evan709

Hi Mick, Your directions were great! I followed them and my version now looks like yours. The only difference is that my roof doesn't meet with the floor in the front door alcove. I'm trying all the adjustments you note in your write up, but most things I try throw the whole thing off. How do I fix this problem? The prows aren't critical for my purposes, but if there's an easy step or two to get them in place, I'd like to do it. Let me know. Thanks!!! Evan

Not sure my link pasted correctly. Click here to get to the video. Evan

Here's a link to the video of the outside and inside of the existing house. Evan

Thanks for offering to take a look. You've all been along for the ride long enough on this that you should get the full story to understand what I'm doing. This is a partially constructed house. It's "finished" on the outside, but just raw framing (and not a lot of that) on the inside. It's sat as-is or a few years and is now an estate sale with not a lot of information to go from. There was a set of plans found in the shed, but they are for an RV garage that the previous owner must have used as a starting point, adapting to fit whatever their tastes and desires were along the way. The current structure holds to the plans on the outside in general with two major exceptions. First is the section of the front on the right hand side as you face the front is brought out parallel with the left. (In the plan it's the "shop" area and it's recessed a lot.) On the back in the "RV garage" section of the plan there's a bank of six sliding doors that show you a great view instead of the solid wall the plan calls for. I'm considering making an offer for the property. Need to create a rough set of plans to get an estimate from a contractor first. Some significant changes need to be made to what's constructed. For example, the previous owner put sliding glass doors instead of a window in the second floor room that sits over the garage. This makes no sense as there's no cantilevered beams for a deck in place. I would remove the doors and replace with a window which is what I'm doing in my attached plan. Attached is a zipped version of my plan along with a PDF showing more pictures and scans of the plans found for the RV garage and workshop. I also have some video which I'm uploading and will provide a link in a subsequent post when it's done. All I need for now is to get a roof that roughly matches what's there into my plan. What you have created and posted here should work well. I'm just not experienced enough to create it with your coaching. If I do end up buying the house, I will get more detailed measurements and refine the plan which might require more assistance. My plan has a second floor designed with interior walls. You can delete this floor and start again. I'll recreate it once the roof is correct. Thanks again! Evan Lost Mountain - Pictures and Original Plans.pdf Lost Mountain Plan #1 Backup.zip

Everyone commenting here is great and I appreciate all the help. I tried to follow your instructions today and got closer, but still not very close. I love this software, but recognize I have a bigger learning curve than I thought, especially on the roof. I still need to get a relatively accurate roof in my design so I can move on to the rest of the project and need to do it quickly, faster than my learning curve will allow. I don't have actual plans for the house, just the pictures I shared (long story). I don't need to be completely accurate for my purposes so best interpolation will work. I'm willing to hire someone to help me get there. I could either send you my existing design and have you transfer what you created so I get a proper roof and then shut off auto redraw probably fastest. Alternatively, we could set up a screen sharing session and you could coach me through the steps so I can get the roof you designed onto my project (more time but better chance of me learning). Please let me know if you're interested, what you think of the two approaches, and what you would charge. Again, I'm very thankful for all you've volunteered to date and I hope I've given you an interesting challenge. Evan

Thanks to all of you for your ideas and demos. I really appreciate it. I generally understand what everyone is suggesting, but I seem to keep stumbling out of the gate. I add the second level with zero height, set the side walls to full gable, set the interior wall offset and as a knee wall, but I can't get the salt box output like I'm expecting. The side full gables are still centered at the mid point. Clearly what I want to do can be done in the Suite version as @Jo_Ann demonstrated. But I think I'm still too new to the software to follow the directions. Any idea what I'm doing wrong? If I can get the basic shape, I can play with heights to get it right, but I'm stuck trying to get the basic shape. Evan

Thanks for the responses and input. I'm using Home Designer Suite. I don't have a picture of the RH side, but it's a mirror image of the LH side. I recognize that my software version might not work to fully match this roof. For my purposes, I don't need it to be exact, but I'd like to get as close as I can. I have already designed two floors in my project with the living spaces the house has. Regarding, "you can probably add a second floor with zero ceiling height to achieve this", would that be a replacement for the current second floor in my project, or actually a third floor we're using to trick the software to do what we want? If this is intended to be a modification of my current second floor, how do I get windows on the size with zero roof height and how do I split the entire space into two rooms lengthwise given that I already have multiple rooms that don't run in parallel set up? If the answer is to use the dormer tool and create another level with knee walls, how do I get the very big dormer to go all the way to the edge? If the suggestion is actually to create a third level with zero height on one side, how do I avoid having effectively a third level on the side with regular height? Thanks again for the input and help wrestling with this. Evan

Hi, I'm trying to create plans for an already built house (long story). Having trouble figuring out how to design the roof. Please see the attached pictures. What I'm finding tricky is that the long portion of the roof, from the back of the house to the front of the house, goes below the height where the roof ends on the back side of the house. (It comes well below the top of the second floor in the front of the house - see side view.) The second story rooms in the front of the house are almost like giant dormers. I tried creating dormers, but can't get them to extend the full width. Can't find another way to do this. All suggestions are appreciated. Evan