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Pictures of the existing house will generally help more than a description. It's typical to begin with an auto built roof, then switch to manual. I will suggest that you not use the dormer tools, instead think of the dormers as rooms with different ceiling height and roof slope.

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What does the documentation say? If your stairs are correctly connected, you should see something similar to this, I think, although this is from Chief, so I'm sure interiors will look different.

Check wall connections and make sure the appropriate walls are not marked No Room Definition.

That's the way window sills work. If you want seamless, use a soffit or custom countertop with moldings, placed manually in the opening.

You need to be in an elevation or other camera view, not plan view.

Some suggestions on asking for suggestions. Ask clear questions. In all of the above, there are only 3 question marks, and only one is a question that seems to relate to a problem. Except, I'm not clear on what's wrong with the room, and what values you want. Floor finish is carpet, wood, tile etc. In your case, I would make it the thickness of the floor structure and flooring that was added when the garage was converted.

Windows and doors must insert into a wall, so you cannot create a doorway for the casing, then place windows/doors within the opening. You should be able to come close on the look for the windows -- casing off, then use a Custom Backsplash for the trim.

Your porch would normally have a 4" slab on top of fill, with foundation walls supporting it. You would need to draw in your own foundation walls, which might be Pony Walls. What I was suggesting is you create a surface to apply the stone to. It might be only 1/16" thick. Because I don't know exactly what you want to do, I must give somewhat generic suggestions.

The simple way is to use a slab, soffit etc to fill in as needed, then make it stone. I noticed you have Angle Snaps off, which is generally not something you want to do. Makes it easy to draw off angle.

Do you have Roof Over This Room checked for the deck room?

Do you want a roof over the deck? You will need to tell us more about what you are trying to do for anyone to help. Adding images, drawings etc, and even your plan file will give others something to work with.

Add your post manually.

Right click on one of them. Do you have Send To Back, or something similar. They are being drawn after the countertop, and need to be in a different drawing group.

Is this what you want? You need to turn on the display of the layers you want to see.

Build the roof with the ceiling at 8'. Turn off auto rebuild roof if it is on and raise the ceiling to 10'.

I'd use a soffit placed in the back of the cabinet.

You created a room by enclosing the space with a railing. Select the room (the slab will select first, so Tab to select the room). Open it and uncheck roof over this room.

Open the balcony room and uncheck Roof Over This Room.

See this thread for some info.

Look in the Library/Bonus Catalogs.

You can draw in a stem wall using the slab tool. In an elevation, you can add CAD work to show the stem wall. Changing the wall definition also works. Here I made everything except the main layer for the upper wall Opening No Material. Don't use a Framing Overview for this.

What didn't work? And what exactly are you trying to do? I just tested selecting multiple objects, copy/paste into a new plan. Also using Edit Area works. You can create an Architectural Block and copy/paste it, or even add it to your library for reuse.

I believe you, but that's just showing the position of an invisible object.