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Are you having problems or just curious? This is a good question for sales/support.

The Knowledge Base is a good place to look. https://www.homedesignersoftware.com/support/article/KB-00138/adding-a-custom-material.html

If auto rebuild roofs is off, you can cut the roof planes and paste/hold position an an upper floor. Right click on a roof plane and choose Display On Floor Above. Floors are a place where things show in plan, not necessarily where they show in a camera view. I could draw a slab on floor 5, and set its height so it displays at ground level.

Pro has manual roof tools. Have you considered using them?

You will find this tool in the Edit Toolbar. The Edit Toolbar is context sensitive, so it displays things relevant to whatever is selected. You may also right click the stair, and find the Edit Toolbar items there. By default, it's in the status bar lower left of the window.

Search the forum for tub. Check the Knowledge Base too.

What type of issue?

Is what David posted -- using a soffit for the glass, not working? You can do this differently in Architectural using a Pony Wall, but the soffit will often give you better control.

The software does what you tell it -- no automatic scaling. As David said "You look at it and adjust manually as necessary". I'll ask again. What is correct? What are you seeing, or not seeing that you don't like?

Don't know why it's this way, but here is how to fix. Select everything on level 2 and copy (or cut) it. Use the Delete Current Floor tool. Create a new blank floor, setting the ceiling height and any other structure settings. Paste/Hold Position the copied floor. You should now be able to change the defaults.

What is correct? What are you seeing, or not seeing that you don't like?

Check with support.

There is no simple way to model 3D dirt. The software creates surfaces, not solids. A slab, for example is hollow, as seen in the cross section view you provided. That said, you could use a slab (paint with a dirt material) and position your cross section just in front of it.

Do you understand that's not how it would be built? The void would be filled with compacted earth, or more likely, never excavated. If you want to show a block of concrete, use the slab tool to fill the space.

Do you want to remove the floor?

Click the edge.

You may select the Drawing Sheet and move it as required.

And I still think this is the way to do the roof.

Using a 2nd floor Open Below space is like using a soffit for a ceiling plane -- it works, but isn't needed. The simple suggestion is to use the manual roof tools to create the roof. Set your defaults, auto build the roof getting as close as you can with simple settings. Then use the manual tools to complete the roof. Take a look at this plan. I deleted the 2nd floor, raised the ceiling in the central part, changed the pitch from 3 to 5 and set the end walls as gable. Auto built the roof. Looks close to me. A few manual adjustments may be all that is needed. designer468_house-2c-k2-living2 (eric A).zip

Generally, you don't change wall heights, you change the ceiling height and the walls follow up or down. What did you do?

Yes

A few suggestions. Start by drawing walls to accurately reflect the house as is. Set ceiling heights, floor structures etc and build the foundation (check Auto Rebuild Foundation). Ignore the roof. Your goal is to get the structure correct -- minus the roof. Don't add doors, windows, furniture, paint, cabinets etc, just focus on the structure. Once done, save this file as your base. Make a copy and start working on the roof. Change the defaults -- pitch, overhang etc, and make changes to walls (gable). Auto build the roof. Your goal is to create an accurate, as built model of the house. If the auto build is close, but not perfect, turn off auto build and make manual changes. There are a bunch of YouTube videos on roofs. https://www.youtube.com/user/ChiefArchitectInc/search?query=roof also The Chief Architect and Home Designer videos are applicable as they have the same basic roof tools. David also has a bunch of videos on YouTube. Try to understand the concept, instead of looking for a match to your specific situation. I'll recommend you start a new plan, draw a simple structure and use it to experiment. Manual roofs are not difficult, but do take a bit of practice. There is nothing magic about a roof plane. They may be deleted, copied, moved up and down, reshaped etc. I normally work in a Camera View for rough edits, then switch to plan to finish. Again, the goal is to create an accurate, as built of the existing house. Once done, save it, make a copy and start on the remodel plan. ------------ You don't need the 2nd floor Open Below room. Raise the ceiling height in the rooms where it changes, delete, or pull back existing roof planes, and draw 2 new roof planes to cover it. Join the new roof planes to the old. ------------ Only when the structure is correct should you add in all the extras. ------------ Pro has all the tools needed, but you do need to learn them. The roof tools make it easy to do more complex roofs, when compared with lesser titles, but you need to understand the roof tools, and know how to use them.

You may move the ceiling plane up or down via its dialog box, or using transform replicate. Take an elevation and measure the distance to move it. Sloped soffits might be used as a ceiling plane, but they don't create vaulted ceilings. I'm sure Jo Ann used soffits because she does not have Pro.

Pro has manual ceiling planes that work very much like manual roof planes. You should not be using soffits for ceiling planes. Check the website for videos.

I have not looked at your plan, but here are a few ideas. If you have used any manual roof planes, make sure they are all joined with those adjacent. Also check that the rooms below all have the same ceiling height. When you turn off Ceiling Over This Room, what you see is the underside of the roof plane, not necessarily a finished ceiling. You will most often need to draw in your own ceiling planes to cover any gaps. As for the interior wall above with plywood showing, it looks like the upper wall is probably thicker than the wall below -- like it's an exterior wall over an interior wall. For the last weird plywood problem, I'd fix other things first. You may need to pull the roof plane back, and it may fix itself as the model is updated.