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    Dormer Questions

    1) Move main roof planes up one level. 2) Right click on a dormer and select Explode Dormer. 3) Place a skylight at the corner of the dormer. Open it and uncheck Skylight. Resize it to make a hole in the roof for your dormer walls to come through. Adjust as needed.
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    Dormer Questions

    What are the issues? What is "right"?
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    Steeple

    Search for shapes in the library. Soffits, Custom Countertops, Slabs are also a possibility.
  4. The trial versions do not save any data, so there is nothing to retrieve.
  5. Size the 2 cabinets as required. Select one, and use the center tool to center it over/under the other.
  6. You don't. It's a limitation of Home Designer and Chief Architect. Consider using a note on each floor explaining the destination of the wire.
  7. I believe David has answered better than I would have.
  8. You need a hole in the roof. Skylight, set it to be a hole.
  9. How did you build the second floor? One of the parameters is ceiling height, which sets the wall height, which sets the roof height. To raise the walls, you must raise the roof. To raise the roof using automatic roof building, you must raise the ceiling height. To do it manually, select the roof plane you want to raise, click the Transform/Replicate tool, check Move, and enter a z value.
  10. You will need to do it manually in the Home Designer titles.
  11. Various discussions on these in the past. Making your own is not difficult. Consider a Custom Backsplash, and using Transform/Replicate to cover a wall.
  12. Spend some time learning manual roofs. What you need to do is really simple. Select the roof plane you want to move. Use the Transform/Replicate tool to move it up or down (z axis). The wall will follow it. Now in a camera view showing the roof planes, click the ridge of one, press 2, click on the other ridge to rejoin the ridges. If that does not work, select the ridge and pull the roof plane back down towards the eave, then try again. Open the Roof Plane Specification dialog. On the first panel, you can see where you can change pitch, and various heights. Draw a 1 room structure, put a gable roof on it, then play with the settings to see what each does.
  13. The program needs a wall for wall mounted electrical. Define a new wall type that looks like this. The name is not important. Enter 1/512 for the thickness -- the program will show it as 0. This will create an invisible wall you can use anywhere you need electrical on something that's not a wall. I also use this as a Room Divider, which is why it's named RD. It works better than the Room Divider wall type that is built in.
  14. Where have you looked? 3D Warehouse?
  15. What have you been trying to figure out?
  16. Be mindful of your ceiling height upstairs. I raised the backside roof I think, 4'.
  17. Pull the walls out and then back under the stair. I added a tread to the lower flight and removed one from the upper.
  18. In my Suite 2016, i drew a default exterior wall. Changed the siding material to aluminum siding. I copied that wall and pasted it, and it's the same.
  19. What are you trying to do? Copy/paste works as expected here.
  20. Suite has many limitations. See if this recent thread helps.