Wrap-Around Porch - Getting the Roof to Wrap Correctly against a Gable Roofed Wall

[adkbri]

Would anyone know if there are instructions posted to create a wrap-around front porch when one side of the porch is against a gable roofed wall? The first image attached shows what happens when you set the porch wall (railing) to a gable roof. The second shows what happens when you set it to a hip roof. What I was looking for is more along the lines of the roof lines in the third image. The roof line is carried around the corner, directly against the side of the house (gable side) without connecting to the main structure roof.

Thank you for any help you can provide (I am using Home Designer Suite 2014).

[David J. Potter]

You can tell from the photo that the ceiling height of the first floor is set higher than the porches (thus the roof separations).

One or more of these Help Database Articles should help as well:

http://www.homedesignersoftware.com/...put=xml_no_dtd

DJP

[adkbri]

Thank you for the links. It looks like this just may not be possible using Home Designer Suite 2014. If anyone wants to prove me wrong, I would be interested in how you accomplished a wrap-around porch extending across a gable wall.

[David J. Potter]

In your posted images your porch roof pitches are too steep to work, set them lower in the Wall Specification Dialog-Roof Tab-Pitch Options input box.

DJP

[adkbri]

Thanks, I tried that but it just changed the pitch of the main roof where it connects. I think the basic problem is that it keeps trying to connect the porch roof and blend it to the main roof rather than treating the porch roof as a separate entity.

The same problem happens if you just try to get a side porch roof on a single story structure. The first attached image below (full gable on a gable end) works, but changing it to try to get just a roof over the porch causes it to try to tie the porch roof into the roof of the main structure (second image).

[David J. Potter]

I just finished making a new You Tube Video tutorial in Home Designer Suite 2014 and I was successful in making a model like your posted photo, so I think you will find it useful.
When it is finished uploading and formatting, I will post a link here to it when it is ready. Happy New Year!

DJP

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFUwa...ature=youtu.be

[adkbri]

Thank you David. I appreciate the time you took to answer my question. The video was very helpful. The key was the ceiling height setting.