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It seems like the software can't find where that material is located. There are other things that needs to be looked at, the outdoor shower is not connect to the house, connect it and set the room type to Slab and room name to outdoor shower, does the ceiling height have to be 13'? There's no foundation? and the first floor is just a garage and alot of empty space, is that the design of the house? By the pool there's a open space, if somebody were to fall it's gonna hurt, delete the invisible wall and drag the rail to complete the deck. For the Pool, draw a wall so that it appears, and the deck surrounds it. I turned auto rebuild roof on and nothing changed, except the extension went away. That means you built the house correctly.

It's alot easier to let the software do the work for you. The roof is a simple design. Here the software was told to ignore the second floor and not to rebuild the roof, that's why your having the issue's. By default garages, porches, slabs, attic rooms, open below rooms and balconies are exclude from the living area. Uncheck ignore the second floor and turn auto rebuild roofs On until the roof is how you want it.

You delete the countertop then place the sink in it. Again your better off using what's in the Library and The manufactures catalog.

Again, you click on the cabinet face and click Item type>opening, that will create a opening to place the appliance.

Got it......

If that's a Apron sink, download the Kohler catalog, it has lots of Apron sinks and they work with the software.

You click on the face of the cabinet, and click> Item type>opening. When you download from a third party the symbol don't work to well , your better off using what 's in the library and the manufacture's catalogs that you get from the Homedesigner site.

Alvar, Check your second floor walls, you have a wall that's checked as attic and kneewall- uncheck it. The polyline is right at the roof pane on the second floor, that's why the Porch roof isn't building correctly The soffits is not the problem, because there are none. Again turn on auto rebuild roofs and delete that polyline, everything will fall into place.

Turn Auto rebuild roofs On and delete the polyline on the second floor, uncheck Attic and kneewall and make the Attic walls visible.

You open the the plan and click Window > tile vertically, the display will be in 2d and in 3d views, the Icons will show up only in 3d view. C is for Component O is for Object R is for Room F is for Floor P is for Plan You choose the material you want and click the F painter icon, then you click on a exterior wall and it will paint all the exterior walls. Change the Material and do the same thing for the interior walls. The one that paints everything all at once is the P painter.

First uncheck "Ignore 2nd Floor" that's why the roof didn't build. The right side wall for the Porch needs fixing up. Delete the Retaining wall and use a Terrain Wall. Delete the Pool that's 3" high LOL and use the terrain feature Size it to how you want it and make the height - 72 or more and change the concrete to what you want. Make another terrain feature making it larger than the pool and check "clip overlapping terrain features". Use a Box shape and place it inside the pool and size it, drop it down to -65 and raise the height to where you want it then add a water material. On the second floor there are exterior walls with siding and interior walls as exterior walls, make them the same as the first floor walls. The stairs can't find the second floor room, because it's not there, make that a room, delete the attic walls and interior wall, create the stair well then make the space next to it Open Below. Turn on the reference and see what walls are aligned.

Use the Floor (F) Painter.

I just realized something, in the PDF on the first floor the right side gable roof ridge aligns with the second floor roof ridge. Which means the pitch is a five for the right side. also the roof line is straight not crooked.

Jo_Ann, The template that's being used is the Country Cottage, it sets the eave and gable overhangs at 12" the software did not change it to 42, the user did.... You can change the eave overhang on individual walls, but you can't change the gable overhang. There's no pictures of what the roof really looks like so I went by the PDF. It's clear to me the eaves blend at the middle not at the end of the roof. If you will download the Architect roof elevations PDF, you will see the rear does not blend, only the middle does.

I gave some bad advice for the back porch, sorry about that. Here's the fix. Drag the wall until it's about 6" from the dining room, do the same for the dining room, making it one wall. If you decide to add railing to the Porches, draw the railing away from the house, click on it and check "no room definition". Why are the first floor and second floor eaves blending? If you look at the PDF, the first floor height is 8' the second floor height is 10'8", its's clear that those eaves don't blend.

Here's a revised copy of the plan Remodel-1.plan

Your Welcome You're right, the dimensions are wrong, you can change them to what they need to be. Also the first floor pitch is a four and the gables are five, again you can change it. Does the eaves need to be 42 " ? try 18 and 18 to see how it looks. The 1.5 pitch is not going to work, if you want it to look like the Architect pdf, 3 and above will. To fix the problem your having, with auto rebuild ON ungable the rear porch, next, delete the the second floor and reset the ceiling height for the Kitchen room. Rebuild the second floor. The plan I uploaded was built using Suite 2017 and was an easy build.

Here you go.... Keep Auto rebuild roofs on until the roof is how you want it, then turn it off. Open the second floor room specification box, look at the numbers, Ceiling B is 129 which is what you want. Don't change any of the other numbers, for the second floor gables use the break wall tool. Remodel.plan

Could you upload the plan you have now?

You may want to send this to tech support and ask why that option grayed out in default settings.

Here's what you have to do in Suite. You draw the wall, open it's specification box , click materials>exterior wall and change the material. In the thickness box change the thickness to what you want. Then go to Edit>default settings>walls, open the exterior wall and select the wall you created. That will be you're default wall for the plan.

Here's a barebones copy of the plan, and I do mean barebones. Without knowing what size and height the rooms will be, I left the interior open. howie house.plan

I take it that this is a work in progress, there's still a lot of work to be done. So please take these as suggestions. Click tools>plan check for both floors, you will see why, the doorway in the Kitchen is 96" you may want to lower that.. Try the room divider tool to separate the Kitchen from the Dining room and Great room and rename them. Uncheck "include in total living area calculation" and check default, it includes the living area, by default your Porches, Slabs and Garages are excluded. For the Bunk room, please change it to bedroom, because that's what it is. On the tool bar click the outlet icon and click auto place outlets for the rooms add switches and lighting and connect them using the connect electrical tool. To get the attic walls to match the first floor interior walls, use two wedges back to back, resize them and make them about 1" thick or less. On the second floor, the master bath shower has a sliding door, here's something you try, break the wall at the cabinet and change it to a glass shower wall, keep or delete the sliding door, if you keep it, make the door glass, if you delete it, type glass door in the search bar and install on the glass wall, or just make the whole wall glass, resize the cabinets so that they are against the wall they spaced about 3" inches from the wall and software filled in the gap.

Is the concrete structure with the fence, the dog run? If so that's why I put the utility room there. The garage roof is on the second floor, that's where you change the pitch. 6" is about as high you should go.

You can't with Suite, you raise/lower the room. Here's what I was saying earlier, and the finished plan. Macgregor-1-1.plan