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I really don't understand why anyone would do this home as a truss roof....which makes me think that its not...but if it is, i bet the dutch gables are overframed. I don't think we are paying attention the cost implications of modifying a truss roof such as this. I bet comps in the area dont sustain sinking $80K into a roof re-framing, and thats a sunk investment since it adds no value to the home. Even what Jo-ann proposed would be a huge expense on the roof, cutting the center section of trusses, and redoing all the gable trusses...this is another complete re-frame. Also, go check under the house and scan that and see if there are pilings/piers/grade beam/post and girder at center bearing. Again would advise against this...unless its not a truss system at the gables...point being...go take a scanner and scan up in the attic space and take some pix. I put my money on it being stick framed and that the hallway is center bearing midspan and youre on 2x4 or 2x6 rafters with collar ties...otherwise someone just really wanted to play around with trigonometry or these are track homes.

I dont think I have file size limitations in my forum, go ahead and post it there and I can check it out and ill post the answer back here. click on the image in my signature

would be a great idea to attach your .plan file as well

for those that dont want to download the zip. These are the contained images:

Redoing the roof structure for an open ceiling is a significant expense that adds no value to the home. I would consider hiring a designer who can help you create the effect of a larger-looking space. From a financial advisory standpoint, this is when I would suggest selling the home and buying one that already has an open ceiling (without knowing all the details about the current home). Alternatively, design around the deck, create an atrium, and extend out (if the lot supports it) to have your new addition include an open ceiling.

If you really get used to them they are faster than just drawing with walls

report it, its a glitch with the materil. In the meantime, use the colored mirror and change the color

To clarify, label offset values are not available in the home designer line. So if you had an offset label previously, then you may have received a template plan that was built using the Chief Architect Interiors or Premiere Line which has the ability to store label offsets. You could revert back to using your old plan templates then. for example, this is the OOTB Home Designer 2024 Residential Template with label offsets established in the Premiere product line. Profile-Modified With Label Offset.plan

Were you working with someone that had the premiere line? Label offsets are not available in the dialog for windows in Home Designer. You can grab the small label edit handle and manually drag them for an offset

Are you certain that your existing roof structure is a truss system? If so I don't see any economical options so I would probably go with a different design approach. If you were hell bent on an open ceiling then you'd have to terminate the truss at your hall and throw in some post and girders under floor to pick up the load and then you could rebuild the second half. Expensive though. Not the right detail but to illustrate:

Hit the gear icon and turn on additional panels: BTW this is the Tips & Techniques Forum

You guys actually picked up a ton of new features from the premiere line that are big productivity tools. As stated earlier, easy to export as dae and get raytrace rendering in twinmotion which is free. See new features: https://www.homedesignersoftware.com/whats-new/#whats-new-summary

I think raytracing is always going to remain in the premiere line. You can always export your model and raytrace in Twinmotion

put this in your wall: then in your wall label: and then turn on the layer for wall labels in your plan view

you must be using the same camera, instead, duplicate the camera and annotate that view

thats pretty typical with cross platform design, thats why many of us either learn and hold licenses in many softwares or become very proficient in one so as to recreate it. Ultimately it's beneficial to find an architectural designer that utilizes Chief. You can always pay a technician to build the model for you

why not post your .plan file here

Do they have roof groups?

Turn off auto build roofs and start manually editing your roof planes. Alternatively Chief supports roof groups so the roof on the garage/addition will build independently of the main roof

Skp mesh isnt editable in Home Designer so most of us would just redraw the building as it would be quick enough to do for a proficient technician. Otherwise you might have to give sketchup a try. What is the scope of your work on this project?>

Sorry, I’ll try and be more clear..home designer and chief have an internal symbol mapping that happens within the software separate from a base UV map being applied to a mesh. This is by intent in order to expedite the process of complicated mapping on cabinet doors but when you export, this internal UV remapping is no longer applied and the base UV map is exported. This is expected behavior. You would need someone in the chief premier line make you a custom door symbol if you wanted the stiles and rails independently mapped.

how do you intend to achieve this in real-world conditions? If you are not building a step, are you building rake walls?

You would need to assign a unique UV, as-in a unique material. DAE format groups components based on UV, so even though chief has some internal function to rotate UV's, the export will not follow the UV orientation based on export. Create a new material to apply to the panels separate from your rails and stiles

Are you intending to create a stepped foundation?

Why not put a door next to a window?