LawB10

Once again you will not be able to put a window or opening on a fence, the software will not allow it, as you will see... You're using Suite, which doesn't come with a slab, you can create the look of an opening using soffits and shapes but you can"t add a window or a door just a material. The work around is what I have shown. You use a doorway or a pass thru, once again, create a room and name it slab, uncheck roof over this room. Turn off auto rebuild foundation, and change it to monolithic slab, open the room and lower the ceiling height to 72 or 60" and c and d to -6 or 8. To get the block wall, click on the walls and change them CMU (block) and paint them.

Here's two ways to do it. Raise the half walls to 80" or lower the ceiling height for the brick room to 80" and uncheck roof over this room. One is a window the other is a pass thru.

Doug, I was going by the pictures that you uploaded, the entry has a roof over the door. If you keep the roof the garage roof will cut into it, so you have to build a second floor and lower it to 0". The only time you need to gable front and back walls, is when the room is a standalone . If it's attached as in this case, you only need to gable the front wall. The side walls control how steep the roof will be. To see the effects, change the pitch on the side walls to 12". If you gable the front wall for the Study it will cause a problem with the garage roof, however you solved the problem just click "extend the slope downward" for the front wall. Again click on the walls to see what was done, some of the walls in your plan are gabled and that's what's causing the problems. The porch on the second floor has to be moved out 3 to 5" to get the high shed to form and the back wall over the porch needs to come down about 4" or so.

Use the elevation regions, put one on each side and away from the house, raise and resize until you get what you want.

You can't put a window on a fence, use the half wall tool instead.....open it's specification box and go from there.

Is the house I uploaded the way you want it? If yes, then why are trying to rebuild it. Why are you having a problem if it's the way you want it. Auto rebuild roof is off, so you can change walls, ceiling heights, pitches to what ever you want, just don't turn auto roofs on if you do, the roof will "explode". Please keep in mind, this is a software program, which means anything can and does happen. To get an idea of what happens, turn on auto rebuild roofs and start moving walls around, raise or lower the pitches Change ceiling heights on the first and second floors, add the one room studio to the garage. That's one way of getting to learn how the software works. Just remember to click "don't save" when you close the program.

To get the roof to build automatically, you click Build>roofs and check auto rebuild roofs. If you look at the plan itself it shows how it was built, just click on everything in it to see what was done. Don't change the original plan, as Solver stated build a plan with auto roofs on and go from there.

First things first...with the straight stair tool you have to draw the stairs, with the click stair tool, it's automatic. In the plan I drew the stairs to show how it works. For the garage roof, there's two ways to do it, use the break wall tool and break the wall where you want the gable to be or build a second floor room over the garage, move the wall to where you want the gable to be. the two pics are what each method looks like. Generally, you change defaults for floors, doors, cabinets, roofs and windows. In Suite you change things in plan or camera view. you choose the material you want and either a paint can or roller will appear, then you apply the material to the walls etc. With painter tool: C is for component ( it paints part of the object) O is for Object ( it paints the object) R is for Room ( it paints everything in the room that has the same material) F is for Floor ( it paints every thing on that floor that has the same material) P is for Plan ( it paints everything in the plan) The plan you have created, won't give you what you want. The main house pitch is too low at 4" it needs to be 8". The way the walls are built you should have a shed roof on family and garage room, uncheck high shed/gable and use full gable for the side walls. As stated earlier click on everything in the plan to see how it was done ie: walls, rails and floors. The one on the left is the first floor using the breakwall tool, the one right is the second floor with wall moved. Macgregor-1-1.plan

First, How do you want the garage roof to look?

Doug, Please use the tutorials, reference manuals and anything else that helps you understand how the software operates. To answer you're questions: 1. Click on the wall tool (the upside down triangle) and a drop down list will appear. 2. Whenever you gable a wall, the software creates a "attic wall". 4. Yes 5. Electrical Outlets Click on everything in the plan I sent, to see what was done, it will help understand how the house was created.

Is this what you are trying to do? If so build a second floor and lower the ceiling height to 12". Then lower the pitch on the deck rails. You may have to resize the deck and first floor ceiling heights, also there's two windows in the same spot on the left wall. Try gableing the side rails.

Hold on, Here's a barebones version of the plan to get the roof extensions use the room divider tool. Then turn off Auto rebuild roofs and delete the invisible walls. Macgregor-1.planMacgregor-1.plan

First, uncheck invisible for all walls, and use doorways. On the second floor delete the walls that's over the first floor bathroom they are not needed. To get rid of the roof problem, move the Master bedroom wall to the right about 3" or so. If you raise the ceiling heights on the first floor, you raise the floor heights on the second floor, which means you have to draw stairs to get to the door.

Rebuild the foundation, the walls are out of alignment.

Is this what you are wanting to do??? If so uncheck the high shed wall... To fix for gaps on the high shed walls, build a second floor and check make new blank plan, then draw two single walls and use the room divider tool to create a room, gable the side walls and make the front wall high shed, and lower the ceiling heights to 24" or so. Once that is completed, turn off auto rebuild roofs and delete the walls or keep auto rebuild roofs on and make the rooms open below. Hope you don't mind some changes I made.... ZipKit3-1.plan

Go to your display options and uncheck Dimensions Automatic...

On the tool bar, click Library>Import Library....find the library you want to add and click on it. The software does the rest.

Yes you can with Suite, use boxes and size them to you're needs. Solver, you may want to edit your response. lol

Upload the plan please....

Undo everything you did after that, build a second floor, gable the front and back and use a 12" pitch and then lower the room to 12" or less. for the Porch lower the roof pitch to 3" or less for all rails, do the same for the four walls.

In the cabinet specification box click on front and uncheck include shelves, then click the cabinet tool on the tool bar and click shelf and place in the cabinet, lowering the second, third etc: use the full camera and place the shelves how you want them.

First: Click on the terrain and then uncheck Automatic and flatten pad, that way the elevation regions work correctly Use 3 elevation regions, one for the back, garage and front. To get an idea of how the regions work, raise/lower and expand them. Use the break line tool to get the regions to how you want it. Raise the ceiling height for the foundation or just the main house only as Jo_Ann shows. As an alternative, delete the invisible wall and lower the pitch on one side of the second floor roof. Here's what i got so far.

Uncheck highshed/gable roof and roof overhang on all the walls, lower the deck ceiling height to 96".

Open the living room specification box and check "ceiling over this room".

To see the railing posts in plan view, you have use a template that shows them ie: the Cottage template. What you can do is find which template allows the posts to show, copy/paste the rail into the current plan, you can also do that for windows and walls. Also why was the deck built that way? also the rails were 1" thick and used panels. Don't use a deck as landing, use the landing tool.