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  1. I tried using standard roof tools and was able to get a very flat hip roof over the family room, but not the bedroom.

     

    I suspect using invisible walls and splitting others will get you close.

     

    I started by turning off roofs for the flat roofed portion.

     

    Are you just looking for a representation of the house, or is it important that it be as accurate as possible?

  2. You may copy your plan and then paste into a new plan created with a different template. 

     

    You will loose some information, like room definitions. 

     

    I have made the suggestion that it should be easy to apply a style to any plan changing the look of various things.

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  3. Once you apply your chosen material to a section of soffit, you may save that soffit to your Library (right click - add to Library). Then it is available to use as you would a normal soffit, only with your material already applied.

     

    Also, once a material is selected in the library browser, it is available to apply, so a click in the library browser, then a click on the surface to apply.

  4. Image shows a door placed where it opens between 2 floors. I added the door and positioned it (control-drag) where I wanted it in a 3D view. Initial placement has to be on one floor or the other, but then you may move it wherever you like.

  5. The answer is in your description. Different pitch for each side of the gable.

     

    Change the pitch in the wall specification dialog for the wall the roof plane is resting on to match your roof.

     

    I'd also call your vertex a ridge.

     

     

  6. There is a "Follow Stairs" check box, but it seems to be grayed out by default which is why I missed it (image 1). Follow Stairs shows checked in the image, but only because I had already checked it. It would not be checked if starting from scratch.

     

    The "Specify Railing" check box is checked, but if you uncheck it, then check it, the entire "Build From" area, including the "Follow Stairs" check box becomes available (image 2).

     

    You can then check it, and the wall, or railing will follow the slope of the stairs.

     

    Notice in image 3, how the lower part of the wall follows up one way (after breaking the wall), and the upper part follows in the opposite direction. I created the center wall on the first floor, and the "Follow Stairs" option caused it to extend into the 2nd floor space.

     

    -- Eric

  7. Click on the stairs and then on the Auto Stairwell Tool.

     

    The error message tells you what is needed.

     

    Go up one level and see there are railings that have been built (image 1).

     

    The railing needs to be manually connected to the left wall (image 2). I am guessing because the upper and lower walls are not aligned.

     

    Now you have completed the connection and made a room. Change type to Open Below.

     

    See image 3.

     

    Arn't stairs fun  :)

     

    -- Eric