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well..found this in home designer forum which is exactly what I am trying to do L-shaped Dutch gable roof - Q&A - HomeTalk Forum CA staff state: "Home Designer Pro should give you the tools to make that happen. However, you can get really close in Home Designer Suite by using the following technique:" I'm not sure if the "tools" means manually or automatically I tried the work around in this thread and could not get it to work

just did, but I realize I could build it manually, and this video shows a good way to do it compared to what I would have tried. But is there no automatic way to do it? and why is the program dutch gabling the whole side when I only told it to do the left portion? If I make that wall back to a gable, then the front garage is correctly built as dutch gable so it has something to do with that split wall

I'm trying to do what I thought would be relatively simple. Change the gable to a dutch gable that looks like: so the roofline is over the top plate I have this, where the lower wall is broken to delineate the gable going across: but if I change the 3 walls (broken, top, right lower) to duthc gable and set the in from baseline at 24" I get: it looks like this: the one not seen looks good, but it looks like it just ignored the hip directive on the wall to the right of the broken wall Residential Template - Copy 1.plan

is your SPV any floor or a speciifc floor. Mine are any floor

are you sending both of those to layout, or are you copying the layout box and relinking for the one on the right?

I just note where my crosshairs land on the left and right by looking at what icon they are touching, and then align the main floor height to that for each one and call it close enough. The issue for me is elevations. Joe, what do you do to align those? I like Rene's point marker way. for this CA changes my floor to 0 when relinking to another SPV, or maybe it is to another plan. dont remember. I just remember it is a tad annoying

if I know it is going to a truss manufacturer, I will sometimes show a representative truss in the layout with the heel height dimensioned. garages here typically have different heel heights, so for that i just dimension in the section like rob says., and if the heel is uniform every where else I will dimension on the section of the house, or create a specific section where the heel is different and dimension that The problem with showing a specific truss in layout is if the roof gets rebuilt, CA does not maintain the order, so your layout might be left showing a dimension on white space, or worse a dimension on a completely different truss. So it can be better just to bite the bullet and create specific sections where the heels are different I suppose you could, just put all of the trusses on layout and send them as part of your package and let the truss company measure to scale. And I have been asked by the truss company if the truss is to the end of the top plate or the the exterior of the sheathing. so nothing is every straighforward from their perspective

It is not available AFAIK. it is also a global setting for build roofs. Plus I'm not sure if CA stores it with the roof plane, or if it calculates it on the fly when you open up the dialog box, in order to show it to you. I usually just dimension it on the section(s) and have it dynamically change in details based on me typing it in in a text macro (which I suppose could be your other option, although not sure it buys you much)

that seems to mask the problem. Now when I move the mouse there is a delay in the mouse pointer moving (which is now tied to the crosshairs) I tried 3 different mice, same problem. Not to mention the problem does not occur in plan view.

i tried rolling back to March but same issue.

that looks to be the studio version of the driver? is that what you are using?

i rebooted, same issue. Tried to see if it happend on X16, and got this error when just starting X16 without opening anything going to try and roll back the driver

well maybe if it happened in 1988 when I last used a mac ...

i just drew 4 walls on the stock residential template, then a back clipped cross section, so the stock layerset assocaited with that. But I did try before that, on my own plan switching to the all layers off layerset, so nothing was showing, and it was still happening. But the plan view is always fine how often are you rebooting? I get windows crashes on a regular basis when I have PBR opened (never used to before say 5 months ago), so for this reason the computer is getting rebooted on a fairly regular basis. but I will try and do a clean reboot to see if it changes anything

I just use a foundation wall, with a terrain region on either side to force a change to the correct elevation. I put a hole for the stairway, and put elevation regions on sides of the steps/landings to force the grade down. I already sent it off, but I will post it tommorow as I'd like some feedback on how to get the sidewalk flat. and the region on this side of the retaining wall to follow the elevation of the sidewalk, but also slope towards the sidewalk so water is running to the sidewalk Currently I have elevation lines perpendicular to the PL, which extend into the neighbor but end at the PL as I cannot change the elevations at the PL. I do not do a whole lot of terrain work beyond some simple stuff, but when I do, I need to remind myself what cannot be changed, which in this case is elevations at PL, and number of steps for each section(to avoid a railing). everything else needs to work around that