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Once again you came to the rescue, Curt. Deleting and rebuilding the garage wall did the trick. That roof plane you referred to was one plane on the gable wall. Had to do some adjustments, but managed to get it ok. Not sure what you're referring to on that small gable wall, to change the type. Anyway, it looks like I want right now, so I'm afraid to fiddle around any more. Thanks again.

I'm trying to place a small gable roof on the side of the garage wall. But when I build the roof, that section is all skewed, as per the attached pics. I'm thinking it has something to do with the break wall tool I used on the second floor roof. The skewed result appears to be somehow influenced by that break wall. My plan is attached. Any help would be appreciated. Mark's House Apr 30.plan.zip

I'm trying to add a stair to my deck. The railing is designated post to ceiling. When I drop in a stair, two new posts are generated at the top of the stair. I want to replace those extra posts with newels. I've tried everything I can think of. Any ideas?

Kilgore's suggestion worked very well. Thanks so much

I'm trying to change the deck planking so the orientation will follow the house contours. I've used a Room Divider to section off each portion of the deck where I want the plank orientation to change. In the Room Spec...Deck...Plank Direction, I've unchecked Automatic, and entered 90 degrees for the first right-angle turn in my deck, but it doesn't work. Sure I'm missing something simple

I'm trying to model an irregular shaped seven-sided pool deck. All sides are different lengths, so all angles are as well. So I laid out the perimeter of the deck with CAD points at each of the seven vertices, then joined these points together with CAD lines. In the General Plan defaults, under allowed angles, I've added various additional allowed angles, e.g., 2.5 degrees, 5 degrees, etc. But when I attempt to build straight deck railing, following my CAD line perimeter as a guide. it only allows the 7.5 degrees angle, and ignores the additional allowed angles. What am I missing?

Many thanks for all contributions. Special thanks to Curt Johnson, whose clear directions were easily followed and the results were perfect.

Yes. I broke the wall so that I could designate that portion as a full gable wall.

I use the Build>Roof>Build Roof>Build Roof Planes. Is that what you mean by automatic?

I'm having a devil of a time trying to change a pitch on a portion of my garage roof. As shown in the image, I have a small gable wall section one side of the roof. When I open up the dialogue box, and increase the pitch of this roof section, there is no change. Whenever I change the pitch of the rest of the roof, by selecting all wall sections except the gable piece, all pitches change, including the gable section. Is there some order I must follow to accomplish this??

I think I figured it out myself, by ballooning the basement wall thru the ceiling of the first floor, which got rid of those weird wall breaks.

After installing the stairs and landing on the first floor, I tried to create the Auto Stairwell, but got the following msg' "Could not connect new stairwell railings to some of the existing walls or ceilings, so could not make the "open below" stairwell room. If you connect these railings to the appropriate walls you can then make the new room yourself". So then i went to the second floor, and designated the "stairwell area" room as "open below". But this resulted in some weird holes in the outside wall, as shown in the attached image. I've attached a zipped plan file. Any help would be appreciated. House IV.zip

Scott, that did the trick. Thanks for hanging in there with me to see this solved. Thanks as well to all contributors. You guys are simply amazing!!

Here's the zipped plan file. including Perry's suggestion. House III.zip

Scott, I already posted the plan, above. Perry, your suggestion "almost" has the problem solved. As shown in the attached image, the gable wall now shows the flooring layer on the second floor. Maybe that's as good as I can hope for???

That's the problem, Scott. The inside gable end of the cathedral ceiling has no supporting wall underneath. I even tried placing another interior wall there, make it a "full gable wall", and check it as "balloon through ceiling", same as I did for the opposing exterior wall. But it still showed up with the exterior siding showing. Any other ideas?

Thanks, glennw. The inside gable does show up when I use the Full Camera, but the surface material of the gable is the exterior siding on the second floor. Can I fix this?

yes, the floor camera.

Thanks, lbuttery. Here's the zipped plan file. House II.zip

I'm trying to attach the plan, but can't seem to upload. The file is 4,341 KB, which is well within the 10MB limit?!? Tried three times, same result.

Thanks, Drawzilla. Your suggestion worked for the outside gable end. But the inside gable end of the roof has no supporting wall underneath. Any further thoughts?

As shown in image 6, my family room has a cathedral ceiling. When I unselect "ceiling over this room", the gable wall extension disappears in 3D view, as shown in image 5 (exterior) and image 6 (interior wall). Any suggestions would be appreciated.

After many attempts, I managed to change the roof pitches as needed. The trick seemed to be, make sure ALL walls sections that are under that roof section have the pitch changes made. As usual, thanks to all for your great input.

The roof pitches of my house differ from the first to the second floor. The pitch on the upper roof section is much steeper than the sections on the first floor (front and back of house). When I generate a roof, all sections have the same pitch. How do I adjust individual roof section pitches??

Many thanks for all the suggestions. glennw's suggestion did the trick, by setting the Newel width to zero.