Jo_Ann

You raised part of the 1st floor level, to create the split level. Of course the interior wall and the foundation level had to rise as well. WHAT DID YOU EXPECT??? Turn on the floor reference tool. Go to the foundation level and draw an interior wall where the missing wall is supposed to be. Align it with the wall above. WHY are you using siding walls in the interior of the house?! Your stairs and their surrounding walls need a lot of work, too.

Fix the 2nd floor wall, then rebuild roof.

If you raise the 'build roof' pitch to 14°, that will allow you to raise the 2nd floor ceiling back to 2300mm. The front wall shed roof looks steeper, so I raised that to 22°. To better display the split levels, floor 1 (2 levels) walls are beige colored. The 2nd floor is white. The attic walls are green.

You still are not saying what version of Suite you have. The main rear wall of the house is set as a railing?! It is very confusing what you want the roof to look like. Is it pic 1, pic2, or neither? In your pic of the real house, the outbuilding section on the rear, doesn't look like either of these roof pics.

Assuming that you have already set both end walls of the deck as 'gable', call for a roof over the deck. Open the deck room dialog, and start lowering the 'finished ceiling' of the room until the roof behaves the way you want it to look. For the closet, open the closet dialog, check 'shelf ceiling', and then start lowering the 'finished ceiling' until the gap goes away.

Not really sure about what you want it to look like, just from your description. Is it supposed to look like this?

Depending on how desperate you are... Set the room type for the entire 1st floor structure as a 'deck'. The deck floor structure 8 3/8". You will then need to set the floor finish (standard is 7/8") If you want room labels to show, do NOT change the room type, but change the room name. 8 3/8" is still not 9" (?), but it is a lot closer than 12 5/8".

Read about Lower Wall Type When Split bu Butting Roof. You do not have that option with Architectural. Cover up either the interior or the exterior with the custom backsplash, and change the backsplash material.

Like Eric said...everything looks correct in newer versions of the plan (I haven't tried opening it in the 2021 version). Pro 2018 opens it looking just like you said, so it must be a glitch that they fixed? The attic walls show correctly in the 2D plan view, so there's nothing to correct there that I can see. So...in the 3D view, select and drag the attic walls into the correct position.

Everything Eric posted in his videos is 'spot on'. The only thing he didn't address (I believe) is the 2nd floor back wall roof plane. You built the 2nd floor with the back wall directly over the 1st floor back wall. Move that wall (2nd floor back wall) closer to the front (gabled wall) until the roof plane is where you want it.

Is it the invading/protruding part of the bedroom roof, into the vaulted living area, what you are referring to? The only way to fix that is to cover it with a carefully set sloped soffit. Place the soffit in the attic level, then drag it down. Placing it on the attic layer, will prevent it from hindering your view of the living area, when using the dollhouse view camera.

This is not perfect, but close. It is all done using only the tools available in Suite (except the gable millwork decorations). The garage roof is enabled by careful use of 2 invisible wall "rooms" with "no roof in this room" setting. One "room" is at the end of the porch (next to garage). The other "room" is on the back wall of the garage (adjacent to the porch). These "rooms" allow better control of the overhangs, that are causing trouble in that area.

This floor plan, in particular, requires some unconventional strategy to get auto build roof to work somewhat correctly. You will be doing a disservice to yourself if you do not also add the porch and the garage bump-out extension, when building this roof.

LawB10, the plan is not corrupted. It was done in an early version of Suite, and that is how it will display. I think the floor and ceiling have no ceiling finish thickness, because SBBranch set it that way for some unknown reason. In this particular plan, I think that drawing all the interior walls before getting the roof correct, is detrimental.

https://www.homedesignersoftware.com/support/article/KB-00210/using-open-below-rooms-to-define-an-opening-to-a-lower-floor.html

I don't know if this will help you, because all the roof settings are very sensitive to room size and ceiling heights, and this was all done with "auto build roof". If you manage to get your main roof correct, then the projection (at the peak of the main gable) is easy to do with manual roof control. Eric...What happened to your video? Kusmic Lane roof.plan

That is true. But with Suite, this is probably the only way to make it look correct, and also be a floor that the stairs will respond to. The stair landing method also works, but doesn't look right because the tread overhang can not be removed.

I see that Suite does not have a foundation wall listed in the wall toolbar. So, draw ANY type of wall on the foundation level, then open it and change it to a stem wall. To fix the garage stairs: 1. delete the stairs 2. On the foundation level, I see that you already have a foundation "divider" wall (creating a "raised area" room). Open that wall and change it to a "room divider" wall (because the foundation type wall is causing problems in the garage level 1). 3. Open the "raised area" room, and change floor (C) to -30" (this raises that area 5"). 4. On the garage level, make sure that the existing " room divider" wall (that you placed?) is aligned with the wall below. 5. Redraw the stairs. You may notice that you now have a gap between the raised area and the garage floor. That is because the "raised area" has been raised 5", but the floor structure slab is only 4" thick. Place a soffit outside the garage on the foundation level, and set it's "floor to bottom" to -28", then move it into position against the foundation "room divider", resize it, and change it's material to concrete. The gap on floor 1 should be gone (covered by the soffit).

I'm confused as to which style roof you want, but I think that the roof pitches that you mentioned are not going to work. The shed/dormer, and porch roofs need to be a lower pitch. The main gable needs to be a higher pitch. Which style are you wanting?

I think that you are wanting to bring more attention to the height of the house, and divert attention from the really long length of the structure? I would start with the front door. Adding a sidelight gives the entry more impact. Make the front porch wider, so that you can add board & batten siding in that area for interest (also gives the porch more oomph). Add the stone to the entire front bay projection. Lastly...window boxes added beneath the 2 smaller windows help to visually elongate/heighten that area (at very little cost), and add some seasonal color.

If you have turned OFF "auto build roof" (as per your last post), then why would you think that your overhang should rebuild?

You should be seeing these dialog boxes. You would then choose 16" oc from the library drop down, that also shows.

It has nothing to do with the pitch of the roof. Extend the left wall across as shown. In the new "room" that is highlighted, start lowering the ceiling until the roof blends with the roof on the left.

When opening your plan in Windows 10, the 3d cam shows the mirror correctly. I started a new plan, and placed the same mirror (from the library) in the new plan. The 3d cam shows the mirror correctly. So, I used the rainbow tool to see the define material boxes of the mirror in each plan. The material color settings and the properties settings are both identical, in each plan. However, the kettles do not look the same. ??? You are using a mac and maybe that has something to do with it? OR, maybe check the settings for the graphics card on your laptop. This might be something that tech support can help with.