DavidJPotter

There is no such thing in Suite as a false window but such a thing can be emulated at need (just not using a window symbol per se). Please show us what you want to do and then we can then have some judgement as to how it could be done.

DJP

The safest way to do this is to turn off all layers that are connected to the house. Turn on all layers relative to the terrain (terrain, roads, sidewalks), then turn on the "Reference floor" display which shows the virtual layers of the house when can then be used to orient the terrain etc to the house.

When you have it where you wnat it, you can turn back on the layers of the house, walls, windows, roof planes etc. Just keep them separate and unselectable while you otient the terrain to the house.

DJP

Thank you for sharing your file, this is a link to a You Tube video of me looking over your file:

 http://youtu.be/9NWOG3t1khc

DJP

Software on its  own does very little. Once you learn how to best use the software you have you can then do limitless things within its capabilities. The difference between great results and no results is the intention of the user and his or her willingness to study and practice so as to know what to do and why.

Learn the software first please before launching into a complicated, demanding job of 3D modeling is my advice.

A lady in Houston who owns Home Designer Pro 2014 hired me to model the home attached as images below, I did so using Chief Architect Premier X5. She wanted to be able to space plan and make interior decorating choices with this plan file using her software.

So yes you can do this sort of Architecture once you learn how to (it takes time to do properly) I have been using and teaching this software since 1994, so I had a head start but you can as well.

DJP

The most common cause is where two wall segments can overlap from floor to floor obscuring fully or partially wall penetrations (windows and doors). If you have Home Designer Pro this is rather easy and straight forward to repair. If you have anything else than Home Designer Pro then you must find and straighten out the incorrect settings you knowingly or unknowingly impenged or allowed to be impenged upon the plan file you are  having trouble with.

I agree with Eric in that having a copy of your plan file, whatever the version and title witll make helping you easier to do.

DJP

If you are a PC user, then "Windows Explorer" is your tool of choice. The Home Designer software is for creating plan files, Windows Explorer is for organizing-controlling your plan files.

DJP

Here is a way to get started:

http://youtu.be/p6jY_z39TeA

DJP

PS: I looked for the doors I mentioned in the tutorial but have not found them, But you could just use a doorway (Hole in the wall) and then manually size and place two cabinet doors selected from the library as a secondary solution.

I did find this one that you can try ( I exported it from Chief Architect Premier) attached (You import the library file under "Library" dropdown menu

Princesse Gate.calibz

Even Builders and Architects would first have to learn how ot guide and control the software. Some address to nomenclature is of course useful. My advice is to learn the software and its tools as your immediate goal and then you can use that competence to create whatever you like. 

The software is not particularly "intuitive" things do have names that you must understand and actions to be learned, the software is mechanical in that it follows preset default settings or those settings that you apply based upon the specific result you seek (that is what must be learned by you gradiently (a little at a time).

DJP

Eric gave you THE answer, that is how that is done.

DJP

Here is a workable solution:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCCI0P5J1B0&feature=youtu.be

DJP

Here is a You Tube tutorial about a workable solution:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H75Ry8AfHJ0&feature=youtu.be

DJP

Here is a link to a people library I made from images provided by an Architect friend at Chief Talk

https://www.dropbox.com/s/yx6urjrricvtkhn/people.calibz?dl=0

I will make this file available for one week and then I will delete it from my Dropbox account, enjoy

DJP

What software title and version are you using please?

DJP

Take Eric's advice in terms of when asking a question it needs to be in the context of what software you have and use. Each Title and Version have its own set of skills, tools and limitations which tend to define the answers.

Generally speaking you can do just about anything you can think of using Sketch Up to make custom applicques and objects, not native to Home Designer software and then import and use them. Native limitations exist and part of learning the software is learning what it natively can do and what must be done elsewhere to create just the needed-wanted effect.

The only real limiter is the end user and their ideas of what is acceptable.

DJP

Rather than some opinions you will get here, you might fare better asking Chief Architect Tech Support that specific question because it is rather technical in nature.

DJP

Angled in plan view? Sure. (X-Y axis)

Angled in the vertical plane, no. (Z- axis)

There are ways to emulate slanted walls in the verticle but not easily in Home Designer Software. You can add custom objects to verticle walls so they looked slanted at least on one side. 

Freeform applications like Sketch Up can do this sort of thing but they are of course not object-oriented like Chief Inc software, it is hard to have both a totally free hand and fixed objects with preprogrammed attributes in one application.

DJP

How to do all basic roof styles is explained in the software within the "Build Roof" dialog "Roof Styles" tab with pictures and text how to preset the software for a particular outcome or result. Your roof type is called a "shed roof" in that information.

DJP

I never looked for a rotate handle while in any camera views because it is so much easier to control and locate such items while in plan view where all the handels do show when something is selected.

Perfection in anything is not something I tend to expect or even wish for. I do appreciate workability and this software, though not perfect is very workable and fascile which is good enough for me.

DJP

If you have Home Designer Pro you can manually-selectively raise and lower any roof plane using the "Transform-Replicate - Move" dialog. If you do not have Home Designer Pro then you must control roof baseline-plate heights by each "Room Specification dialog box - Structure tab-Ceiling Height" input box per space before rebuilding roofs.Most Home Designer software applications operate on presettings, either factory preset or manually set by your choice and needs. That is all it does so it depends upon you to then know where those settings are and what they are for.

Study them, practice using them and then this software becomes the tool it was designed  to be under your hands.

DJP

You have already been given some workable advice by Eric and MIck.

I just thought I would point out that roof derectives such as "Shed Roof, High Shed Gable, Gable Roof etc" are mainly for auto-roof generation and have no effect or little direct effect on manual roof editing or creation.

"Roof Cuts wall at Bottom" is  a manually important command whether editing manually (usually done manually) or automatically but has a very specicic purpose and effect.

DJP

 

 

I ask you, how can I create these roofs?

I answered your question already. If you choose to ignore its answer, well that is a personal choice for you to make.

If you are unwilling to look, study and practice, then you do not deserve any further help from any one. Though others can do as they will.

DJP

Kat is precisely correct (I missed that one because I NEVER use that tool, found in the Build Roof Dialog as a check box). I never bothered to use that tool and so often overlook it as a "cause" for roof problems. 

There is nothing "wrong" with that tool (Roof Baseline Poly-Lines) except hardly anyone bothers to study what it is exactly for or how to properly use it and being used anyway without study then just causes "Mysterious" unwanted results. There are enough tools and settings that exist in this software that if used without study, just make things worse.

You should always know what you are doing and why no matter what area of one's Life we are talking about. It is a way to happiness (knowledge).

DJP

How to achieve various specific outcomes using programs other than Pro or Chief one carefully studies the data found in the "Build Roof" Dialog - "Roof Styles" tab where how to set up for each roof style is explained. Generally speaking, all Chief Architect Inc software does what it does based upon either factory default settings or those settings that the end user sets to guide the software to wanted results. When you know where those settings are, what they are for and what they then do, you have the software mastered where it then becomes a tool, to do otherwise (guessing, trial and error or being "intuitive") just takes too long when all the answers are already resident in the Help Files, Reference Manual and in help videos. It just costs some of yout time and attention followed by practice of what was studied.

DJP

It does have a "rotate handel", it is triagle shaped, look for it when it is selected. All such objects have triangular-rotate handels when selected

DJP

In all titles and versions of Home Designer software the name "Deck" includes by default, no ceiling and no roof, so if you named the porch space "Deck" it will not have a ceiling or roof until those programming commands are removed in that space's room specification dialog - structure tab.

The second reason you might not be getting a roof to form is when the walls are not fully connected so they form a closed space and thus a room specification dialog just for that space (unclosed spaces will not be roofed over by default, make sure the space is fully closed and properly programmed by you and you will then get a roof to form when ordered to do so).

DJP