Muttley000

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  1. 22 hours ago, solver said:

    Rooms set as Attic have special properties -- read in Help.

     

    Set the 3rd floor attic room to Unspecified and the roof will change.

    Changed it but the roof still looks the same

     

    12 hours ago, DavidJPotter said:

    The key is to turn OFF "Auto Build Roof" command in the "Build Roof" Dialog when you have achieved the roof design you wish. That done, changing the ceiling heights in individual rooms will then have no effect or change your existing roof system.

     

    DJP

    Thant makes sense to me but I will need to get the roof back before I can do that, or should I go back and lower all the ceilings first then undo auto rebuild roofs?

  2. 23 hours ago, solver said:

    I've not looked at the plan, but try this.

     

    Open defaults and go to Floors. Set your floor 1 and 2 defaults so they are correct for the existing house.

     

    Then Edit>Reset To Defaults

     

    Choose All Floors and Floor and Ceiling heights.

     

    This should make everything consistent. Now go to each of the 2nd level rooms in the addition and change the Ceiling Below value, then the Rough Ceiling (in that order). 

     

    Post back with problems.

    This seems to have worked!  Not all of the rooms on the second floor allowed me to change the ceiling below value because it was greyed out, but I was able to manually change values until I got it right.  I still have some weird roof problem but I think it best to address that in another thread.  I have modified the name of this thread slightly to better describe what the issue was in hopes that someone else will find the answer they need.  Thank you again @solver

  3. 3 minutes ago, solver said:

     

    Are you supposed to have several different floor levels?

     

     

    Are you supposed to have different heights?

     

     

    The original part of the house is the southernmost square. The floors and ceilings in this part should be the same and I think they are accurate. The rest of the building is an addition and all of the first story floors should be at the same level as the original house. The second story floors in the addition should all be the same with what is yielded by a 100” finished ceiling height in the family room section of story 1. I realize the second story floors will end up a step up from the original house.  Appreciate the reply!

  4. I have several different floor levels on the second floor and am having trouble sorting them out.  I believe this si making my roof messed up also.  The ceilings are several different heights.  Can someone tell me where I went wrong?  I am not awesome with the software and have dozens of hours trying to draw an addition which is the North half of the house.  Please tell me I don't have it so goofed up I need to start over!

    Proposed_House_Plan_D.plan

  5. I don't want to draw exterior walls or railings though, I just want it to fasten to the wall with brackets like the picture.  I haven't been able to identify a way to do that yet.

     

  6. 1 hour ago, solver said:

     

    What "odd thing" are you asking about?

    In the bottom of the two pictures the roof above the section with windows flips from having a peak in the middle to continuing upwards.

  7. On 3/26/2019 at 9:02 PM, LawB10 said:

    Is this what you trying to do?

    I lowered the third floor ceiling height to 0"

    The second floor ceiling height to 88"

    Created a second floor over the Kitchen and lowered the ceiling height to 27"

    The Pitch on the Porch is 3" There was no need for knee walls.

     

    Turned off Auto rebuild roofs and checked the Default ceiling heights.

     

    225037115_Houseplan1.thumb.jpg.7a700b2ecc3a86a228cc5b0e3d782b92.jpgHouse plan - 1.plan

     

    House plan.png

    Very close, thank you for the help!  I love the program, but the learning curve is proving to be a little steeper than I expected.

  8. 19 minutes ago, solver said:

    Learning about manual roofs will be helpful. For example, there is a tool that will move one roof plane so it's coplanar with another.

    Best place to pick up that information in your opinion is where??

  9. I am designing an addition onto our house.  There are 3 things I am struggling with as I work on the kitchen area which is represented in the area by the full gable wall with no windows in it in this picture.  First, what is the proper way to make the roof meet up with the second story roof (The two story section behind the kitchen is part of the same project.)  Second, the bump out that is the full gabled section is just a foot wide bump out that will have a tall window in it, I want to make the peak of this higher so that it is nearly as tall as the original part of the house represented by the section with the windows already in it.  Third, and maybe it gets fixed automatically when one of the first two issues is taken care of, but for some reason there is a ridge cap from what appears to be a remnant of a hip roof over the kitchen I cant seem to get rid of.  

    Kitchen Roof Issue.jpg

    Proposed House Plan.plan

  10. This small wall on my porch is killing me.  I'm sure it is in the help somewhere but I must not be searching correct terms.  For some reason the siding is on the inside and the drywall on the outside.  I have tried changing it to an interior wall as well as deleting it and redrawing it, but it still comes back wrong.  Where do I look?  

    backwards wall.jpg

  11. Sorry,
    The same question as in original post, how do I draw the shed type roof over the porch without ruining my main house roof and not covering up my second floor windows.  Maybe I can find some instruction out there on manual roof tools.  Auto building the roof was turned off during a tutorial I found on drawing the gables.

     

  12. Sorry for the delay, I really wanted to figure this out on my own and I am back for real help.  Attached is a screen image of what I have now, for some reason it will not allow me to attach my current plan.  You will see I have foundation issues too but I will address them in a separate post if I cant figure that out.  I need the roof to be sloped to just under the second story windows.  I have auto rebuild roofs off currently because when I had it on I ruined my attic and gables which are correct again at this time.  Any help appreciated!

     

    porch.jpg

  13. I am drawing our existing house in HD Pro 2019 so I can design an addition to it.  I am new to the software. I am having problems with the porch roof.  You can see in the picture that the roof is intersecting the second story windows. The ceiling height is correct but it is making the structure above the ceiling too thick.  Please advise

    image.jpeg

  14. New guy here, let me explain the situation.  I own HD Pro version 8, and I tinkered with it several years ago.  The new products look to be way more powerful than what I have and I see there is a size able discount when upgrading.  I am getting ready for a 2 story addition on my house which I will build myself and my wife knows what she wants.  I am not worried about the building part, but sizing beams, footings, etc. is not my thing, I work off prints.  I will be having an engineer look over my plans, but need to be able to convey what my wife wants.  I am trying to find info to see if Home Designer Architectural or Home Designer Pro is the right product for me given what I am looking for.  Can anyone point me to some help?