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Hi Eric. I did try to search for "Cape Cod" in various places but was not able to find specific references or instructions. What tool or site did you use to get the result you got? David, your info helped me greatly. It gave me enough info to find my own solution. I tried your version of dragging the front 2nd story wall back but that destroyed what I had already completed on the 2nd floor. TIP> MAKE SURE the main structure is what you want before working on inside details. My learning tip. 1 - What I ended up doing was to define a pitch of 5 on the back wall of the 2nd floor 2 - completely removed the 2nd floor front exterior wall 3 - set a 10 pitch for the 1st floor front wall. This extended the roof all the way through the 2nd floor to join the back roof line. 4 - as you suggested, I then turned off auto roof generation to lock it in. What scares me now is that if I have to change the roof I might need to enable auto roof mode which might have adverse effects based on the changes I make to the inside walls. This may be a limitation of the HD Suite package. Anyway, here's what I have now thanks to your info. Plugging away slowly.......

I have a Cape Cod style house where the front of the house is a single floor and the back is two floors. See attached picture. The 2nd floor footprint is smaller than the first and the roofline starts at the top of the 2nd floor with a steep pitch all the way down to the front 1st floor. The rear of the roof has a lower pitch to cover the 2nd floor. Also, the front of the 2nd floor is set back by about 10 feet creating inside walls with a corner cut off to allow for the roofline. This also creates a wall that is only about 4 ft tall. See attached picture of the inside of the room. My obvious 1st question, Does Home Designer Suite 2021 support non-rectangular walls when looking at the wall itself in 3D view? If HDS 2021 doesn't support this then Oh..Kay If it does, can someone point me to User Guide, reference guide, video or link that describes how I can do this. Thank You in advance for any suggestions.

Well Eric, You made this look easy. Thank You for taking the time to show me. There are a couple concepts I don't understand from this. You deleted Deck Framing. It deleted the unwanted deck and that beam sticking out of the wall. Why not the other two decks? Is that because they are considered Railing Walls (and not deck)? I'll need to review how "Delete Objects" functionality works and when to use it. BTW I messed up the deck layout to better expose the problem for you. I'll redraw it back the way I want it. Thanks Again. VERY VERY helpful.

This is getting BIZARE. I made the deck smaller and now the 3D view is showing a random beam sticking out of the wall. The 2D view on the right has all floors selected. There must be a way to view a list objects and delete out what doesn't belong there.

Ignore previous.... HDS was open ... let me try again.. 10PhillipsSt-210301.plan

Thank You for helping Eric. Here you go. 10PhillipsSt-210301.plan

Yup! Not There. Is it possible I inadvertently hid it in 2D mode? Is there an option that I can get a listing of all the objects in my plan to see if it is there or not?

I'm Using Home Design Suite (HDS) 2021 on MacBook Pro running Catalina OS. I did try to search the Help, knowledge, the user guide and the reference manual to see if I could find a solution. At this point I'm probably not knowledgeable enough to know what I'm looking for, so please bare with me. If someone can point me to where I can look to help answer my question, I'll be grateful. Thanks in advance.

New to HDS: Early on I created a small deck in 2D mode and later decided to delete it in favor of a new deck design. All good except that when I go in 3D mode that deck is still there. I can't select it so I can't delete it. Really getting in the way of my main deck plan. Any ideas on how to resolve this? I included both 2D & 3D view image. Is it possible I inadvertently locked the object or hid it in 2D view. Still doesn't explain why I can't select it in 3D view and delete it. I am able to "delete surface" so this deck object is still there in some form.