jay-dub

Good advice. I was wondering if that was a prerequisite to building the roof. I'm still struggling with the roof though. I've not ever designed a roof like this. I've spent several hours/days on it and no matter what I do I keep ending up with a few planes I cant get right. Thanks for the tip, Eric!

I'll check out the videos. Here is what I was using as a target, with the exception of the front-facing garage gable. The point where the roofs converge to the left of the front porch gable is a point of concern for rain. Appreciate the help, Eric. I'll work on it and post back what I come up with.

I like the nice clean lines of the roof you came up with. Much better than the hips. I'll give that a shot. I am not sure I possess the skills to fine tune the roof after the auto build but I'm also not one to back down from a challenge. What pitch are you using in your examples?

OK I uploaded an older version (without the roof). The new one roof.plan has the roof in it as well. I added the railings to the front of the house near the garage/front porch to stop HDP from putting a massive valley through the center of the house. It's the only way I could figure out how to do it.

I've uploaded it.

I am having a bit of trouble with the roof of the house I am designing. Here is what I have so far. My problem is over the garage. It's currently an 8/12 pitch but I need to make it 12/12. Wehn I change the pitch over the garage, I get lost trying to make everything work correctly. Also, the area circled seems like a bad convergence for rain water. No matter what I do, I can't seem to get the roof to work correctly. In the below pics, I've changed the garage planes to 12/12. The rest is 8/12. Here is an example of what I'd LIKE for it to look like (I'll add the dormer later). Any suggestions would be appreciated. roof.plan