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  1. Providing an image of your model helps. Often it's a simple setting change. This keeps others from needing to supply step by step, start to finish instructions. I've made the outer room ceiling 0". The outside walls flanking the entry are set to Gable.
  2. Are you comfortable with the manual roof tools? This is a very simple roof to build using them.
  3. Try drawing your countertop over the top of the CAD drawing. Objects sometimes will snap to line work. Here I've drawn lines, like the one across the bottom, and the countertop curve snapped to it.
  4. I'd use 3 walls, one in front of the other. Place a doorway in each of the 2 outer walls adjusting the size and arch as needed. Place a door in the innermost wall.
  5. I bet you are correct. I was thinking this.
  6. The setting is located in the Window Defaults, but it works for windows and doors.
  7. Change Minimum Separation to 0.
  8. This will be challenging -- maybe impossible in Suite using the available tools. Curved roofs look really nice, but are costly to build. If you have a contractor for this project, I'd run your ideas by them.
  9. If you are asking about modeling the cabinet, one upgrade in newer versions is this. Makes doing this type of modification easy. You may need 3 cabinets to do the same.
  10. When you say "section" are you referring to creating a single cabinet with that configuration and not like "cross section"?
  11. I encourage you to learn the manual roof tools, but this may easily done with the auto roof. The software does not handle the lower pitch roof correctly using its default settings, so you need to change these. I lowered the pitch to 2.75 so the intersection of the lower roof and upper roof would be about even with the ridge running over the front door. This was an educated guess. I then adjusted the In From Baseline setting until the junction looked correct. Suggest you experiment a bit, entering different combinations so you understand what each does and how it affects the roof. If I were manually doing this, I would auto build the roof without the porch roof. Delete unneeded planes and reshape the main roof. Draw in the porch roof manually so it reaches to the main roof, then adjust the ridge height to match the height of the main roof where they join, letting the pitch float. Easier to do than to describe.
  12. solver

    unwanted lines

    The basement wall on the right side just has painted brick on it. Redefine it, adding an actual layer of brick on the exterior, and it looks better. Also pay attention to Interior/Exterior orientation on walls. Make sure the exterior side is facing out. This foundation wall was reversed. I deleted the attic gable wall -- the program rebuilt it, and that cleaned up more lines. Sometimes Balloon Through Ceiling Above may be used, but be sure to check that the program removes the wall above -- often it does not and you end up with 2 walls in the same space. Note on the front corner the 1st floor and basement walls are not aligned, resulting in a line. Read up on how walls automatically align floor to floor, and especially how basement walls align. It's difficult to give clear instructions on eliminating these lines because there are many causes. Sometimes I will use Delete Current Floor on the Attic level to clean up artifacts -- walls that the program auto built but are no longer needed. The program will automatically rebuild attic walls, so if you try this, select windows etc that are on the attic level and copy them, then Paste/Hold Position to put them back after the program rebuilds the walls.
  13. I imagine you need some of the Bonus Catalogs. They need to be manually downloaded and installed. I will encourage you to move the terrain and not the floor. The program is designed so that dimensions are relative to the floor 1 floor. Curious where in Texas. Native Texan here -- Houston then Austin.
  14. You want to see the edges of the door and drawers all together in one section? I should ask what you are wanting to do. Have you tried a Back Clipped Cross Section?
  15. Check the Build Rood Dialog, Roof Styles. Read up on the Gullwing roof type.
  16. I did not measure, but all you need to do is adjust the terrain up or down. patio plan temp (eric).plan
  17. The interior floor is fine. Why do you think it needs to come down? If you are worried about the floor at the garage door, put a wall in to divide the garage and call that space a Garage. Can't answer without understanding how your house is built. Again, it's not important. Make the foundation taller, then raise the terrain so it is the correct distance below the porch. Don't mess with the house floor -- it's correct. Here is the house with the changes i suggested above.
  18. Because you are looking for a visual and not an accurate structural model, I would make the foundation 48" high and the terrain will hide the excess. Then raise the terrain so the spacing between it and the porch is correct. Open the patio and lower it -- give the Floor field a negative value. Your yard is sloped, so you may want to work with the terrain giving it the same slope. I suggested you make the porch floor thick was so you could rebuild the foundation and not need to manually redraw foundation walls under the porch. Again, you are looking for a visual, and any excess would be hidden by the terrain. And keep in mind that measurements are relative to your 0 (zero) height first floor.
  19. solver

    Floor Problems

    When one room is different that all the others in structure, take a look at the rooms that are correct and compare with the incorrect space
  20. Looking at a section view will make the numbers clear.
  21. Sorry -- I forget how stupidly limited Suite is. Try this. I just used 24" as an example. You can paint the thick wood as concrete, or you might be able to set it so in defaults.
  22. Change the Room Type to Porch. You have made the floor finish thicker, and a Porch has no Floor Finish, so increase the thickness of the slab. You can move the slab up or down using the floor setting under Structure.
  23. What's too high? Image? Your porches are well above the ground (terrain). What do you want to lower?