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All I care about is seeing Pro 2018 in the signature. As far as workflow, this looks good to me. Your problem will be the terrain and creating an accurate model. I would start with as few data points as possible. More tends to confuse the software. Contour lines the same. Without seeing the existing house I can't comment on any potential problems with modeling it. Draw the terrain and house in the same plan. Draw the house square with the screen and rotate the terrain as needed.

The dashed red lines are Room Divider walls. The dashed darker lines show a soffit. The shorter room dividers work to keep the connections square. You will need to experiment a bit to get what you want.

I did this in an older trial version of Suite, so it should work for you. The blue is a soffit. The gray above is a Wedge Shape from the library. Place them in plan, take an elevation and use the edit handles to shape. I used a Pass Through for the opening -- see the Shape settings. Make a copy of the stair. Open it and set its width to 3". Center it over the wedge and change the number of treads -- make it shorter. Change the baluster material on the main stair to Opening No Material, and turn off the right side railing. Change the newel on the skinny stair and you should be close.

Thanks. Can you post an image of what you want to do -- or what you have and a bit better description? There are multiple conditions that might be described as "Trying to make triangular shape under the stairs", and they all require doing something different.

You will need to post the plan.

Forgot to add this one. You have the Stem Wall for this room at 50". Set it back to default.

You deleted the garage walls, but not the foundation. Check Rebuild Foundation and leave it checked until the foundation is correct. You must tell the program to apply your settings in many cases. These settings are from your plan and show the out of box defaults for the foundation, not your changes. Delete the garage and its foundation and the wall fills in. If you look, you will see the roof that is building over the garage foundation is intruding into the house. Roof planes cut walls, so the program built that wall until if found a roof plane. I assure you there are many Mac users using the software without issue. ----- You should set the room types too. Especially the garage as it's treated differently. I noticed you created a Slab room under the garage, which is not the way to build a garage. I linked some videos on YouTube above, and it might help you to watch some of the 1 hour quick start ones. They go through, step by step creating a house. You seem to be fighting the software and are clearly frustrated. Suite will do a lot, but it's far from perfect and requires out of the box solutions to many problems.

Can you tell us specifically what you want? People tend to talk about the problems they are having and leave out what they are trying to accomplish . Do you have images of an existing house?

If you are asking about the .calibz files you downloaded, they would probably be in your default Downloads folder. I would download from the website as there are changes and fixes that are incorporated into the catalogs, and the ones for Pro may be different that the ones for Suite.

They can be group selected and dragged into Pro, so no need to do them one at a time.

It's just the way the program works. When you export, it becomes a User Catalog, and gets imported into the User Catalog. If you have the individual .calibz files that were downloaded, they may be imported and will go into the correct spot.

Did you see my answer on ChiefTalk?

This is from Chief using a standard brick wall. I'm unsure about Pro. Do you have this setting?

And as Jo Ann suggested, make sure you have installed the core content -- Library menu.

Try a Soffit (Cabinet Tools) for your bench. Use the Material Eyedropper to pick up the material from the floor and apply it to the soffit.

I believe you are correct. The templates include things not available in the standard library. I don't understand the issue. What are you trying to do that you cannot?

If that is a requirement where you are building, then yes.

Your questions are far outside the scope of this forum, but I'll try to give you some suggestions. Hire a professional. While you may be capable of this project, statistics say otherwise. Starting off with "I am not sure where to begin", is not a good sign. Do you have a builder in mind? Consider bringing one in early to act as a consultant. Someone that could guide you through the process, starting with reviewing your building site. Someone who will do a design review as the plan progresses, answering questions and keeping you on track. There are many books available too -- construction, and design. You might find a plan online. Designing a home is far more than drawing exterior walls and then filling in the interior with rooms. I've looked at many owner drawn plans, and very rarely see one that's well designed.

You will need to reshape as needed.

I was just getting to that. If you turn on Reference Display (F9), you will see the upper and lower walls are not aligned. Is this the way the house is built? If not align them -- get close then use the Align With Wall Below (or Align With Wall Above) tool.

Try -4.45 degrees and move the roof up 455mm. After joining, the join should be along the CAD line.

Because the main roof is not flat, you need to tilt the baseline of the tipped up part. Look at the bottom of the roof plane dialog -- (I think Pro has this). It looks like -4.5 (or something close) degrees works. I imagine there is a formula to compute this angle, but I did it by guessing. Draw the roof plane at an angle along the cad line. Change the baseline angle. Raise the roof plane using Transform/Replicate (Z axis). Join the 2 roof planes with the join command. Expect this to be a bit of trial and error. If it does not line up as you want, undo and make a change to the baseline angle. Nearly right bar roof (Eric).zip

Don't know why. Use 2 cabinets and a partition. Use what you have but make the cabinet 1" taller, then position it -1" to the finished floor.