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Scott, I think he wants to rotate the label another 90deg (180deg in total) so that it is upside down. Why, I don't know.

You assign a window level (Vertical Stacking) in the Options Panel in the window dbx. So you might assign the lower windows as Level 0 and the higher level windows as Level 1. You can then control which vertical stacking level displays in plan view by changing the Vertical Stacking Level in the Window Defaults dbx - the non default windows will appear light grey. A search in the help file for Window Levels should give you more details.

Michael beat me by a couple of seconds.

I think Polyline Solids are the way to go. Curved roofs will be a real pain trying to get the geometry and eave detail to work. One big drawback with curved roofs is the max roof slope is 89deg - as far as I know you cant draw one with a 90deg slope which means it will never sit properly on a wall. By the way, in X13 we have material (and other) defaults for Polyine Solids.

Alan, These are the choices you get with migration.

That's a very small building! And a very steep roof!

In my template plan, I have Room Fill set to automatically display so that whenever I create a room, it auto fills with a light transparent coloured fill. This way, I can instantly see if my room definitions are correct.

This may get you going:

I can see some real problems trying to keep water out of that roof. I think it needs a bit more work yet.

Use Edit Area and Transform/Replicate.

Larry, you don't need a second floor. You can drag the top of a railing up or down in any view type. You cannot drag the bottom of a railing up in any view type. Hence, you need to convert the railing to a wall, drag the bottom up or down and then convert the wall back to a railing.

If you build walls in the attic level, they will not build through the roof plane - they will build from top of ceiling joists of the floor below up to underside of the roof plane. If you build railings in the attic level, they will build up from top of ceiling joists of the floor below through the roof plane.

I assume that the railing would be horizontal, not matching the roof slope. You should be able to draw some railings on the attic level which will build above the roof. You will probably get a warning message but just ignore it. If you need to adjust heights, you can do it in elevation. Although, you can adjust the top height in any view by dragging it. To drag the bottom up, select the railing in an elevation view. Change it to a non railing wall, drag the bottom up, change it back to a railing. With this one, I didn't change the bottom height - I increased the bottom rail height to lift it out of the roof.

OK. So what you are trying to do gets a little complicated for a newby - too complicated to describe. Do you have Zoom?

The information that was on the .dwg is a whole lot of cad data. ie, they are all (mostly - the driveways are a cad block) individual cad items. I assume you want to leave the house where it is - which I would recommend - and move all the survey data. You need to be able to group select all the survey data (block it if you want) so that you can move and rotate it. I looks like you imported the .dwg all onto the one layer - Cad, Default. I would not do that, I would import the data onto it's own layers - so that you can display only the information you need. You will probably need to create some new layer sets to help do what you want.

Look up the help file on auto roofs and roof directives in walls

No problem doing both buildings in the one plan. Draw the floor plan for the granny flat and change its floor level in relation to the existing house. ie, I assume the existing house has a floor level of zero. If the floor level of the granny flat is 3m less than that, make it's floor level -3000. How did you change the floor level for the granny flat? I am guessing you changed the default - which will change all the existing floor levels that use the default.. You could do that, but you would first have to change all the existing house floor levels to something other than the default. Better to leave the existing as they are.

You need to build rooms with walls/railings on the front and back that define the roof over.

Seems like Michael and I maybe thinking along the same path. If so... the overhang is the overhang on the top of the shed roof that roofs the porch. Auto roof can get you most of the way there. The fact that it is difficult to do with auto roofs is usually a red flag to me that the roof would be difficult to build in real life. In this case, how would you build it? Almost, if not impossible to build! (I am particularly talking about the gable overhangs)

The reason you can't see the terrain in plan view is that you have the terrain on the Framing,Deck Framing layer and that layer is turned off in plan view (the Default Set).

That is what the U shaped auto stair tool does - so may be better to start with that and edit the winders. This stair only comes with 45deg winders and a split landing. So have a look at how they work and take it from there. Or...look at the help file for details on how to build one manually.

You can't 'open' the .dwg, you Import it into Chief. Yes, provide a link to the plan, or zip it. This is what your .dwg looks like.

That problem is being caused by the junction of the upper floor platform, external wall and roof bearing location. Can you do a quick detail of that junction. Can you make the lower pitch flatter than what you have?

Make the selected wall a Partition Wall. Make the lower pony wall a Partition wall.

The only way I know to line up a pattern or texture between 2 roof planes is to uncheck Global Symbol Mapping and then create a copy of the roof material for each roof plane. You can then use the material's Horizontal Offset to move the pattern or texture. But...you will never be able to go around all of the roofs and line the all up unless you layout your roofs with regard to the spacing of the standing seams.