Different roof pitches

[cabinman]

Maybe this is in the manual, but I can't find it. Whenever I add a shed roofed porch to my house, it always has the same pitch as the house roof. I want to have an 8/12 gable roof on the house and a 4/12 shed roof on the front and back porches. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

[Allen42ACJ]

Click on the porch railing walls=roof tab=you can change the pitch there.That will over ride the default setting..

[Larry]

You manipulate the wall properties not the roof properties directly.

[cabinman]

Thanks, but when I changed the roof pitch on the porch, it also changes the house roof to the same pitch. I have auto build off.

[Larry]

You could make the porch roof a dormer with a shed style roof and set it separately.

[cabinman]

OK, I will try that. Thanks, Larry

[cabinman]

Hmmm, when I deleted my porch roof, my house roof was deleted also. I had the porch only selected. Before that I just deselected roof on the deck (room) specification window and that did not remove the porch roof. What am I doing wrong here?

[cabinman]

You could make the porch roof a dormer with a shed style roof and set it separately.

If I delete the roof and than try to build just a dormer on top of the deck, it will not allow me to put a dormer where there is no roof plane. (According to the error messege.) Is a roof plane just a roof?

[cabinman]

btw, I am using HD suite 7.

[Allen42ACJ]

Can you post a picture of the floor plan?

[cabinman]

Yes. Need to reduce size of file. Working on it.

[cabinman]

I am trying to get a file smaller than 100k. Any suggestions as to how to do that?

[cabinman]

I cannot get a file smaller enough to attach. But I can tell you it is simply a 40' x 20' box with a 10' x 40' porch on the first floor.

[cabinman]

Hope you can make this out.

[Allen42ACJ]

Set the end walls as full gables,railing to..front railing wall set like the box if you have these settings..