Thank you so much Jo_Ann for spending the time to post something negative rather than simply help me better understand what I believe I made perfectly clear I need help with, whether I got the terminology correct or not. It seems to me that if everyone knew everything there is to know about home design and this software, there would be no need for this forum or any questions. But I see hundreds of questions being asked by folks like me that obviously aren't as polished at this as you are. Maybe you should consider letting folks that truly want to help people like me just learning the software rather than making comments that help no one.
For anyone else out there that may be willing to help, when I logged in to this forum earlier, I did not see or was not prompted to fill out a "signature". I can look at that later but I did mention in my original post that I am using Home Designer Pro. I just made the purchase so it's 2025.
I first tried adding this as a porch. I read through some of the knowledge base content and it instructed me to lay out the porch using "railing and deck>straight railing". What I could not figure out was how to get the windows in the gable end to be set back at the same plane as the front of the house. By default it puts the gable end windows (not shown yet) out at the front of the porch, where as I want the porch completely open. This is why a switched gears and tried to manipulate one of the dormers to create this look, but having no luck there either. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
