glennw

Yes, can be done with invisible walls as Mick says. The trick is to know where to place the walls and what to do next. Place the invisible walls to define the area of your raised roof - ignore the walls you have already drawn to define your rooms. Raise the ceiling height of the rooms defined by your invisible walls and your real walls. One critical thing is the placement of the invisible wall that defines how far back the raised ceiling heights go. It needs to be back at least as far as where the side invisible walls meet the valleys. Have a play and you will see what I mean Leave auto roofs and split screen on as you do this and you will see the effects as you change things.

This is a perfect example of when Plan Views tool could help. And don't forget the Aerial View tool as well.

Can you post the annotation sets that are causing the problem to see if others can duplicate the behaviour.

You can snap to a Place Point, but you cannot select a Place Point. You can open it's dbx and move it with a double click - it will then become the current point. When you use Place Point, it becomes the Current Point, ahead of all the other Place Points. If you delete a Place Point the next previous Place Point becomes the current one. You can't individually delete a Place Point, you can only use Delete to delete them going backwards in the drawing order, or you can delete them all with the Delete Temporary Points tool. Read the help file on Current Point. The Place Point tool is probably the wrong tool to be using. Try using the Point Marker tool instead. And if you can't snap to or select a Point/Marker it is probably because the text, markers layer is locked.

Try an Endpoint Snap if you are trying to snap to a Point Marker. Points/Markers snaps to a Place Point but not a Point Marker.

The weird thing about that snapping bug is that once you get the ceiling plane to snap to the outside of the wall lining, You can do it over and over again without any problem.

Yes, in System Preferences>Mouse>Point & Click>Scroll Direction: Natural

That snapping problem happens quite a bit and I don't know an easy answer apart from dragging it a bit further past the wall.

First one - the balcony fascia. You have the balcony railing wall defined as a Fir Stud wall which really only gives you framing. The front of the balcony gets it's information from the wall. So, change the material in the balcony rail wall definition. The roofs are a mess which i haven't got time to troubleshoot and work out how you did everything. I noticed that baselines were in the wrong location, etc. Why not auto build the roofs?

This is the trick. BUT, you have the Walls, Main Layer Only checked so that in plan you are not dragging the ceiling over the whole wall, you are only dragging it over the main layer, so that the main layer is stopping at the ceiling and the wall lining is continuing up to the roof. So, in your plan Blue Print layer set, make sure layer Walls, Main Layer Only is unchecked. Then drag the ceilings over the walls to the outside of the wall lining. I opened Eric's plan and it didn't seem to show the walls continuing up as required. Just as a heads up, the Stop At Ceiling Above setting is used when you have different height flat ceilings either side of the wall. It causes the wall to only build up to the lower ceiling of the two and not to the higher ceiling. Oh, another thing, you ceiling planes are not meeting properly at the apex. They appear to join in plan, but are not joining properly in section view - the apex of the ceiling planes are at different heights. You should use the Join Roof Planes tool to join them properly. Just one other thing that I found confusing is that you have an arrow with the text "Ceiling Slope" - there is no indication as to wether the slope is up or down. For me, I would expect the arrow to point down the slope (as for a roof), not up the slope.

I am assuming that you want something like this. If so, you are making some fundamental mistakes. I have to race out for a few hours, but can go through it when I get back.

One problem may be that it doesn't show door swings or any other cad items. This is a copy of your earlier plan without any fitout, all 3D objects would display when added, but no cad. So maybe you can't get exactly what you are after, but maybe you can get close.

You don't have to click every door individually if that is what you are saying. Use Match Properties>Is Drawn Closed In 3D to narrow down your selection. Then you can use the cross section slider to drop the cutting plane so that it goes through the doors.

Do you want to flip it horizontally or vertically?

You can always increase the Button Size in Preferences. But I can't see that as being a solution for you.

I'll throw this in for what it is worth - which is probably nothing. It is something I discovered whilst messing with my 5K mac screen. If you go to Preferences...Displays... I am assuming you have Scaled selected and then Default. You can access a greater range of resolutions by holding the Option key and selecting Scaled. Have a look here https://everymac.com/systems/apple/imac/imac-aluminum-tapered-edge-faq/how-to-run-imac-retina-5k-at-full-resolution.html and scroll down to the Default Display Options heading. Just before that there is an interesting note about "pixel doubled" and native resolution. Although, are you saying that the only real problem is with a 3D view? Do you have Edge Smoothing When Idle checked in your camera dbx?

Do you want to auto build roofs for the whole house? If so, you need to turn on auto build roofs and then set up the roof directives for all the external walls. In the case of the garage roof, make the front wall a Full Gable (no second pitch because that will result in a gambrel roof). You have the correct settings for the side walls of the garage. If you want to do it manually, do as Robert said above. I, personally would go for auto roofs because if you edit the plan, the roof will auto update - just my personal preference though.

Best to read the help file and have a play. If you still have problems, post again and maybe attach a plan.

Use the Vertical Stacking option?

Sorry, I missed one step in my description (Layout). Glad you got it figured.

Doug, Tools...Layout Page Information. Any entries you made in the Revision Specification dbx will be listed down the bottom in the Page Revisions section. You can select an entry and edit it.

General Plan Defaults...uncheck "Ignore Casing For Opening Resize"?.

That is normally controlled by the Stretch To Fit setting in the Define Material dbx.

I'm not sure about your version, but there are a couple of ways to do this manually. Alt+Q and set Resize About to Outer Surface. Now when you select the wall, the grips will be on the outer surface of the wall. Reference the foundation floor. Select the wall, drag and snap it to the outer surface of the referenced foundation wall. Another way is to draw a line parallel to the wall and set it a fixed and known distance from the outer layer of your wall. Copy the line and Paste Hold Position down to the foundation level. Select the foundation wall and move it the same distance away from the line as the upper wall.

And don't forget that you can use "Import Default Settings" where you get a choice (from a list of all the defaults) of exactly what defaults you want to import from any other plan or template.