Roof & Cathedral Ceiling Problem

[ghlabarge]

Hello,

I've ran into a problem trying to do a cathedral ceiling over my great room. I'm relatively new to the software, but I'm picking things up pretty quickly.

The pictures show what I'm trying to do better than words. In short, I'm trying to have a gabled roof cathedral ceiling in part of the house with a shorter gable roof that is covered by a larger gable roof. I want the rest of the rooms to have a normal ceiling on them.

Using Home Designer Suite 2014.

Any help would be great.

[David J. Potter]

This video tutorial may, generally help you:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2iqSbu6Dz0

DJP

[ghlabarge]

David, Thanks for the reply. I watched the video and it helped me fix the hole in the gable end.

However, I still haven't figured out how to make that room have the slanted ceiling on the left side of the room. I think the program just opens the entire roof, and I want it to run that gable end ceiling the full length of the room, and not have it open to the second gable roof above it. Maybe I'm asking it to do something that is too complex for the Suite software? Or I still have some more trial and error. I tried to use invisible walls in that room to force the smaller gable over the room and have the roof extend down, but that didn't work either.

Using Home Designer Suite 2014

[David J. Potter]

What you do is "Cheat"! By that I mean you use the soffit tool, order it to be a sloped soffit, change its dimensions and location to suit your purpose so that it fills in where the sloped ceiling is missing but thin enough so it does not stick through the roof.

There are slicker solutions available in Home Designer Pro and Chief Premier but that will have to serve in Suite and does work.

DJP