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Please post a simple plan demonstrating this. 4 walls to form the house, and your exterior wall.

Use a Skylight

The software is not designed to work that way. Drawing walls to form rooms is fast and easy. As David said, learn the software as use it as intended.

You never hold the space bar down to do anything. The space bar is tapped to exit the current mode only. You are doing it wrong -- obvious conclusion, I know. For dimensioning, try turning off all auto dimensions and rely on Temporary Dimensions. Look at your dimension defaults to make sure the settings are as you expect -- dimension to wall surface vs to framing, for example. This depends on which view you are in. The tools (icons) available are dependent on being in plan, elevation etc.

1) Please fill out your Signature -- see below. 2) As for learning, start with the YouTube videos linked below. Here is one to start with. Try to understand how the program works, and less on how to do specific things. Start simple. Draw 4 walls to form a room, build a foundation. Don't try to make all the settings perfect, just become familiar with how the program operates. Make one wall a gable, etc. Experiment and see how the program reacts. There is a step by step tutorial in the users guide that many start with. New users often expect there are on/off answers to every question, and that's rarely the case. Mostly answers are dependent on multiple settings and where (what view) you are in the program. Posting images of your screen (windows snipping tool), and your plan file -- when you have one, will help others understand and provide the best response. -------------- It helps if we know what title (Suite, Pro etc) and version (2014, 2015 etc) you are using. You can add this info to your signature by clicking on your user name at the top right of the page, click Account Settings, then Signature on the left. Doing so makes it always available, and this info is often key to providing a good suggestion Resources for self help: The built in Help System (always a good place to start) Getting Started Knowledge Base YouTube

Part of the problem are the invisible walls by the fireplace. They are No Room Definition, which prevents the porch from becoming a room. There is another problem that I don't understand, but will recommend a way to fix it. When you select the exterior room on your plan, it looks like this. It should look like this. It may just be the way you built the model, but I've not seen this and don't know the cause. I would start a new plan. Use Edit>Edit Area to move each floor to the new plan. I tried this and it corrected the exterior room error. Try to get the structure correct before adding things like the fireplace. As you add it, keep checking that rooms are still defined etc.

Make sure it's not open in Pro.

The software wants you to draw walls (railings) first, forming a room. You set the room to a specific type as desired (Porch), make changes if needed to the structure settings, and optionally build a roof. Why have you done things differently? If you post your plan file, someone may take a look. No one can tell from an image.

I'd send to support.

It didn't disappear. You posted on ChiefTalk https://chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com/topic/15006-crown-moldings-wont-move/#comment-127043 But here on HomeTalk is where you should be.

I understand what you are trying to do by building walls on a dimensioned foundation, but that's not how the program wants to work. Try to leave auto rebuild foundation on as long as possible, and you cannot do that with your method. Here is an alternate way. On floor 1, draw CAD lines outlining your foundation. Draw walls over the lines. The wall outside main layer will snap to the lines, so you may need to move the location of these lines in so that the wall aligns correctly. Use Concentric Resize to do this. Now when you build the foundation, it will be in the correct position under the walls. Before you build the foundation, change the floor location in the rooms that vary from the default. For that back room, make the floor -24 (or whatever is correct) and the foundation will build correctly. Use walls on the first floor to outline the stairwell -- make it Open Below, turn off the roof, and drop the ceiling to 0 or even a negative number. This way the foundation walls will build below.

Start a new plan and select a template. Place a cabinet. Start another plan using a different template. Place a cabinet. The cabinets should be different.

Did you do a forum search for nana?

With roofs, like many things in the software, we need to consider the entire structure, because seemingly disconnected changes can effect other areas of the roof. I worked with the side wall, but doing something similar to the rear wall may also work. Set the side wall roof overhang to 0. Create a room outside (you can see its floor -- make it Open Below etc to make it disappear) and lower the ceiling height. Set the end wall to Full Gable.

Open the front wall, Structure panel, and check Through Wall At Start. Check Help for Start and End indicators. I have mine on, as you need this info for many operations. I assume you drew these clockwise, so start is on the right.

It looks like you copied instead of cutting the deck. Here are the specs I used when moving it back up. Once that was done, and I deleted your stair sections, the new stairs, drawn from the ground up snapped right into position. Sounds like you have what you need, and learned more than you wanted to about stairs.

Work on the roof one step at a time. After building the 2nd floor, build a roof. What needs to change? Set walls to gable as needed, now what does it look like? You will need to lower the roof above the garage. Figure that part out and make that change. Draw just a garage, add a 2nd floor. Learn how build the roof where you want it. Add the dormer etc. Once you understand this, apply it to the larger model. Tip: Ceiling heights control where the roof builds. Tip: Make the bay window and the small bump out in front separate rooms using a Room Divider. Uncheck Roof Over This Room for the bump out, and set the bay window room to use Roof Group 1. Changing the roof group makes the program build the roof as if it were on a different structure. This will need manual cleanup.

You will need a roof plane above the stairs to create the upper slope.

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Check out the resources I linked above. Maybe spend a few hours going over some of the YouTube videos. It seems common for people to jump in and start on a big first project while trying to learn the software at the same time. Consider using test plans. Draw a one room structure. Add a roof. Add a 2nd floor. Work to understand how the program works, then apply that knowledge to a more complex plan. I also recommend learning the manual roof tools, especially if you are using the software in a business. This roof would be quick to draw manually. I don't mind helping out, giving pointers etc, but your plan has no roof. One last suggestion is to pose bite sized questions. Like: I added a 2nd floor, but when I build the roof, it builds over the first floor, ignoring the 2nd. ------- Your default exterior wall is marked as a Foundation Wall. Uncheck that. Delete the foundation and rebuild. Check Auto Rebuild Foundation. Delete the 2nd floor. Delete the Attic floor. Add a new 2nd floor. This is obviously incomplete, and will need some manual cleanup, but it's auto built.

Templates are a collection of settings. There is nothing to see.

Most times it's best to start a new thread, especially when your problem is different. Use a thin soffit against the wall, or the backsplash option on the cabinets.

Copy the 2 outside walls that define the deck. Cut/Paste Hold Position on the first floor. Copy/Paste In Place does just what it says. Example. You have a porch where you want 3 columns, one on each corner and one centered. Place 1 column at a corner and adjust as required. Copy/Reflect About the center of the porch room to place the far corner column. Copy/Paste In Place while it's still selected, then use the Center tool to center it on the porch room center.

Copy the Deck to the first floor. Set its Absolute Floor to what is was when located on the second floor, and set the room type back to Deck. You should be able to draw stairs from the bottom up and have them connect.