nhhandyman

Thanks - the roof is OK in that area - the back right is still messed up - but the left is more important.

I have attached a jpg with red lines on it - that is where I want to place a flat ceiling over this room.

The ceiling will actually be the height of the second floor on the right side of the structure.

Do I need to chop up/create a room below to do this?  It is in effect a single room.

And if you want to comment on how I can adjust the roofline on the back right I wouldn't mind some help there also.

Thanks - Brian (profile should say I'm running suite 2020 on Windows 10)

want-flat-ceiling.plan

I'm finally getting back to this.

I can't get the roofline on the 'outside-1' to line up.  It thinks there are several roofs needed.....  I've tried several wall combinations.

Also, on the front of the house - the shed roofs are supposed to be identical - but the one on the right side can't be moved without the software complaining that it can't complete the roof.

thanks

wrong-roof-lines.plan

Thanks.  Very close now - the small 1'10" area has a roof return but I'll live with that.

The big piece that I think held things back was that there was no room defined.  I created the second floor manually (because of the cathedral ceiling on the rest of the first floor) which I suspect caused the walls to be set to not define a room.

I removed the other dormers to focus on this.

This is NOT a dormer roof - manually created

sides are exterior - full gable 

end wall is exterior - hip with a 3/12 pitch

Thanks

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Several walls were set to no room - I've fixed that.  

Solver:  I do not see what you uploaded.  I've attached what I see.

The main roof line should not increase in height and the sides of the dormer should be on the same plane as the first floor exterior walls.

You've given me a few more things to experiment with.

What part of:

Problem:

  I can not get the software to create a shed roof over that area of the second floor.  

is not clear enough?

And the dormer tool would not initially allow me to place a dormer in that area.  I had to change the alcove settings in the roof dialog to 5' to get the auto dormer tool to allow it to be placed there.

When I did that, I had to move back the walls I had defined - it also created its own walls (not using the existing walls).

Sorry - when you are so close to the issue/problem you can't describe it correctly.

Problem:

  I can not get the software to create a shed roof over that area of the second floor.  

I tried putting an exterior wall that covered the base - but the roof that was automatically created was a hip style roof.  I created an interior wall to close off that section but the roof remained the same.

I also tried creating an interior wall (gable sides, shed) with no luck.

I did not however define a room.

Using Home Designer Suite 2019 - 

I did a quick check of the differences between the pro and suite and I don't think my issue is lack of functionality in the Suite version.... but I've been wrong plenty of times before.

I have looked through multiple q/a and tutorials on shed roofs and shed roof dormers.  The house has a standard 12/12 pitch roof with several shed dormers off the front.  There is only a second floor on the right section of the house with a 'normal' shed dormer on the front and a shed roof on the back that extends over the bump out (4') - so its not really a dormer since its exterior wall is in line with the first floor.   Areas that do not have the second floor have a cathedral ceiling (with a shed dormer).

The attached plan file was one of my attempts to add the roof as a shed - it didn't work. 

I tried adding a second floor exterior wall but that didn't change the auto roof line.

Do I need to define rooms on the second floor for the software to consider the walls as full height and not flatten them?

Thanks for any help.

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