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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.

I'd ask Tech Support.

No clue what I'm looking at or what you need to do, but I'll guess. The railing has created a room definition so I'm seeing a floor structure. Post a 3D picture and or the plan for best help.

Yes, and I'd hate to try modeling that with Pro -- don't know how you are doing it with Suite.

Do you have Roof Cuts Wall At Bottom?

Have you tried deleting it? Post the plan?

If you pull the roof away in a 3D view, the hole may be selected.

Not sure why you can no longer select the openings, which are clearly still there. You could create your own. See https://www.homedesignersoftware.com/support/article/KB-00396/building-a-manual-dormer-in-home-designer-pro.html

First, set the defaults correctly Edit>Default Settings>Floor You will need to do this for each floor, so while in plan view, select a floor, then change its defaults. Then Edit>Reset To Defaults Select All Floors and the additional items you want to reset. This may do what you need. If not, post back.

My advice. Don't worry about the details of the foundation right now. Don't do a terrain or try to get the garage positioned on the lot. Start by setting your defaults -- specifically ceiling height. The accepted way to model with this software is to begin by drawing walls. Yours is a one room structure, so once you have 4 walls creating a room, set it to a room type of Garage with a monolithic slab. Build a roof, add doors and windows, take a 3D view. You don't need exact dimensions -- just some practice using the software, seeing what it will do. Use the software to visualize the garage and addition, and once you have a design, then focus on the details. The drawings I posted in your other thread took about 5 minutes each, because they were just concepts. There are plenty of good videos on YouTube, spend some time watching, practice a bit, then watch some more. When you build your foundation, there is a dialog where you can change settings (and a Help button). Draw a one room structure, build a foundation and see how your foundation settings look. As for your questions, no Chief Architect product will do pitched slabs. There are workarounds, but common practice is to add a note on your construction drawings. I posted Pro 2105 documentation in this thread. Lots of good info there too.

I was just wondering about this same thing, and believe you will need to manually draw it in as a detail.

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See the 2nd image.

This one is a single floor. Vary the ceiling heights to get the roof planes to line up.

How big (footprint)? What about ceiling height? What will you use the space for? Will it need garage doors?

No time limit that I know of. The only restriction is that you cannot save your work.

Download the trial and see if it works for you. There is no AAC wall, but you can create a new wall type to represent one. No passive solar tools.

Which direction will you be extending the garage?

and home-designer-pro-2015-users-guide.zip

Here are the 3 documents I have for pro 2015. home-designer-pro-2015-users-guide-roof-tutorial.zip home-designer-pro-2015-reference-manual.zip