johnny

This was a very helpful thread too.  I did learn a lot watching Scotts videos - as I think it helps to see visual reactions to someone working thru the process.

I think the room divider was designed to be exactly as its named...to DIVIDE rooms not to create them.

Yeah, but why can't it divide spaces outside a building into a room?...I don't see a name conflict if it did - and that is how we were to create rooms/decks/spaces outside from the tool it replaced.

Never mind, I just made a typical wall and made them invisible.  I will leave this up in case someone else has this issue, but why doesn't room divider work outside the exterior walls - the same way invisible walls worked before??  After all, there isn't really an invisible wall, so the room divider was a better tool - again, just not intuitive.

So in previous release to create an outdoor room or rather a space where the roof would cover automatically, you'd simply make invisible walls around the space.  Now, we have room divider, and CA doesn't seem to act intuitively (the way you'd expect) in creating that same space via the room divider.  How are we now supposed to create outdoor spaces covered by roof without manually drawing that roof?

Per the pic I placed a room divider line to each side of where before I had invisible walls.

Valley truss connector.

That is a good approach for truss based over-framing, but I believe the OP is trying to show a hand-framed condition.