Canman244

Thanks for your detailed input David. The concepts that I am working on will be converted to CAD and sent to the truss manufacturer and framers for review. I've been an AutoCAD user (machine and tool design) since the early '90's - I thought Home Designer would be a time-saver due to the "canned" elements.

I'm rather new at Home Designer, but I was attempting to have framing complete so that the material list populated as accurately as possible for costing.

OK, thanks Eric. This reverts back to the original issue where the roof rafters don't extend down to the dormer. Also, I will require 11-7/8" floor joists for the second floor - how do I achieve proper roof trusses with 11-7/8" bottom chord without interfering with the framing?

Please see the attached, and notice that the program draws the knee walls through the dormers when I try to install doors to the attic area. 34 x 42 Plan - April 8 2020.plan

Missing Dormer Rafters: I have yet to be able to draw an Auto-Dormer that is drawn with a proper roof over it. The framing is all messed up. I've attached a picture and a sample house plan. I asked for help with this about a year ago and below is the reply I received. I wonder if anyone has a resolution for this - the fix suggested by Home Designer Support is frustrating and very time consuming. Roof & Rafter Issue: I also have an issue related to the roof - there's a triangular object that appears, slicing through part of the building on the first floor. When selected, it is highlighted along with half of the second story roof. " Tuesday, Apr 09, 2019 - 08:20 AM PDT Hi Grant, I apologize for taking so long to get back to you about this case. I've spent a lot of time looking at it and this appears to be an issue within Home Designer itself. I showed it to our engineers and they are going to need to make some adjustments to Home Designer to get this functioning correctly. In the mean time, you can grab those framing members and simply drag them out to meet the dormer and they should stay there. This would be easier to do in plan view than in camera views. You can turn on the display of your roof framing by going to the Tools menu then clicking on Display Options. In the window that comes up, scroll down until you find the layer Framing, Roof Rafters and then put a check in the Disp column. This will have your roof framing display in plan view and then you can drag them out to where they need to be." Missing Dormer Rafters.pdf Roof & Rafter Issue.pdf