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Edit>Reset To Defaults Choose all floors and Roof Directives In Walls. You should now have a hip roof. Set the wall to gable and see if it builds correctly.

It must be the basement access. Try pulling it away from the house and see what happens.

You really need a 2nd floor just over those 2 rooms. That should clean up the walls. You may also need to pull the roof planes back a bit.

I might change the garage area to add a bit of interest to the space. I would think carefully about getting in and out of the garages with your vehicles. The wall to the courtyard etc. I envisioned a circular drive approaching as you have shown, then exiting past the 3 car garage. That's it. Auto roofs work well, but for complex roofs, manual mods are usually needed. The wine cellar has a 16' ceiling. Is that what you want? The raised area over the living room now extends over the closet and wine cellar -- is that correct? You also have walls and roof that are out of alignment.

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You may override the default pitch -- look in the Wall settings. For your gable, you would need to create a room behind it, set the pitch on the walls -- the 2 walls where the fascia would be if there were no other roof. The problem is getting the gable and eve fascia to connect. I'm using products that have manual roof tools making things like this simple, so I'm not as familiar as others with the automatic roofs.

Place 2 wall breaks in the front wall where you want the gable. You now have a front wall with 3 sections. Open the center one and set it as Full Gable. Thanks for posting an image of what you want to model, and for filling out your signature. It's also very helpful to see how far you have come -- posting images (screen captures) and or your plan file is generally good. Resources for self help: The built in Help System (always a good place to start) Getting Started Knowledge Base YouTube

You may paint them, but that will turn off auto rebuild framing. Or change the Fascia Material in defaults.

Do you have a specific question? Have you built the basic house and roof?

I drew them manually, but the program will do it with auto rebuild roofs on. You will need to make the deck the same width as the living space.

Do you understand manual roofs? You may be able to do this with auto roofs. Remember, roofs build over rooms, so to start, create a Porch room on the 2nd floor, adjusting the floor and ceiling heights so they are correct. If your roof is correct, you can just drag the roof plane down to cover the porch as needed. You will need to change some materials, add steps etc.

You might post images of what you have now, or your plan file for the best suggestions.

Except for this one thing, is your roof correct? The easiest way is to do it manually.

Forgot to say -- yes. There is a second way that's tedious and time consuming, but will give the most accurate representation. It uses a separate roof plane for the overhang. Stop the primary roof plane at the outer wall edge. Its structure represents reality. Use a 2nd roof plane for the overhang -- T&G instead of OSB for sheathing, larger framing members to represent the exposed framing etc.

Manual roofs just take a bit of practice. They may be moved around in many ways, using Copy/Reflect About, or Transform/Replicate for example. Just need to think about where the edges need to be to connect to an adjoining plane. Learning to place breaks in edges is key, and really helps when connecting planes with different slope. There are good videos on YouTube. Search for advanced roof.

It depends on how the truss is built. You need to know the Heel Height. One big advantage to auto building the roof, is things like this are easy to change. Although the exterior appearance will change -- the entire roof structure will move up or down. Try it with that setting, build framing, take a cross section and see how it looks. You might need a Raised Heel truss. If the truss is built like the lower one, a 3-1/2" rafter should work.

For manual roofs. 1) In plan, align the bottom of the blue with the top of the red. Take the ridge height from red, open blue, lock the pitch, set the fascia height to match the red ridge height. This lowers blue, and makes the 2 planes join correctly. Pull the blue ridge back a bit and join it at the ridge. 2) Decide how the green roof needs to join to blue and red. I'll assume the fascia heights should match green and red. Set the overhang on green. Get the fascia height from red, open green, lock pitch and change the fascia height. Pull the edge of green facing blue back -- you want to give it room to join. Place a break along that edge and pull it out to form a V. You want to guide the program, and adding breaks is needed especially where you have different pitches. Work your way around manually shaping each plane to get it close, then join them with the program.

I think doing an auto build is the best way to get started. Looking at the plan, it needs to be cleaned up before working on the roof. In a copy of your plan... Start by setting all your defaults. Structure and Roof. Then Edit>Reset To Defaults. Select All Floors, check all the boxes, then OK. Manually set ceiling heights as required in rooms where it's non standard. Select all the walls you want gabled, and set them as Full Gable. Build the roof. You should be very close. Remember, roofs build over rooms, ceiling heights control the position of the roof above.

I don't know a simple, one click way to do this, although there may be. In Layer Display Options, you may change color and line weight, which is what I did for the plan in the image. I left a few things with their original settings so they would show. You should be able to multi select items and change color for all at once. In Chief Architect, I could create a unique layer set with these settings, and simply apply them as needed. With Pro, I believe, they will need to be changed as required, and cannot be saved.

Have you tried auto building the roof? I easily came very close, and could have done better with a bit more effort. For any complex roof, I'll always start with an auto build to see if it's close, then manually modify as needed.

Edit>Delete Objects Choose the Scope and what to delete (dimensions). This will turn off any Auto Dimensions.

Couple of ideas. All need refinement. And a suggestion. Get the floor plan as you want before working on the roof.

I never use the Dormer tools, instead drawing in my own. With Pro, you have all the tools to do so. Much less frustrating than trying to get the auto dormers to behave.

Right dormer spaced to match left. Right dormer moved as far to the left as it will go. You do have an unused dormer on the 2nd floor that should be deleted, but I don't think it's causing problems with the one that is visible.