mgianzero

David, I've followed you quite a bit on the forum and you are quite knowledgable and I greatly appreciate your assisting me. Thank you so much for helping! In regards to what I am trying to do, I will attach my HDP design plan for you to look at. I am aware of various ceiling and fascia heights when building the roof plans. But what I think you are not seeing is that the auto-roof tool is generating 95% of the roof I would like - which is a simple hip roof design. However, since my home is already built, they customized some roof planes a bit. They chose to simplify the main roof ridge on the lower section of the home (the single story part) to make one long ridge instead of two staggered ones. The architect also chose to change the overhang over the front door a bit. Both of these modifications require a manual edit of roof planes after the roof is auto-built I believe. I've been able to fix the main roof lower ridgeline. However the overhang is the problem. I've gotten the general look from above by merely overlapping two modified roof planes. But then I don't know how to merge the planes at their intersection. I know about and have used the "joining roof planes" tool, but I could not find that this applied to fix my situation. But, perhaps it does and I am just not understanding it fully. Attached are both my original plans (the way HDP draws the roof) and my modified plans (with roof plan I showed an image of in my prior post). Please see if you can fix my roof planes, and then tell me how you did it and I would be most appreciative. Main House.plan Main House (fixed roof).plan

I'm using Home Designer Pro 2017 to remodel my current home. I have original plans of home which I'm using to re-create my home. Most of house is complete, but having trouble with roof planes. When my house roof planes are auto-drawn it comes out like the pic #1 below with a funny overhang above the front door. But I really want the roof to look more like how I had to modify it in pic #2. But the only way I could figure how to do this was to have the roof planes intersect on their own. So then when you look from below, you can see how the planes overlap under the eaves. So how do I merge the intersecting roof planes to eliminate these underlying planes such as seen in pic #3? Or should I had edit the roof planes differently? HDP video tutorials don't discuss editing roof planes in this much detail. Also, I couldn't find any answer in the knowledge base. Marc

I'm a DIY'er trying to remodel home / garage, and I just bought a copy of Home Designer Pro 2017 for Mac. From my snapshot, I'm trying to draw my overhang which sits adjacient to garage in my pic. There are just a few posts that come to to the slab and no walls, overhang is just the roof line with a long soffit underneath. I did this by defining a room using "room divider" and then defined room type as a porch (an open room with only a roof line, support beams and posts and slab for flooring). But notice that the "slab" underneath appears higher than the surrounding slab. Why is this? What am I doing wrong? Marc

I have a dwg file that I received from a surveryor of my property years ago. The file has both my home's landmark features as well as contour lines. I know it's a good file in that I can import it into other CAD programs such as Sketchup. But when I try to import it using "File->Import Drawing (DXF) ..." the file is non-selectable or greyed-out. What am I doing wrong? I am using my Home Designer Pro 2017 (Build 18.2.1.2OSX) for Mac that I just purchased. Marc