Ducati007

Hi @solver: I did use Edit Area, and moved it, but Edit Area doesn't let you choose a specific width/size for the removed area, and it definitely doesn't "copy" the same size area on the 2nd floor, so after doing the Edit Area actions (deleting an area, then selecting and moving the remaining part "over") I think my walls are slightly off-alignment and I can't find a tool to get them right again so I can rebuild the roof and see the attic. They look right on screen, but something must not be right for it not to create the attic level again.

Hello Hometalk Gurus: (I am a 2021 HD Architectural newbie) I am hoping you can assist me and others (in the future) with addressing this problem: I am trying to figure out how to change a single room in a multi-room building in a plan that has already been heavily designed. Specifically, I want to make the center room of this monitor style building more narrow in the width (from 36'5" to 28'), without modifying the sizes of the other two "side" rooms which are 22'. I did make it work on a very simple example by deleting the 2nd floor, modifying the first floor dimensions via edit area, and then recreating the 2nd floor again based on the new 1st floor plan, but what if you need to adjust a room size after you have done a lot of design work, have multiple floors, special walls, etc and don't want to lose all those settings/elements? For my build, the tricky part is this room (the RV garage) is located on 2 floors (so an open room on the 1st floor that goes all the way to the ceiling), and both floors have lots of design elements already. I have attached the plan of my build so you can see what I mean. Is the "delete 2nd floor, adjust 1st floor, recreate 2nd floor and basement" process the best/only method to do this? I feel like the program should take changes and adjust on all levels, but I can't seem to get it to do that, and my best effort resulted in not being able to generate a new attic level (and yes, auto-generate roofs was on). I zipped the file so I hope you can open it OK. Thanks for your time and support! Barndo Monitor #1.zip

YEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!! THANK YOU ERIC!!! I assumed those outer walls on the 2nd floor had to be there since it copied the floorplan from the first floor! I am seriously SO grateful!

Hey @Jo_Ann This is the 2nd time you have been extremely condescending, and I don't appreciate it. I watched Eric's video several times and did exactly as he noted--I made the 2nd floor interior walls exterior walls; I modified the room ceiling on the 1st floor and 2nd floor to the exact same values, and ensured I had auto-rebuild roofs. Instead of being rude as you sit on your high horse, why don't you provide the plan that you made that roof with using HD Architectural so I can LEARN from my mistakes and hopefully help another newbie? Otherwise, please exit the discussion; you are being less-than-helpful.

OK, here it is! Monitor Roof Test Design.plan

I tried again and made sure all my values for wall heights and such were the same as yours. I also ensured that auto rebuild roofs was on, and tried both on/off for ignore the top floor. See pics to confirm. No matter how high a value I put in for the 2nd floor room, the roofline will not break. I even tried changing the type of roof wall the upper room walls were from hip walls to high shed/gable walls, and it didn't affect the "rise" of the 2nd level. Is there a way to shut off the 4/12 pitch or continuous pitch roofline, or should my walls have different values WRT the roof (i.e., hip wall, knee wall, etc)?

Thank you so much for the Youtube video. Sadly though, I watched it many times and followed your directions fully (modifying all room attributes per your guidance) and still no luck. I even tried to make the 2nd floor center room significantly taller, and it would not allow the 2nd floor to break the 4-12 roofline even though the values stated the 2nd floor was over 20 feet tall! I presume it is due to limitations with my software. I will start a new file and try it again and will report back if it works. In other news, with HD Architectural, you are not able to remove the floor structure.

I assumed the center room would be 30" higher than the side rooms that had the same pitch. Are you saying I need to do 5 feet plus 30 inches?

I can't say that this picture does help. It looks like you made a 2nd floor that was 6'8" tall, and then did a wall break that was 2'6.5" tall. I am still not tracking on how to make the roof raise in that section, or which attributes should be assigned to the two portions of the "broken" vertical wall. As noted, a serious newbie, but have been unable to find anything in the references you note to help me do this. As for the signature--I updated, thanks. I thought it was my profile info that would be displayed. I appreciate the help.

@solver/et. al: Help a newbie!! I am also trying to do the monitor style roof (see attached picture) and did as previously recommended on another thread to try and raise the center part of the roof: I made a simple structure with a central room, adjusted the ceiling height in the central room to be 30 inches higher than the two side rooms, and no matter what I do, I can't "break" the roof line of the simple 1-story building. - I have a 4-12 pitch roof - I designated the vertical sides of the building as hip walls and the two horizontal sides of the building as full gable I even tried to create a 2nd floor that just had the central room, and it still won't generate a higher roofline. I am so perplexed and likely am doing something wrong... Any help would be appreciated. I have attached the file for your use. Monitor Roof Test Design.plan