Adding Cupla affects entire plan

[Rich Winsor]

Hi Bob, I don't have a lot of time right now but a couple
of things in your images caught my eye. If you do a quick
search for cupolas in say Google images, you can't help
but notice that 99% of them come to some sort of a point
at the peak (as opposed to a ridge line). In the few that
do have a ridge line, it almost invariably runs parallel to
the ridge line of the roof planes it sits on. What does all
this have to do with the price of beans in Boston? I don't
know. You wouldn't think so but perhaps having the cupola
ridge line a right angles to the roof ridge line is confusing
the software? I will try to play around with this later tonight
if you haven't had any luck by then.

[BB boy]

Rich, I know that ought to make sense, however if you look at the snips I added, I did the cupola both ways on the practice plan, didn't affect the roof at all. Tried it on my working plan (again the practice plan has no walls built) but doesn't matter which way I turn the cupola.....bang everything goes to !?!?!?! And I forgot to mention, that snip one I had not done the cupola at all, I had only opened my working plan-went to build 2nd floor (blank 2nd floor) per he tutorial, then did perspective camera to see if anything changed and BANG! There go the gable lovers, and the gables disappear!?!???!!!

[Kbird]

just had a play with the tutorial instructions ,and since I didn't read it properly the 1st time , I built the 2nd floor DERIVED from the 1st so the Tut. didn't work,
it did when I use the option "create a new blank 2 floor plan for new floor" per the Tutorial. David missed this step in his instr. too but he probably did it without thinking knowing he didn't want any exterior walls on the 2nd floor except the cupola....

M.