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The easiest way is to Build>Railing and Deck>Polygon Shaped Deck Enter the parameters and create the deck. Open the deck room and change the room type. You can also layout using CAD. Draw lines where you want the exterior main layer of your walls. Walls will easily snap to these lines -- you may need to add some Allowed Angles. Add a center point, draw a single wall, use Transform/Replicate to copy and rotate it about the point.

Turn on Temporary Dimensions. Video on Temporary Dimensions Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Po5mVf5QnO0

Manual roof plane, or use an Open Below room to automatically get the roof. What's the problem? ------- And it's easier for people like me, and probably better for you if you ask clear, easily identifiable questions. For example: How do I add the eyebrow roofs as shown in the picture. Resources for self help: The built in Help System (always a good place to start) Getting Started Knowledge Base YouTube Home Designer - Getting Started - Setting Preferences and Defaults Watch on YouTube: http://youtu.be/s-TcAHsiMjg?hd=1

Watch on YouTube: http://youtu.be/JzNTYLAitb8?hd=1

Paint the material you want on the roof.

You might post in Suggestions, and provide a good description of how you would like things to work. You know how walls and roofs work now, so your suggestions probably should work within that framework.

Different how? When you have Auto Build on, changes apply everywhere.

Thanks. That's a common question asked by Suite and Architectural users. Have you searched the forum for ideas? Here is a video on search tips -- done on ChiefTalk, but HomeTalk is the same.

Edit>Delete Objects Choose Deck Framing

Is this checked? If so, it probably should not be as it's an advanced option that most users will never need. Go to Edit>Delete Objects Select Roof Baseline Polylines and then Delete. If it's not checked attach the plan file -- close Pro first and I'll have a look. And generally, when you have a problem like this, try to simplify in a new plan. Draw a single room, make sure the auto roof builder is on, then set a wall to Full Gable. Does it work?

Is Auto Rebuild Roofs checked?

Open Help, search panels, read results of search.

Home Designer products do not have a project browser.

If you are following instructions, it's helpful to provide a link. One of these?

Watch on YouTube: http://youtu.be/sny8NWxamYQ?hd=1

These settings change how the user interface displays things, not how things are displayed on the plan.

A quick search in Help ...

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You can help yourself by reading up on default settings. Your roof defaults show 10:12 pitch, but no roof planes have that pitch -- just as an example. Your floor for the main house is best set at 0, and then you adjust the terrain up or down. Lots of small things that add up to problems. It's best to leave Auto Rebuild roofs on too so any changes you make are obvious. I changed a couple of settings and built the roof.

I rebuilt the roof. No changes.

HD locks the file while it's open, so the upload will fail. Once the file is uploaded, you can open it and go to work.

With Architectural, you don't have the options to do this easily. Set the rooms in the slab building to Open Below and build the foundation. Delete the unwanted foundation walls and draw in your own slab (slab with footing if needed). For your shed roof, one wall is Hip, the opposite wall is High Shed Gable, and the other 2 are Full Gable.

Not something I normally need to do. Having the plan file might help to troubleshoot. Close Pro before attaching.

It's not clear to me what your house looks like. Roofs build over rooms, whose height is controlled by the ceiling height. There is also an Attic room type which has special properties related to roofs. Sometimes you need to create interior spaces to control the roof using walls and ceiling heights that do not represent the actual house. Once the roof is correct, turn off Auto Rebuild and redraw the interior to be correct. Attaching your plan file (close the program first) is also helpful for the best help.