BalutFX

Great suggestion. I hadn't thought about that. Also, I was messing with offsets to the balusters, so I think I can make the alignment workout with manual Newels. I'll post an update if I am successful. Thanks.

I'm looking for a way to offset the Newels of the railing between my Loft and the Open Space below, so that half of the Newel is running down the loft flooring structure. I have attached a few sample screenshots of what I am attempting to accomplish, along with a picture export of my plan. Thanks. BTW, I am currently using Home Designer Pro 2023 on a 14" MacBook Pro M1.

Thanks. I am just trying to get the look / measurements right and fully understand that HDP does not produce engineered truss designs. The “problem” I’m trying to solve is getting the roof eves to terminate at the correct wall height. Right now, some of them hit the window and door framing in my models with the default truss settings. I will probably just do some manual measurements off the plans and raise the trusses off the top plate, but was also asking because I wasn’t sure what method of truss design that was. Thanks.

I am redrawing our designer’s plans in Home Designer Pro 2022, and am having problems with the roof framing. The top cord appears to sit higher in the drawing, and I initially thought it might be due to an energy heel? Anyway, I was walking through a framed house in the same general area that my home will be built and I noticed this truss structure. That seems like what my designer has drawn and I was hoping someone could tell me what that is called and maybe how I can replicate it in HDP. Thanks.

Hey MGM_Home, I see that you have not found (or at least posted) a solution to your problem. I had the same issue and after watching some videos and researching other similar questions, I have a working solution for me. It might work for you too. Essentially, I drew two additional external walls into the room, long enough to intercept with the dormer's ceiling planes, then edited the wall to "Roof Cuts Wall at Bottom". There is still a small piece of the dormer's ceiling plane that I cannot figure-out how to eliminate, but at least it solves the weird drywall issues without the extra walls and closes the "gap". My next step is to see if I can hide those extra walls in the plan view. Hope that helps. UPDATE: After posting this, I went back into the model to see if I could hide the extra walls (making them invisible didn't produce the desired results). Anyway, I read about hiding attic walls, so I tried redrawing the dormer roofs without raising the ceiling in the room, which created attic walls to close the "gap". However, that created walls above the roof as well as below. I was able to use "Roof Cuts Wall at Bottom" to get rid of the wall in the room, but could not delete the wall created above the roof, without it re-creating the wall below the roof. Anyway, still not the best solution, but going with my original method until I can figure-out how to create a better solution.