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X9 is in Beta now, and they usually have discounts for upgrades, including from Pro, just before the newest version is released, which should be next month. I'd contact sales to get the particulars. The Chief forum is ChiefTalk.

Here is a simple example. Various columns, made quickly and easily in Chief. And

I can't offer suggestions as to why, but just insert a doorway in the railing. That's what the software does automatically.

Pro and Premier work the same, and I assume they are derived from the same codebase. Premier has additional tools that make many things easier, and allow you to do some things that are impossible in the Home Designer products. Premier is really for Architects or others where it's used as a tool in their business. There are plenty of threads on ChiefTalk from former and sometimes concurrent AutoCAD users, mostly saying how much better Chief is for residential, but wishing it showed the maturity of AutoCAD. Although I use the software for my business, it's mostly an expensive toy, as I could get by with Pro. They do offer a month to month rental of Chief, and if you continue paying, you will own it. You may also resell Chief, transferring the license to someone else. They also offer a free trial, so you may see for yourself.

Auto built. You can see the ridge in the center of the upper roof.

It sounds like you are familiar with the manual roof tools. The baseline of the shed roof needs to be over the rear wall -- that is 90 degrees from where it is in the first plan you posted. Does that make sense? Thinking about the plan first posted here, select the shed part of the roof and rotate it 90 degrees, then review it in a camera view. Delete it and manually draw it starting over the rear wall. Don't take this as a jab at you, but this seems so obvious to me. Draw a roof plane that slopes in the wrong direction, delete it and draw it 90 or 180 degrees from the first try. I assume the problem is more than it is. To auto build, all the walls need to have the correct directive, and rooms need to have the correct room height. You were on the right track, just needed to add for example, High Shed/Gable to the front porch wall, and to raise the ceiling on the porch. The issue with doing this automatically is the upper roof. Because the common wall will be set to High Shed/Gable, the upper roof will build incorrectly. If I were doing this roof, I would auto build the roof so the upper roof is correct, turn off auto rebuild roofs, delete and draw manually the lower roof.

David and myself are not trying to be difficult, simply trying to point you in the correct direction so you may learn for yourself. We don't know how much time and effort you have spent on this problem, because you did not say. You have yet to tell us if you are doing these roof planes manually or automatically, clearly something that makes a difference in helping you. Have you tried starting a new plan, building a 1 room rectangular structure and putting a roof on it? That's generally how I learn, by breaking a problem down to its basics and then applying what I have learned to the larger problem.

You have not said if you are drawing these roofs yourself, or trying to auto build. Help has clear instructions on building a shed roof.

Use a Slab instead.

Read up on Shed roofs. You should be able to auto build it, but drawing one manually is really easy too. For the higher roof, what you have now is a low slope hip -- is that what you want? In in any case, you will need to manually pull the roof planes back from the parapet walls. Search the Knowledge Base and this forum for parapet walls.

1) It would help to state what is wrong with what you have now. I'm guessing the lower roof slopes in the wrong direction? 2) This would be a very easy roof to do manually, if not already done so.

Select the door, adjust using dimensions.

Where are you trying to place the soffit? Are you able to place it outside the structure?

I checked in a copy of Suite which I believe has the same roof options as Architectural. Could not get different materials on 2 buildings. This has been discussed on the forum sometime in the past, so searching may find a better answer. No way to separate buildings. Pro, with its advanced roof tools can do this.

Make sure the Painter Component Mode is correct. Should be Component.

Pick your material, apply it to the roof.

I am certain I worked on someones plan recently that showed these, but cannot find it. The 3D Warehouse is a good source of things like this. There is a thread on this forum with links to 3rd party symbols you can add to your model -- you will need to search for it.

Even though the topics are similar, you should start a new thread. Have you tried just lowering the floor of the shower space?

I should say former cabinetmaker. My last shop was 12,000 sq ft, but that was 25 years ago. Here is a short story about OPM (other peoples measurements) that happened long ago. I was in a small town, so there was a good bit of walk ins with small jobs -- broken drawers, loose chair legs etc. One day a customer arrived with a load of interior shutters she wanted sized to fit her windows. She assured me she had measured carefully, and produced a list with exact dimensions for each one. We agreed on a price, and she would return the following day to pick them up. I cut them as instructed, she picked them up, happy that it only took one day. Several days later, she returned with one shutter in hand, and on seeing her, assumed it needed a bit more removed. "Young man, I gave you my measurements, and every shutter is wrong. The rest are in my car, what are you going to do?" I calmly asked what the correct dimension should be for this shutter, she produced her list and gave me the measurement. I produced my tape measure, and the shutter measured exactly what it should. She immediately said there was something wrong with my tape, and after digging around in her purse, produced her own tape -- a cloth sewing tape. I needed to gather up other tapes and measuring instruments from around the shop to convince her that her tape was incorrect. She was lucky as her measurements were long, the shutters were all too big.

Have you looked at a material list? The program gives you a line item for each cabinet -- no details on what it actually looks like or how it's constructed. Exactly. That's their job, and something they would do anyway (speaking as a cabinetmaker). As for your cabinet, is this what you want?

You can use a cabinet. Make it 3/4" deep so all you see is the door. Under materials, you can make parts Opening No Material too. For Face frame cabinets, you can overlap them to get uniform gaps. You get extra lines in some views, but standard views are seamless.

Say you have a drawer over a door. To make the drawer larger, try making the door smaller, or the other way around. I jut did this and found another bug. The open space is specified to have 1 shelf, but shows more.

This looks like a bug, but here is how to make it work. Select the drawer and split it Horizontally making 2 skinny drawers one above the other. Now delete one of the drawers, and one of the spacers. The remaining drawer will return to its original size and the height will be editable.

Have you tried removing the fixture (sink?) in the top?