I want the exterior wall to extend and fill in the space between the dormer roof and the main roof without extending below the ceiling.

I am having trouble placing a dormer. I would like to place a dormer over the walls I have circled in the glass house view attached. I want a shed roof along the lines of the attached section. I get all of the normal "walls in the way" or "can't locate wall to support dormer" warnings when trying to place an auto dormer. So I figure I will have to build it manually. I figured out how to create a roof opening (thanks to EricOn's tutorial) and can get the walls to extend through the roof. The problem is getting the walls to extend up the roof to the point where the shed roof meets the main roof without having to extend the wall below the ceiling. I also want to lower the ceiling in the dormer to just above the window and slope up at 3:12 pitch. This will be a hunting lodge and the client wants a sleeping loft for his grandkids. Arinder.plan

Anyone know how to get rid of the dormer protrusions in the photo? I assume they are part of the attic or something because they don't show up in the photo views.

Thank you for the direction Eric. I had seen that setting but never used it until I researched it. Luckily I still had auto rebuild roofs on so it was as simple as raising the roof 24". I did have to go back and turn auto rebuild roofs off so I could lower the porch roof.

I'm trying to raise the exterior wall height and therefor the roof of the house in the screenshot to the blue line approximately. I cannot raise the ceiling height in the room dialogue because it effects the second floor. I need the ceilings to stay the same so the second floor will be unaffected. I can manipulate the wall height by moving its polyline in an elevation view but then how do I get the roof to follow so that it sits on the exterior wall top plate?

The easiest way I've found is to draw a single ceiling plane over the room you want to lower. Select the plane once it's drawn to open the dialogue. Set the slope to 0 degrees and lock the slope. Then set your ceiling height and apply.

I got it manually. Added an attic wall. All it took was a little time. Thanks for listening.

I can get pretty close making alterations to the roof manually but how do I fill the gable I created with a wall?

Attached is the general shape of a house I'm working on. I want to make the roof left of the center section match the roof on the right side. I want to add a small gable to the portion indicated with the blue lines. I haven't had much luck with the 'draw gable line' tool. Any suggestions?ztest.plan

I had not tried manually building the roof to go around the wall. I'll try that. Thanks.

I'm working on an existing structure and having trouble getting this wall to build correctly. With "roof cuts wall at bottom" checked, the wall builds like the attached picture. With it unchecked, the two sections of the wall swap from unbuilt to built and vice-versa. Any suggestions? Wes Mims Home Designer Pro 2021