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Roofs build over rooms, so you need to create rooms with different ceiling heights (ceiling height controls wall height). Any existing walls may be in the way, so suggest you remove them and just focus on the roof. Once it's perfect, turn off auto rebuild roofs, remove temporary walls and draw in what's really there.

Select one from the library and place it.

Open Help and search for corner. You will need to place short columns manually.

How did you build the porch roof?

Have you looked at any of the programs that can read them? Maybe they could export to a format Pro can use.

You normally show both floors on a plot plan. Is there a reason you need to show the 2nd floor separately?

That's not an option. You will need to draw the beam in manually.

You won't be able to do a consistent radius like this with Pro. What you can do is make one big window, then fill in the missing parts manually.

Did you find Full, Left and Right Arch?

Open the window and review the settings -- you should see something obvious.

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You probably don't need the 2nd floor. I did not use one and you can see I had no gaps.

Select the Layout Box, Open Object, suppress the label.

Take another look at your dimension defaults. There are various types of dimensions, so saying which one you are asking about is helpful.

Did you look at the Knowledge Base article? Is this what you want?

Here is a video on creating a custom template. I'd just copy the default template from the 2020 folder and use it to create a new one.

Ceiling Plane

As there are multiple camera types, it's helpful to say which one you are using. Search Help for "show lower" with the quotes.

What don't you understand? Once you have a plan, the 3D part is one click away. For help, see the Chief YouTube channel linked above. Look for the hour long Home Designer webinars which go over the process start to finish.

Yes you do.

Thanks for the update. Typical response from support. They confirm there is a difference, which we already knew, but no reason for why, or no confirmation that's it is a problem.

Look under the View menu. Architects generally create plans from your ideas and needs. You would not take a plan you designed to an architect, rather you would choose a draftsman. In any case, many will want to redraw so they take responsibility for the outcome as it will be associated with them and not you. There are architects and draftsman that use Chief Architect, and you can find someone to work on your project by posting on ChiefTalk in the Seeking Services section. If your plan requires engineering, it probably needs to be in dxf or dwg (AutoCad) format.

Textures, like the block you are asking about are simply image files that are tiled over an object. The image may be stretched or compressed in the X and Y direction to change its appearance.