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Set the space (room) on the second floor as Open Below. Search the programs Help system for more info on Open Below.

New settings.

Like this?

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Here is one with the dormers done. These are all Auto Dormers that have been exploded.

Foothills 7660 Franklin Road (2) Eric New.plan

I did it manually. The program is good about joining rood planes, so the front garage roof plane joined easily to the front house roof plane. The fascia height was I think an inch different, but I changed the garage to match the house. 

Draw in a small roof plane on the back of the connector space and join it to the rear garage roof plane. Drag it to the house wall. Then drag it up to the ridge.

Connect up the ridge -- the hard part on this one.

What I said above will work, it's just tricky. This one is manual.

I don't understand why an auto dormer will not work. I placed one on the garage, changed the roof to a shed, resized it, then exploded it to change the window.

Looks correct inside and out.

Don't know how you work with everything black. 

Here is the roof fixed. Too many problems with the dormers to quickly fix and I need to get to a job. Will look again later today if no one else has.

Foothills 7660 Franklin Road (2) e.plan

If the model is not set up to auto build correctly, try this.

Auto build the roof after setting pitch and overhangs properly.

Copy the roof planes over the garage and connector space.

Control Z to undo the auto build roof.

Paste Hold Position to put the auto generated roof planes back over the garage.

I don't know how. I don't deal with basements so not something I'm familiar with.

You have a stemwall set to 3000mm, and a ceiling at 2000mm, giving you a 1000mm wall below. Shows clearly in the Room Specification>Structure graphic.

Do you have a picture or drawing of what you are modeling?

You could select the entire second floor and move it into place. Press F9 to show the reference display.

Or just delete the 2nd floor and redraw. Build>Floor>Build New Floor

 "Form joint/corner in a selected line." function in the menu

Which menu?

The simple solution is to position a slab over the space.

Turn on auto build roofs. The program will build this correctly.

The section of wall that needs to be split by the roof -- to close in the gap shown but not extend to the floor inside needs to be set as shown in the image.

Pull the roof planes back a bit, break the wall if needed, change the setting, then move the roof planes back.

Check on the inside how it looks.

The settings for your level 0 rooms are creating the walls below the piers. Review the graphic on the structure panel to see what needs to be changed.

With Pro, you can draw whatever roof you need, place walls and windows as needed. Do you have a picture of what you want to model?

And please try 1 question, or at least one subject per post. 

I'll assume you are stuck joining the 2 cabinets together, and I'm not sure how to describe the process other than "start by joining the 2 cabinets together".

Hopefully someone will make a video.

Is this the basics of what you are after?

What specifically are you having an issue with? 

A carport is just like a porch. The software needs a room to build a roof over.

Use a Room Divider to outline the area of the carport, making sure you create a room. Set the room as a Porch and you will get a 4" concrete slab and roof.

Post the plan file for more help. Make sure it's closed in Home Designer before posting.

Only Pro has manual roofs, and attaching the plan almost always helps.

See the image for a fix. Or you can set the 2 little triangle shaped rooms to Open Below.

Look in the Knowledge Base under Cabinets to learn about corner cabinets.

What happens when you build the roof?

If you want a simple flat panel, use a partition from the cabinet menu.

You can create a fancier version using a cabinet.