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More Reply Options by the Post Button. At the bottom, Choose File, then Attach File. Make sure it's closed in Home Designer first.

I've gotten into the habit of copying what I have written before doing anything. Have lost too many long reply's myself.

The Tools>Display Options dialog just controls the display of various layers. Open a plan, then open the dialog. Find a line with a red + and a check mark to its right. Uncheck it, close the dialog, and whatever you unchecked will no longer be displayed. You can only edit something that is displayed. At some point, Tomathome drew a Gable/Roof line above that garage wall. That line tells the program to create a gable wall regardless of any other settings. He needs to delete that line, and to do so, needs to make it visible. If you don't understand, download the plan he posted above and see for yourself.

Here is what I thought of when i first looked at your plan several weeks ago. Needs work, but the idea is there. You loose the large laundry, but gain a secondary living space.

Post your current plan.

This has nothing to do with manual roofs. Does Suite have Gable/Roof Line? See my post #11. Can Suite do this? If so then the problem is an easy fix.

Turn off Auto Rebuild Roofs Start with this Then set the 2 1st floor outside walls to full gable. Then and Now build the roof You should be good, or close.

Try Tools>Display Options Go down to where all the roof layers are.

You don't mess with attic settings. Attics are defined by the ceiling below and the roof above. Pre cut studs for 8' walls are 92-5/8". Adding 4-1/2" for top and bottom plates (1 bottom, 2 top) gives you a 97-1/8" rough ceiling. 1/2" drywall on the ceiling and 8' of drywall leaves a 5/8 or less gap at the bottom.

You could modify the texture file that represents the tile you are using via Photoshop or a similar program.

All the rooms should be using default settings -- most (maybe all) of yours do not. Open a new plan, set your defaults for floor 1, then draw the walls using the standard exterior wall tool. You set the defaults via Edit>Default Settings>Floor. The only thing you need to change is ceiling height. Select each wall and change the wall type to 8" concrete, or whatever is best for your plan. You can create a new wall type if needed. Give this space a room type of Garage. Build the 2nd floor, setting defaults as needed in the structure dialog. The only thing you need to change is ceiling height. Build the 3rd floor. The only thing you need to change is ceiling height. I set it to 36", you need to set it so the roof builds at the correct elevation. Build the roof after setting walls to gable, and changing the default pitch in the build roof dialog. Your basic structure should be complete and correct. Take a cross section and doll house view to verify. Now add rooms, railings, stairs etc.

If you will review my previous post, all the info needed to get the plan back to normal so you can change the roof as needed is there. In general, set your floor defaults for each floor. Edit>Defaults>Floor. Go to each floor and change them to match your house. Then using Edit>Reset To Defaults, choose All Floors, select everything else and OK. In the Build Roof Dialog, uncheck Ignore (Top) 2nd Floor. Set the pitch to 3. Build the roof. You should get a hip roof everywhere, with a 3" pitch. Select the walls you want to be Gable, and change them. Select the walls that need the pitch changed and change it. Build the roof. You have rooms on the first floor that do not have Roof Over This Room checked. You will see this when the roof builds. Correct this. This is the roof showing a default build. This shows after gable walls and pitch have been changed. This shows the house with how the roof might look.

Found the problem. There is a Gable/Roof Line drawn above the garage door wall. It is not displayed, so you will need to turn on its layer to see it. Delete it and the roof will build correctly.

I laughed. Not at you, but with you. The second floor is 12" high. Reset it to whatever it should be. Change it in your defaults, then Edit>Reset To Default. Select Reset Roof Directives in Walls too while you are in this dialog. You have Ignore (Top) 2nd Floor checked -- uncheck it. Make sure the rooms on the first floor have Roof Over This Room checked. Gable wall directives go on the wall directly under the gable. Different roof pitches are not normally a problem.

I looked at the picture you posted and didn't read. Very strange on the roof. Select the top left garage window and copy it. Turn on Auto Rebuild Roofs. Grab the wall with the garage door and drag it back towards the house so the garage is 8 feet or so deep. Go to the 2nd floor and delete the gable wall that was over the garage door wall. Go to 1st floor and drag the garage door wall back. The roof should be fixed. Paste>Paste Hold Position to put the window back.

Try going to Default Settings>Rooms>Deck Room and changing the materials there. Then draw a new deck and see how it looks.

A contractor does not need to see a plan cluttered with visuals like cars in a garage, furniture etc. I'd suggest turning off these layers.

I deleted the roof and walls from the first floor up, then redrew as 2 floors, the second being Open Below. Then replaced the roof, and changed the siding.

I think with Suite you will need to use soffits where you want the stone. This issue has been discussed before here -- try a search for Suite stone sofffit. There are also many good articles in the Knowledge Base. Link is in the above post.

Is the dormer supposed to extend past the main wall of the house? What you are seeing is an automatically built wall extending up from below. You can see this from the attic level. It's always difficult to know how a model was built, and what is causing problems, so I'll suggest a way to draw it that I know works. I've attached a simple model of your house. Showing what I describe. MFDChief 1.plan Level 0 is for basements/foundations. You have an elevated living area -- like a garage apartment, so start your drawing on level 1. Set your floor defaults first (ceiling height etc) then draw the walls. I used 96". Build the next floor, making changes as needed in the Structure Dialog ( ceiling height etc). I used 109 1/8". Build the next floor, making changes as needed in the Structure Dialog ( ceiling height etc). I used 36" for a ceiling height because that looked about right.Set your walls to full gable and build the roof. Take a 3D view to make sure it looks correct. Still on the top floor, uncheck Ceiling Over This Room, draw in the railing and set the area as Open Below. Draw in the walls. Take a Doll House view and you should see the basic structure. Go down one floor and draw in the walls. Make sure they align with the walls above if they are supposed to. Draw the stair. Make Best Fit. Create the stairwell with the stairwell tool. Check the Doll House view to see that the stair built correctly. Down one floor and build the stair there. Once the roof shape is the way you want it, turn off Auto Rebuild Roofs and raise the ceiling height on the top floor. Once all this looks correct, then add the deck, windows, doors, furniture and finishes. You always want the structure correct first. And finally, suggest you practice this once, that is, don't worry about dimensions (but do use correct ceiling heights), just draw like I did, something that looks similar. Take some section views to confirm everything looks as it should.

Just checked and I can change the decking. Are you changing it via Materials, or painting it with the eye dropper?

You can automatically build the foundation wall, then add the piers as required. These are made up of slabs, or soffits, blocked together as a group, then placed as needed along the foundation wall.

Some of the problems are, I believe, related to how your walls are defined. Pocket Door -- Program thinks there is not enough room for the pocket if it's on the opposite side. Make the door much smaller, change the pocket, restore the size, push door as far as it will go in the direction of the pocket. Dotted Line -- that is the line showing where the roof intrudes into the room. There is a break in the ceiling plane at that point. Your front roof plane is lower at the fascia than the rear. Raise it to match. Bleeding Around Window -- I see this all the time, especially around doors. If it's bad enough, I place a very thin soffit to cover it up. Floor Covering -- In my typical interior wall, I see a very small amount of floor coming through. Play with your wall definition, or use a soffit to cover it. Vestibule Walls -- I got this to work, but not sure how. If you reverse the wall, putting the inside face out, it shows the lighter color on the outside. remove the wall between the vestibule and the house, and the color is correct. I did change the exterior wall definition making the foam as the main layer. I put the deleted wall back as an interior wall, then changed it to an exterior wall and all looked good. Cursor -- No idea. I'm running 10 too, but have not noticed a difference.

Will you have a basement? Are you wanting to show the wall just for the visual, or do you need to show details -- pier locations for example, for plan approval?

Likely you have lost the Room Definition for that room. Check that all walls are connected, and that none are marked No Room Definition.