Jo_Ann

Yes, you can do the steeple with the tools that Suite has. It does involve a 3rd floor (and also a 'room within a room') but it also uses some trickery to get the roof to build correctly.

Is this what you are trying to produce?

Soffits are good for everything!

Ha Ha! I would rather he gave me a winning super lotto ticket!

Thanks, Mick. It was a pita.

Oops. Ran into a snag. When opening a 2010 file with a 2015 version, sometimes things don't display the same. When opened with 2015, the garage door wall appears raised. It is caused by the invisible room I needed to set up to get the roof to build correctly. Open the room dbx (invisible room) , set the room type as 'garage', then bury the floor structure (floor 'C') at -40", to get rid of it. Reset the garage doors 'floor to bottom' at 0".

The 1st pic is the original cottage. Pics 2&3 are the vertical flip of the cottage. My floor plan might help you with your settings. Pay close attention to the garage/house NON connection on level1. Delete your 2nd floor and rebuild using blank plan with finished ceiling height as shown (or do a 'save as', then delete the 2nd floor). Align walls as shown. Pay attention to ALL floor/ceiling settings, roof pitches, and walls. The roof between the front breakfast room and garage is a problem area with auto roofs. You could add a sloped soffit to make it look better. When the roof is correct, turn off auto build roof, and rejoin the walls between the garage and house. Invisible walls will probably be needed to maintain some floor/ceiling heights in that area. Go slowly. Redraw the interior walls on the 2nd floor and raise the ceiling heights within the usable rooms. Because I had to trace the floor plan (to work on it in HDA10) the dimensions are not exact, but they are close. It may not be perfect, but I hope this helps. WeebleSue cottage flip.plan

As near as I can tell: cottage pic and cottage rear pic do not match each other. Your plan footprint (even if reversed) does not match the cottage images. You should never have added interior walls/cabinets/ fixrures until you had the footprint and roof structure correct. You should start over.

It looks like she is leaning toward a 'beachy' craftsman style, and I think pics #12,13,14, really follow through with the rest of the house design style. Looks good, Eric!

Ha Ha. Thanks, LawB10. Have you tried it?

Thanks, Eric. I hope it can benefit DavisR, using the limited tools of Suite.

This is mostly done with the tools that Suite has. The arch was created in sketchup and imported, because the arch in the library (exteriors>landscaping>arbors and arches) did not work well. The walls and roof above the arch were created by adding a 2nd floor over that area. Wedges (library>shapes) were also used around the arch to fill in wall space. The ledge and walls below the pillars are soffits. Once something like this has been created, you can use the edit area tool to copy/paste if you need more than one. This would be easier if Suite had pony walls, but I don't think that has been added to Suite.

My idea for the bedroom roof.

For roof overhangs on individual walls, read this kb article: https://www.homedesignersoftware.com/support/article/KB-00077/specifying-different-roof-overhangs-on-different-walls.html It might not work well if it is just over the bay window where you are wanting to change the overhang. A manual bay window might work better. After you are completely finished building the roof, turn OFF 'auto build roof'. In the 3d window, you can then use the paint can to change the roof on only the bay window. If you rebuild the roof again, you will have to reapply the material. As Mick said, select the bay window, the hit tab to select an individual window. You can then open that window dbx and change your color.

What Mick means, is... uncheck 'upper pitch' on the gable walls. Open each side wall and set the upper/lower pitch there.

Did you try to place a rug from 'flooring>rugs' ? You have to place a rug object 1st. In my library version it is found in 'interiors>accessories>rugs'. THEN you can choose a material from 'flooring/rugs', or choose a style of your own.

Draw the porch using railing walls, set the rail tab to 'no rail', set 'large' posts, and set post to 'ceiling' or 'beam'. Open the room dbx and set the room type as 'porch'. On the structure tab, set 'roof over this room', use 'soffit for ceiling'. You should now have a concrete floor, and posts to the ceiling (depicted in your pdf). To eliminate the 'attic' end walls, make them invisible (on the attic level).

Does the patio have a roof over it that looks like the pic?

Not really enough info....but is this what it is supposed to look like?

In the tiny profile thumbnail, the area Eric circled shows the left wall is raised. In your program pic, the left wall roof is extended all the way down to the top of floor one. Which photo is correct?

I still don't know what 'brick' you guys are talking about? All I see is dark fp plank flooring.

I also tried every room, and changing to deck room, then back to master bedroom was the only way I could force a change. Strange

Very puzzling floor situation. HDA2015 does NOT have a default box to check (in the dbx structure tab) next to floor structure (L), so this means that Suite doesn't have it either (checking that box would fix the problem) The general tab is checked for use room type, and also for use default for room type. Yet, the 4" floor structure still won't change to the default 12 5/8", for master bedroom room type. Open a 3d framing view and vertically tile it next to the 2d plan view. You can see that there is no floor framing in the rooms with the incorrect floor structure. Open the master bedroom dbx and change the room type to deck. You can see the floor change in the 3d view. Re-open the room dbx and change the room type back to master bedroom. You should now see floor framing in the 3d view, and the structure tab should now show the floor structure (L) as 12 5/8". I have no idea why this was so stubborn to fix, or why a runaround was necessary to force it to work , but I tried everything else I could think of with no results. You will have to change each incorrect room individually. You will now need to make some adjustments in the garage level 0, too. Also, you have some fixing to do on the 2nd floor if you plan to use it.

That is 'Z' fighting. Go to the knowledge base articles and enter 'Z fighting' in the search bar. There are several articles about it.

Check device manager>display adapter to make sure that your nvidia card shows there (and is the card being used by windows10). Pressing windows+x is supposed to bring up a window allowing you to access device manager quickly.