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I had some spare time (I'm retired) so decided to make a plan of my house. Here is a screen shot of the roof. It's all hip roofs and I created every one manually using the Roof Plane tool. Took me close to three hours. It must have given the framers a head ache to build it. Alan

I guess I'm not sure if a soffit was the correct way to create that appearance. I used a soffit and it is jus what I wanted -- so yes -- I guess I answered my own question. Alan

Please look at the attached photo of the living room of my house which has 10' ceilings. That area to the left of the fireplace has an 8' ceiling. How can I create that space with the wall over the top of it. I have a similar situation on the opposite side of the fireplace that is closed in as a book case. Thanks Alan

Anyone know where I can download a Pella window library catalog? Thanks Alan

I believe that you un-check the box that says cut wall at roof plane. This then shows a wall below the roof plane. Alan

I found it a bit overwhelming at first -- particularly roofs. However after much practice and viewing David's videos on YouTube I can honestly say I have now mastered the subject. As someone has said -- set your defaults first as it can get you in trouble down the road. Alan

Try this. Alan https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/search.html?q=gingerbread+trim&rsi=sbis&backendClass=entity

I would suggest that the ribs on a container are akin to studs -- you just need to determine what size and at what center distances they are then create a wall with no external skin. I don't know if in HD Pro you can change the stud sizes or centers -- I'm sure someone will chime in on that. If that is not possible then perhaps use the railing wall where you can change things. Alan

I believe that by adding an invisible wall divider you can select each side separately and in the structure dialog set the ceiling heights that you want. Alan

Fixed it with a workaround. Alan

In the UK we used to call those types of roofs North Lights. I worked as an engineer at Austin-Morris in Longbridge and what we referred to as the North Works had the same roof structure. I believe it was designed to capture as much North light as possible but the roof at Austin-Morris faced west - go figure. Alan

Okay after submitting a bug report for the Cut Walls at Roof Plane I finally understood what that function does and it's not what I thought it would do. It just removes the vertical section of the dormer side wall below the roof plane. I was told by tech support that to do what I wanted I just needed to extend the side walls into the building so they are visible in 3D views. Then to hide them in plan view I need to place a CAD square over the portion of the wall so that it is not visible. A workaround but does the job. Alan Cut wall at roof plane does this. I need to extend these walls into building so they complete the dormer in plan and elevation views. and then in plan cover the section of the side walls with a CAD box so they are not visible (in actuality they are built off the roof sheathing so are not visible on the second floor plan. Hope that makes sense. Alan

Doesn't siding normally hang over the foundation by a few inches. In all the house constructions I'v seen that is the case but not sure what the program does. Alan

Okay Eric thanks for all your help. Alan

Oh sorry about that. I must have somehow transferred the wrong one (I design on my Mac Pro and email from my MacBook). The plan I was working on somehow got saved outside of my drawing folder and when I send them I use the one that was inside the folder -- didn't look at the date. My bad. Thanks Alan 7660 Franklin Road .plan.zip

Eric Here it is. I ZIPed it. Thanks Alan Foothills 7660 Franklin Road.plan.zip

Eric The builder drew the plans to start with using some cheap program and he asked me to prepare detailed drawings. That certainly is an option. BTW the file you sent back where you fixed the differing room sizes must have been an older one because the one I sent had a foundation under the garage. I still have issue with the room heights. Using your suggestion of deleting the second floor and then fixing the room default heights doesn't make any difference to the second floor height -- which I think is caused by the fact that auto walls are still visible once I delete the whole floor. I think the issues that you can resolve but I can't is due to the fact I'm using a Mac. I would be happy to send you the latest file to see if you can fix them. BTW for some reason in my file (not the one you sent me with the Eric extension) the auto walls over the coat closet have no gone away -- hmm. Thanks Alan

Those dimensions are weird -- on my drawing they show up as whole numbers as I have the default ½" -- maybe because I'm running the Mac version and you are using a PC. Thanks for the porch drawing. Alan Alan

Wow thanks Eric. You are the answer man -- SOLVER indeed. Alan

Well any wall. I was using the basement garage wall as an example. Alan

I have a chain of say 4 dimensions that are either end to end or manual types and each one doesn't add up to the total. For instance one wall length dimension says it's 3'-6" but when I highlight the wall and click on the dimension to change the wall location it comes up as 3.59761". I enter exactly 3'-6" but it still doesn't change the actual dimension but it still shows 3'-6". The program is obviously rounding up but that throws off the end to end dimension. I have the dimension default set as 0 decimal places and minimum as ½". Any thoughts as to why this is happening? Thanks Alan

Eric I have attached the plan so maybe you can see what the devil is going on here. Those auto generated internal walls have me baffled. I may create a support ticket -- but I have a feeling it's maybe a bug in my drawing file as it never happened when I first started -- just popped up in the last week. Thanks for all your help. Alan Foothills 7660 Franklin Road.plan

Eric On a Mac it's Command X to delete and Command V to paste. I did what you said and deleted the whole second floor (there were four auto generate walls still visible -- changed the ceiling heights and pasted back but I still get a message on the first floor that I have varying room heights on the second floor. Now I have 6 auto generated internal walls showing on the second floor which the program is not supposed to do. Also I get messages that say that the floor and ceiling heights of the new rooms is different than the old rooms. If I select say a bedroom and look at the structure the floor joist size did not change from my defaults. Also there is only one room on the second floor that I cannot access the structure and that is the room at the front with the dormers. I spent some time added internal walls in that room to see where the issue was and I finally found a couple of square feet near the outside wall of the RH dormer that I couldn't access its structure and I couldn't see what the issue was. Alan

Eric Not sure what I'm doing here -- trying to get to the right floor heights I guess but all I get when I marquee the floor is just that -- a polyline box with no other options -- CTRL x doesn't bring up any window or any other function. Alan

By marquee you mean use the mouse to box the whole structure? Let me try that because I cannot gain access to the structure window for that main room at the front to fix the floor joist -- default is 11.625" (I think) and all the other rooms on that floor I changed to 9.25". Alan Edit I did what you said but CTRL x doesn't do anything.