Adding Cupla affects entire plan

[JoAnn]

Bob..
If you are ever able to manually draw the cupola, you CAN put a round roof on it. The round roof is floor 3.
Also, when I added floor 3, the ceiling heights on floor 2 changed and I had to reset them. Could this be what is happening on your floor 1 when you add the cupola?

[JoAnn]

Rich...
If your architectural version has the cupolas, the you can add them to your new library, I think.
If that doesn't work, you can copy/paste them from the old program into a plan in your new program.

[BB boy]

Bob..
If you are ever able to manually draw the cupola, you CAN put a round roof on it. The round roof is floor 3.
Also, when I added floor 3, the ceiling heights on floor 2 changed and I had to reset them. Could this be what is happening on your floor 1 when you add the cupola?

JoAnn, thanks. I was not trying to do a round roof, just a round top VENT/LOUVER. That IS a good thing to know. In my practice plan, I used a fixed glass window, w/arched head changed the material for the glass to a "louver" bladed mat'l. BUT until I can figure out how to build it on my finished plan, I will just use the one from the library.

[BB boy]

I do have the 3 cupolas in pro 10, I selected one of them to "get by" so I could present last Friday. They didn't like the "rectangular" louver/vent but said they'd have the builder do a round top. I would've started over from scratch and got the main features (exterior walls, build the cupola, build the roofs) and gone from there, but didn't have the time to make the last minute changes and still get it to the board in time for their review/approval.

[BB boy]

In an effort, to not allow the soft-ware to defeat me, I started a brand new plan. So far I've managed to do the manual dormer, with MY home made round top vent/louver; however, I am unable to get the gables to draw correctly (they are now missing at the porch) and even though I followed DJP's You tube and attempted to edit the height of the cupola.....NO DEAL....no matter the changes I make it has reached it's current height and keeps telling me to go take a hike when I attempt to set a new ceiling height. So what you see is what I have at this point.
I am still working on it! I have only drawn the exterior walls visible and invisible to this point. @ 1 you see the cupola just stays at that height no matter what. imaginary bottom drops lower when I fiddle w/different heights. @ 2-no gable at the porch area and even if I try to draw it manually nothing shows.
So, I keep working. I had to change the porch from invisible walls, to railing with post to beam no shoe, top or bottom rail and also put a ceiling in although I didn't want one. Then the software cooperated and put my gable walls back in. While clumsily searching for gable vent, I came across Arched top vent louver in of all places-Mech, Elec, Plumbing "ventilation" well imagine that. I guess to keep the gable ends I'll have to do what the software wants, and doctor the posts up to get a Wood wrap with cultured stone base.

[JoAnn]

Bob...
When you said 'round top' I thought you meant the roof, or even the cupola. So i tried making a round cupola and the software won't allow it ( it sends the roof wonky). So I made this 6 sided cupola that I think looks nice.
Then you clarified that it was a round top vent that you wanted, and I was going to tell you that there was one in the library, but I see that you found it!

Anyway, if you would post a floor plan jpeg with some dimensions and ceiling heights (use LARGE TEXT), I would have like to have some fun trying to replicate it (to see what's going on). And leave the grid turned on, too.

[BB boy]

JoAnn, maybe the snip will work. I can get most everything, except now I can't get the cupola above the roof (even though I have it drawn on a blank 2nd floor) Hmph!?!?

[JoAnn]

Bob,

Thanks for the 2D jpeg. You didn't say what the ceiling heights were, or what the main roof pitch was...so I guessed.

I think my dimensions are pretty close to yours, so I added all the interior walls too. Roof problems (just like yours) appeared
only when I tried to pull up the interior walls of the cupola so they wouldn't hang down in the open ceiling of the interior.
This happened because I didn't turn off 'auto build roof '. The floor heights then climbed, and so did the walls and the roof.
The windows and vents went up in the air ( I think it's because their 'floor to top' setting doesn't change).
So, I still think all the crazy roof problems relate to floor and/or ceiling heights.

I did the middle cupola on floor 2, and had more problems with it than with the other 2, which I built as floor 3.
Keep raising the ceiling height until you see the cupola.

[Rich Winsor]

Bob...
When you said 'round top' I thought you meant the roof, or even the cupola. So i tried making a round cupola and the software won't allow it ( it sends the roof wonky). So I made this 6 sided cupola that I think looks nice.

Stop the presses! Don't tell me we have finally found
something you can't do with that antiquated software.