MississippiMims

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  1. 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?

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  2. 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?

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  3. 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?

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  4. 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

  5. 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.

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  6. 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.

  7. 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.  

     

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    Shed Roof.png

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  8. 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.  

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  9. 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.  

  10. 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?

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  11. 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

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  12. image.thumb.png.44a164915d91e62ea9a24e81f0101b7b.pngI'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

  13. If I make those hips, the whole gable over the main structure disappears.  I think it needs the area b for aesthetics.  I may try to make the front gable narrower to avoid that corner.  It may be fixed by raising the roof baseline.  I will try that.  Materials are also acting weird in this project.  I had my walls set for the lighter brick that shows in the gable but somehow it keeps showing the red brick on the lower walls and I'm having trouble changing materials.  

  14. My client wants the gable (area A) on the front of this house to be open with a heavy beam sunburst.  However, when I open the room dialogue and turn on "use soffit as ceiling", the walls in area B disappear.  I figure it has something to do with the two porch walls facing the center of the house but I can't figure out how to fix it.  Any suggestions?

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  15. I started with the software to draw spec houses that my business partner and I are also building.  We also build custom homes, most of which I have been drawing the plans for as well.  Efficiency is most definitely what I seek.  As you can imagine between designing, building, and a full time job as a fireman, spare time is short.  I will most likely take advantage of the update next year and might consider premier.