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Mark the gable walls as "Full Gable". See the Wall Specification dialog.

I am confused! So this is just a guess.

Draw a wall down the center of the bonus room parallel to the ridge, about the center of the room.

Set the back room to have a ceiling height of 6'.

Build roofs. Turn off auto rebuild roofs if it is on. Delete the wall.

Take a look at this one. Should be fairly clean. 

I added a soffit above the front porch to hide the framing. Also created a room for the porch to get the ceiling height down.

Fixed the roof return issue in front by drawing a manual roof return.

Fixed a wall that wanted to protrude through the roof -- look at a Doll House view of the first floor to see it. just selected it and dragged it down.

Sounds like you know what you need better than anyone else.

We'll help with the plan. 

Get something together and post it with a couple of questions.

I made one change that seemed to fix everything -- OK almost everything. It caused a problem, but it should be a simple fix.

Looking at a Doll House view, I noticed the dining room showed walls lower than the rest of the 1st floor. I added the height of the missing second floor, floor structure, or 12 5/8" to the height of the room. I then set the Open Below room above to it's default height. This brought the walls to the correct height and corrected all the artifacts.

The area over the front door needs work, but it's looking better.

It's really difficult looking at a plan like this. So many things to consider -- so many settings that have a cascading effect. And this is not a simple plan.

And then there are all the things HD does, or does not do. 

The crown is an easy fix too. Just add 6" to the Height to Top.

Select the interior wall and drag it to cover. Not visible in standard view, but it shows in vector.

I remember this plan.



Made lots of small changes to the roofs and cleaned up many of the artifacts on the inside and outside.



Also fixed the siding on the interior wall in the library.



Many of the walls were not aligned between floors.



Still more work to do, but this should get you started.

You mentioned wheelchair access before. Bathroom doors should open out. Someone falling in the bathroom could block the door denying quick entry by help.

Your interior doors are interior doors. If you are asking because you see the Exterior I have circled, that is the program showing one side of the door. This is a 3D view and may be rotated around to see the other side.

To change the doors, select and use the Library button to choose one.

To change all the doors in the plan at once, click on the door icon as if you wanted to place one. Hold the Shift key and marquee around the plan. Ctrl-E to open the Door Specification dialog. Click Library and choose a new style.

When you are beginning a new plan, you may set up your defaults, and doors placed afterwards will match them.

>>> Eventually, after I get the original plan drawn, I want to make a 2nd story living area in the void space of the gable roof structure.

If you intend to add a second floor, do it now -- it's the way the program works. 

Once you get your floor and ceiling heights correct, then work on the roof.

Looks like it's time for an upgrade 

Someone with Suite or Architectural will need to answer for those titles. 

Do you see slabs and/or soffits? They may be used too.

You may Lock things like walls so they cannot be selected.

Typically called "z-fighting".

Here is some info from a prior post. 

https://hometalk.chiefarchitect.com/index.php?/topic/469-cheif-wrap-layer-visable-through-siding-in-3d-perspective-full-overview/?hl=z-fighting#entry2526

Which title do you have -- Suite, Pro etc?

See the image. Click on the doors, then the Delete button.

I used a full height on the right, shortened to base high. Needs some more work to make it look correct.

The microwave on the left is in a base cabinet rotated to go in the corner.

http://video.homedesigner.chiefarchitect.com/

http://www.homedesignersoftware.com/search/

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7jB5YPuzy5utIP1tF3w2mQ

https://www.youtube.com/user/c16467/search?query=layout

CAD > Points > Place Point

Place a point at the center of your light. Use the Point to Point Dimension tool to go from the point to a wall.

You can then delete the temporary point if your wish.

My Mom had a place that was similar. The image roughly shows how her guest bedroom and bath were configured.

Just an idea -- nothing wrong with your plan.

The main room is defined as Open Below. Change it to something else.

Go to basement, select stairs, use Auto Stairwell tool to create the stairwell.

Thanks for reporting back Jason. So many come, ask a question or 2, then disappear. We never know if we helped.

You will have a nice place there when complete.

I don't believe you can show the roof structure you describe in framing view.

You should be able to define a roof structure just like defining a wall, but I don't believe you can.

You can show something similar from inside.

View>Library Browser

or Ctrl+L