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You should be able to open yours and mine and copy the info from one to the other. The structure info is the most important. Are you able to do the terrain?

Did you see I posted a plan -- comment #8.

I'd send this one to support..

This should get you started. Main House and Guest House without elevation (eric).zip

Here is a simple plan. JamesSym 1.zip

The program has Undo, so when you change something that results in an unwanted action, just undo. Everyone wants to describe what went wrong, instead of saying what is correct, so I'll guess the garage is supposed to be lower. If so, open the garage room and change the Floor setting to something less than 0". And it's a good idea to check Automatically Rebuild Foundation in the Build Foundation dialog, and leave it checked, so you will be able to see problems as they arise.

It's really a room, not a landing. The program has landings but they are used differently. Open the landing room and change the floor field to 0". Here is the file I modified -- forgot to attach it yesterday. House_renovation_plans (eric).zip

Did you drop the landing down? I did not change the stairs, just copied them and they lined up.

Just an idea.

Like this? I made the bedroom wall invisible just to show the stairs. Move the stairs you have to the garage -- cut, go to level 0, paste hold position. (stairs are drawn from the lower level up) make the room where the landing is 0" floor, and move the wall shown in green. draw in the short section of stairs.

You would need Pro to do a curved roof, but you may get the basic shape by adding a wall (room divider) to the right of the door creating a small room. Lower the ceiling in that room and see how the roof changes. And thanks for filling out your signature!

Draw in an attic wall. Select it and reshape the bottom to conform to your ceiling. Pull the ceiling planes out to the outside edge of the wall. They snap to the main layer, so there will be a small gap.

Draw in your own ceiling planes.

Rebuild the foundation -- check slab.

Could you post an image of what you see on your plan? I tried in Architectural 2018 and this is what I get. When I suggested posting the plan, I was referring to the actual plan file, not an image of the plan

Chief Architect has 2 brands -- Home Designer and Chief Architect. Your best answers will come from Chief themselves. Suggest you contact sales directly.

Here is a quick video -- no sound. Start by extend the front wall across to give you a reference for drawing the roof plane. Draw a CAD line from the ridge across to give the new roof plane something to snap to. Draw the new plane. Copy it and reflect about the CAD line. Pull the edge up.

When you manually change pitch on a roof plane, you must be aware of where it pivots. The default is baseline -- read up on baseline for more info. In your case you want to pivot at the fascia, so you would lock the fascia height first, then change the pitch. You will probably still have a problem where the lower pitch porch roof intersects the steeper roofs, and may need to change the fascia board height to get a seamless joint.

You just need to connect all the edges with the Join Roof Planes Tool. (Edit Toolbar, looks like 2 triangles). Select an edge, click the Join tool (or press 2 -- the join tool shortcut) and select the edge to join it to. You could auto build this roof by changing roof settings in the walls under the steeper roof planes.

It's always good to provide a link to the article you are referencing.

As I said over on ChiefTalk, None of the Home Designer products have this feature.

I can with Premier -- don't remember about Pro. If not, just draw in plan and pretend it's in elevation.

Isn't this the same thing -- just done in elevation instead of plan?

I don't understand what you want to do. Here I have a wall and 2 speakers. I placed a point where someone will sit and after drawing lines, found an angle.

I know this seems like a simple question that should have a simple answer, but like so many things with this software, it depends. Posting a simple plan demonstrating the problem is almost always helpful.