Help with roof lines? Beginner unable to figure out the software...

[idrivea911]

I'm new to Chief Architect/Home Designer, coming from years of product design in solidworks. I was able to make my 1st floor and 2nd floor plans, but I can't figure out how to get the proper roof lines. The house is a cape at its core. But it has a couple of extensions and dormers that I can't figure out how to contend with. The attached pics are some plans a designer made in Revit from when we were planning an extension (I did a bit of cut/pasting to cover the extension). I'm trying to put together an As-Built in Home Designer so I can play around with other changes I might make to the floor plan. I also attached a screenshot of what the roof looks like in HD with some of the issues I'm trying to fix.

 

 

 

I have watched videos about "ignore top floor" where I treat the 2nd floor like an attic, and raise the 1st floor roof ~10". That's what's shown in the screenshot. That looks better than what I had in my 1st run. But I still can't get the roof lines to split. And I can't figure out how to get half the house at 10.5/12 and half at 6/12 pitch. When I make the change in the wall properties, the ridge line shifts towards the front of the house since it still starts both slopes at the 10" above Floor 1 ceiling.

 

Also, I don't know where HD stores my files so I haven't been able to share. Hello there is appreciated as well.

[y-g-m-n]

to adjust roof pitch.

Go to 2d floor plan.

Select wall where the roof plane starts in the top plate ( bottom of slope)

OPen up the edit screen for this wall.

Go to structure tab.

Adjust roof pitch to what ever you want.

 

DO this for all walls that do not have the default roof pitch

 

IF wall is a gable end then select gable.

 

And as always for me..

After auto roofs is done I may have to adjust the roof planes it generates to what I want.