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If you could point out specifically how to change the room heights that would be a big help. I'm assume you mean some setting in the "Edit Object -> Structure" settings. The key part I haven't figured out is that in the structure dialog box it describes ceiling heights. The "ceiling" in this area is just the underside of the beams and tongue-and-groove 2x8's that make up the structure of the roof. This of course follows the pitch of the roof rather than being the traditional ceiling that is typically horizontal and at the height of the top plates of the wall as is shown in the "Structure" dialog.

Wow! You did it Urchin11! My plan, now attached, currently has an exterior wall defined as the divider between the original house and the shed-roof addition room. Is that right or should it be interior ? The shed-roof addition area is divided into multiple room areas, a small hallway bit, 2 bathrooms, a bedroom and 2 closets. Would I be setting the height of all of those individually or is there a better (single) place to do that ? house.plan

You rule LawB10. Thanks!

I made a simple 3D model of the roof configuration I'm trying to model in Sketch-Up and attached it here. For reference, the original posting I made has the floor plan attached so you can see the Shed Roof portion of the floor plan and relate it to this 3D image. Thanks much.

Eric, did you notice that I did include a screen capture with the original post ?

Eric, I provided a great deal of information about a very simple roof layout and did include screen captures in both this and the previous post. Please respond with actionable information / solutions rather than forum moderating the way you would like to see that information compiled. My concern is that you're just derailing my very straightforward and detailed questions with your wishes.

Hello Eric, If you even know the rough steps to approach this problem, please advise. That could be a big help. I've spent hours messing with layering and building foundations and looking at documentation / videos and cannot get the slab-next-to-crawl floor heights and foundation to look right when viewed with a 3D perspective camera.

Hi, Our single-story house was built with a hip roof throughout. A rectangular addition was added to the with a shed-style roof. The addition was just scabbed on to an existing exterior wall and the eave / rafter ends were just cut off flush where the new addition was added. As such, the existing hip roof just dies into the vertical wall (the high side) of the new shed-roof addition. The hip roof and the shed roof are about 2 1/2 in 12 pitch. The high side of the shed wall that is adjacent to the existing house is about 12 feet high. The low side of the shed wall is away from the existing house and about 8 feet high. I can't figure out how to get Home Designer Architectural 2018 to accommodate this roof configuration. Can anybody provide me the exact steps to model this shed-style-roof-next-hip-roof design ? Cheers,

Hi, I'm creating a new model of our single story house. The house has an attached garage with a slab floor adjacent to the remainder of the house that is on a crawl space. There is, of course, a shared wall between the interior of the house and the garage. I assume there's a footing under slab around the garage perimeter. The floor of the garage is 2 feet lower than the finished floor of the house, therefore, the top of the wall shared between the garage and the interior of the house is 10' high in the garage and 8' high inside the house. In other words, as far as house plans go, very typical, very simple. Despite this ubiquitous layout, I don't see how to express this in Home Designer Architectural 2018. Starting with an empty plan, can anybody provide me the exact steps to model this slab-next-to-crawl foundation ? Cheers,