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What exterior style will this house be? What material will the roof be? No one can offer anything other than guesses without this info. Why the raised entry ceiling? If this were my house with a view out the back, I'd start with a lowered ceiling in the entry and let the ceiling heights raise as you near the views. Where in AZ? The backdrop looks like Sedona. I'd try to eliminate the angled wall. Unless you will have a flat roof over most of the house, it will complicate the build, and result in wasted interior space. If you are on a corner, you might try turning the garage 90 degrees. The plan has a huge amount of "circulation" space. I'm guessing you have a need, or just planning for wheel chair access, so I understand the wide hallways, but the entry, for example, is almost the size of the master bedroom. Have you considered a design professional -- Architect or other, to help you with the plan?

Suggestion for learning manual roofs. Start simple. One room, single floor structure. Simple hip and gable roofs. Progress to T and L shape structures to learn how various roofs intersect. Watch every YouTube video on manual roofs. There are several good ones. Once you are comfortable with the basics, go to Build Roof > Roof Styles and work through those. Practice, then practice some more. Then tackle a project like you have posted.

You can download from the Home Designer website. Have you tried that?

Your "Bonus Room" is just a room on the 2nd floor -- nothing special or unusual. Your stairs are drawn on the second floor and should be on the first. Draw walls around the stairwell, cut the stairs, go to 1st floor, paste hold position to move them down. For the roof, just take it one section at a time, setting pitch and hip/gable as needed. At some point, it may be easier to turn off autobuild and go manual.

Plans do not typically include this information. Only specific details are normally shown. What information are you wanting to convey to the builder?

You would need exterior walls to act as boundaries. Draw them in the standard mode, then switch to space planning. You can freely switch back and forth -- you are not required to "Build House". Once you have a plan you like, just add walls.

Not sure what you are asking, or what you are wanting to do.

Images of existing garage

See if you can open and work with this plan. I flipped a light from the library. If so, Make a similar plan with your light, and I'll flip it for you. Vikki Flip 1.plan

I figured you would have completed the construction and be working in your new shop this winter. Suggest you read the manual and watch a few videos to get an understanding of roofs. This should auto build, but with Pro, you have the option to do some manual as well. There are multiple good videos posted on YouTube that go over roofs. Resources for self help: The built in Help System (always a good place to start) Getting Started Knowledge Base YouTube

Each user has their own directory under the Users directory. Substitute User Name for the actual user name, and Home Designer Pro with whatever product you have, Users\User Name\Documents\Home Designer Pro You may copy or move files to the new directory. There also may be an option when installing the program to Install for All Users. This may create a directory elsewhere that everyone has access to.

Why are you wanting to do this?

I took a very quick look at the plan -- this may be a challenge without manual roofs. Not sure what the 1st level roof should look like, so I can't give specifics, but to get this, I broke the front wall and unchecked High Shed / Gable. Probably did some other things too.

Try pushing a soffit into a corner like you would for a corner cabinet. You could use multiple overlapping soffits, one for each side. You could use very thin soffits placed and sized to go behind the crown where you want it.

I'll suggest you look elsewhere for that type of information. This forum deals with building the software model and not the real thing. If you have a basic understanding of construction, you will see that it progresses generally from the bottom up, then outside in. Many books will teach you the basics, and some searching via Google will answer all your questions.

Are you asking about building the model in Home Designer, or actually constructing a home?

Check all the walls making sure they are connected to one another, and none are marked No Room Definition. And, please post images directly -- no need to make a PDF of an image.

I did not look at the plan, but guess the program sees a 2nd level room, so it's placing the roof at the proper place.

Wall heights are governed by ceiling height. I would guess the ceiling height in that space is higher than the surrounding area.

Fairly simple in Chief by creating a large casing, and changing the window inset. Not sure if Pro has this ability. You may need to model this is as a box bay.

Suggest contacting customer support.

You don't always get that. The program is asking for clarification, so if you don't get it, there is only one place for the roof plane to go. If it is in the wrong place, roof planes may be moved up or down as needed via their dialog or by using Transform/Replicate.

Not sure what you are asking. You draw manual roof planes where you want them, then adjust as needed.

Layers dialog.