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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

Do you have Wall Covering?

Or Pony Walls

Delete what you have. draw the two stair sections, then just click where the landing should be and one will be placed automatically.

I did not catch you were doing them with soffits.  Framing view won't help.

Could you show a framing view?

Have you checked the library?

Could you reference the Reference Manual and the link to a video?

I've done entire kitchens, and groups of furniture, but not windows.

I agree with Robyn. Chief has trial versions for all the products, and an easy upgrade path to the more expensive titles.

I chose Pro over the other Home Designer options because it does what I need and the others did not. I also considered Chief Premier, but could not justify the cost difference.

I'm happy with 8.1. I use a program called Start8 that makes it more like 7.

I don't think you can do this with Pro. You need to be able to add items to a group and then save the group to the library.

For the missing gable wall -- delete the invisible wall on the second floor and it will rebuild correctly.

That's the way ceiling height is set for this type of structure -- raising it after building the roof.

After building the foundation, I deleted the parts I did not want -- forgot to include that above.

Then specified a slab in the garage. Changed the slab height to lower it.

You could also specify no floor, and draw in a slab.

Like this?

Turn on the slab, then build the foundation.

File > Save As

What is your "pier construction"? You might have a slab or grade beam on piers, or piers that protrude from the ground with beams on top.

Delete that roof plane.

Add the walls -- railing, room divider etc that enclose the open area left of the small garage.

You may adjust the ceiling height of this space which will control the roof.

Now add a manual roof plane starting at the railing wall on the left. Drag it up so it connects with the wall on the large garage. Size as needed.

If you double click on a roof plane you get its Roof Plane Specification dialog where you may change settings.

If you don't have a Custom Backsplash tool (found under the Cabinet tools) try a Soffit. It may be reshaped and covered with a material of your choice.

@DJP

This image shows the upper wall sitting on the main roof plane. Is this what your were referring to?

@DJP

Placed a garage door in the wall. Notice how the dashed outline representing the door in its up position is outside the building?

Here is the outside wall after adding the garage door. That window in in the attic, so what is it doing there? There is no attic as all rooms have no ceiling.

Windows also go in backwards on some walls, like the window on the far right that you corrected in your video (which is also in the attic).

This is what the OP was asking about, and why I suggested redrawing.