Doug_N

You can do that although the answer of how to do it is sort of counter intuitive. Also, the part that connects the arrow to the leader line is the part I am referring to,

Good suggestion and I am going to bake that into my template.

Yes there is. You can do it with room poly lines and then assign a macro to each polyline area like this %$rma1=area% where $rma1 is a variable that stores the area for that room polyline. Do that for each room, and then you can make a text box that adds them all up. "Total living area for apt 1 is:%$tarea = $rma1 + $rma2...% and so on until you have them for every area. The total is generated automatically, and if you change a room area and refit the polyline for that room, the total is automatically updated as well.

And if you don't have enough segments, after you do the text you can break the leader and add more segments. The "3" key is very useful.

I agree with Eric, this is not a project that an auto generated roof will complete. You will blow hours tinkering with invisible walls and still get questionable results. Here is one that I did by modifying the roof after getting an autobuild. It was pretty easy to do and achieves what you were looking for. The siding was changed in my model so that you could tell which was mine and which was your original. 1668575055_Desiredroof-DN.plan

Michael kind of shamed me into doing with substance. Not perfect but pretty close. Substance is limited to 3 colours and the sample had 4 colours. Oh well.

Yup I am sure that I could, just don't want to reinvent the wheel if I don't have to. Feeling just a tad lazy today. lol.

Anyone have a material like this? I don't see anything in the catalogue.

Hi Cam, So I played with your plan file, and noted that you have some extra roof planes. I deleted them, turned off auto roof rebuild, and changed the slope of the shed roof as Eric mentioned in his earlier post. I attached the revised file so that you can see what I did. You may be able to apply these techniques to your project. 778952992_Piper_3rdRound2_4_2021 (1).plan

Ahh I see. Well the gullwing roof is not too difficult to do manually either. Do one side of the building using two roof planes, one for the shallow slope and one for the steeper. Use the join tool to put them together. Pull the peak back from the ridgeline, then select both planes. Copy and paste then reflect about the center of the house and you should have it.

Do the gullwing roof planes first using auto build. Turn auto build off, and do the other section with manual planes.

For the gullwing part, delete all roof planes and turn on automatically build roofs. Select the two walls that are parallel to the ridge and then in the roof dialog of the wall dbx, enter the pitch for the upper section. (The lower section should be the default pitch). Also enter the distance from the baseline to the change in pitch. Your gull wing walls should now be generated. Turn off auto generate roofs and draw the remaining plans. Set the pitch for those and adjust to suit. There you go,.

Just another place for vermin to congregate and cause havoc for the homeowner. If possible, this type of design should be for an open roof, or with the timbers in Tudor style sort of bas-relief.

If so this was solved by going to the attic plan, and drawing a wall. changing it to an attic wall and then stretching it to fill the void area.

Is this the problem?

Thanks for posting that. As Eric said, you only need to include the plan file in most cases. I suggested the backup route to make sure the file was unlinked from the open file lock that CA puts on a file while open in the CA editor. Now for a couple of questions. 1) What is the specific problem that you are experiencing? 2) Is there a flat ceiling over the porch or is it cathedral? 3) Is the architectural beam and truss structure part of the problem?

Could you repost the plan? It seems that the file is not complete. Try using the backup tool to create a zip file and then upload that.

I would think that the main problem with a mechanical room off the bedroom would be the operating cycle of the equipment disturbing sleep. There is no building code prohibiting that location that I am aware of. If diligent design work is done on improving the sound transmission index, it should work if there is no other reasonable location solution.

It would be helpful if you posted the plan file.

Unfortunately you may have to update your software. The difference between x10 and x12 is well worth it.

And Eric knocks it out of the park! I was just about to suggest that when I read your reply.

Please post the plan file.

Nice touches Eric!

Ok I will have a look at that as well. Thanks Michael.