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You're trying to do something the program doesn't want to do because of the way it's designed. What I've shown, and will try to describe will get you close. Suggest doing this in a practice plan first. Draw 4 walls to create a bathroom. Draw the 3 walls to form the shower using interior walls. Place a Doorway in the front wall. Turn off Casing and Threshold. Change the height so the bottom is lower than your finished floor, and it's high enough that it extends a bit above the ceiling. You should now have what looks like 2 side walls, with no front wall. Draw an interior wall a foot or so in front of the opening. Change it to a Glass Shower wall. Set it to No Room Definition and No Locate. Add a Slab Door, set it's thickness to 1/2", change the Exterior material to Glass, remove Casing and Threshold. You should have a full height glass wall with a door. In a camera view, select the wall, grab the handle on the top and drag it down to the correct height. Select the wall and place it within the opening. Adjust as needed. Place a soffit outside the opening. Adjust to 4.5" thick, set height etc. Move soffit into opening and adjust to create the half wall. Place a second soffit outside the opening. This will be used to apply the base molding to. Make 1/16" thick and as high as your molding. Move up against the previously placed soffit and apply the base molding. I would suggest using a Custom Backsplash where you want tile. This will give you more control than just painting the walls, and you may also need to use slabs or soffits as well, depending on how accurate you want to be. Post back with questions.

It's under Edit. Wall Intersections?

I'll vote for using a solid -- a slab, or soffit for example. Creating a room just to change an area of flooring seems to be overkill. Chief, for example, has a Floor Material Region (similar to a Custom Backsplash or Wall Material Region) just for this purpose.

So we are clear -- is this what you want to do?

Does your Railing Wall have the Follow Stairs option? You will find Wedge and Inverted Wedge shapes in the library to fill in as needed. Soffits are also good for fill in.

You can't. You will need to use the manual dimension tools.

Have you tried deleting that wall? I sometimes delete the entire attic level as it tends to accumulate unneeded automatically generate walls. The program will automatically rebuild the deleted walls that are really needed.

One way is to manually draw in the walls. Attic level, draw in an exterior wall to fill in the gap. Open it and check Attic Wall.

If you will search this forum, you will find at least one post explaining rugs. I imagine there is also a Knowledge Base article.

The engineering is strictly up to the user.

Also check wall alignment first to second floor. All the 2nd floor walls visible in the image i posted are not directly over the first floor walls. Use the Align Wall tool.

Still needs a good bit of work, but this shows what you can do by changing ceiling heights. I also added a wall for the highest gable.

Well done first post. I'd draw the bay in manually. The Bay Window tool is quick, but has many limitations. You will get a foundation under it, so at some point, you will need to turn off auto rebuild foundation and delete the unwanted walls. For the roof, remember ceiling heights control how the roof builds, so you will need to temporarily adjust them until the roof looks good, then turn off auto rebuild roofs., and set the ceiling heights back. The gables over the garage will be a challenge, I believe. Here is the results of a few adjustments.

Did you try replacing the wall as David suggested? Double click (or whatever you do on a Mac) on the section you want to change. Go to Wall Types, pick a unique one and see if it changes.

I imagine that (attic) wall is auto generated by the program. You need to replace it with the correct type -- whatever you used for the exterior wall type.

I'd raise the porch roof up as high as possible and then let the connections on either end fall where they may. I would then suggest the same thing, but cutting the main roof overhang off and connecting a new roof there. I guessed you were in Canada somewhere close to your actual location. Looks like I could walk from the airport , then on to the coast. It feels like Canada here. About 10" of snow on the ground and lows around 5 degrees F (-15 C) predicted over the next few days.

Can you open the item itself? Select it and Control-E. If so, there should be options there. I imagine there are other items on that layer that you do not want to change, so you probably don't want to make a change at the layer level.

When you select them, the layer they are on is displayed in the status bar. They may be on a generic layer with other things you don't want to turn off, so you could try changing the text to be white and very small, for example.

It's neat that there is a family connection with the house. I was wanting to see pictures of the real thing. Here is another idea. I tried not to change much, just rearrange a bit. My thinking on the outside was to maintain an as built look, so looking at the house, the addition looks like part of the original house, and not an add on. Looks like you will have a bit of exposed foundation, and if you wanted to use some rock, that would be the place. If you use the upstairs as bedrooms, I'd encourage you to consider opening them up a bit. Don't know about your location, but here, I'd need to bring them up to code standards for access and egress. It will be less expensive in the long run to do the work along with the addition, rather than wait.

Thanks Bruce. Looks good. Manual roofs take practice. You should be able to auto build this roof too -- just a matter of getting all the settings correct. I'm not generally a fan of dormers, but I think 2 would add something to your front elevation, and give those "bedrooms" on the 2nd floor some more light and space. I'd stay away from sticking rock randomly on the house -- because that's what it will look like. Also consider trying to minimize the garage, maybe painting the door a bit lighter or darker than the siding. The focus should be on the entrance. I'm guessing your addition is the hip roofed space on the left? It really needs a gable roof to match the older part of the house.

What do you want it to look like?