Roof lines & loft

[Donna Wesemann]

I am trying to create the Log home we will be building in the program, so I can move around furniture and fixtures. I am having difficulty adding the 2nd floor and the roof. The home has a center section that is vaulted, Roof pitch 9/12. The second floor consists only of a loft in the back, open to below in the front in the center section. The 2 side sections are 8 feet shorter in the front of the house and the roof pitch is 6/12, no second floor The gables face the sides on the sides and the front on the front. I keep getting a very complicated roof line. The first floor walls are 9' high. I am very knew to the program.
Donna Wesemann
Home Designer Suite 8.0

[daydreamer]

Hi Donna,
Welcome to the forum.
Doesn't sound to difficult...
Can you post a picture of your plan?

Anything like the pictures in the thumbnails?

[Dean Miller]

Doesn't sound to difficult...

not for you Rick ur good!!!!

[Deirdre]

I swear Rick that you have got to have a "drawer" full of these quick answers. Shoot, there is any time between the posting and the answer. What did you do, use one day to design every feasible type of problem and then saved them for inserts?

You are a blast to know. And a godsend.

[Larry]

The guy has a time machine up his butt. I have tried to beat him a few times but after I post his is already posted.

Ya' gotta' hate that guy!....LOL

[Deirdre]

That is why I think he has a drawer of ready made answers. You can't beat him; he don't play fair with the other kids. LOL Rick, you gotta love us.

[daydreamer]

Donna,

After re-reading your post, I think the following pictures may be what you want.

[LVYTN]

The guy has a time machine up his butt. I have tried to beat him a few times but after I post his is already posted.

Ya' gotta' hate that guy!....LOL

I think you're on the right track.. theres a rumor of time anomalies.. basically certain spots where time passes at a different rate than the rest of the world. They can exist anywhere but in general are to small to effect anything.

Theres one story of a larger one of these existing in some kids closet. Basically, when in this closet, time would pass at an exponentially slower rate than outside. So essentially time was all but stopped when inside this closet. So you could potentially take your work in there, do hours worth of work, and then emerge and not even a minute would have passed in real time.

Pretty useful for Rick, although I think in the story the kid got locked in there or something and by the time he was discovered, he was long dead.

[Larry]

Ohhhh That's what "coming out of the closet" means!
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[Deirdre]

Anyone notice that Rick is ignoring us and our jests. Told ya he don't play nice with the other kids.

[Larry]

He knows the bit about time shifting is true.

There was a whole lot of posts proving this theory but they disappeared before they were posted and I think time shifting had something to do with it.

Just to confirm this, this was post #139

[Donna Wesemann]

Donna,

After re-reading your post, I think the following pictures may be what you want.

Thank you so much - it is very close, except the center area roof should not be so high. There is no true 2nd floor. The front gable starts at the first floor. The roof line creates the loft in the back, vaulted ceiling in the front. There are only knee walls on the sides of the loft.
Donna

[daydreamer]

Do you know how to build it now?

[Donna Wesemann]

I have no clue how to get the vaulted ceiling and the loft over the center section of the first floor without the full second floor walls. It is only 2 stories high in the center, the roof meets the first floor (which is a 9ft ceiling) at the 1 story side wings of the log home. It should appear almost as an A frame or chalet in the front of the house. I am very knew at this, hope I am making myself clear....

[Larry]

When you stop learning something, each time, about this software there is a new version available...LOL