recessed gable roof

[jnjbedol]

I'm about to give up trying to put a gable roof on the front of my house plan in Suite 6.0. The front has two bump-outs that have their own gable roofs, but I can't turn the default hip roof that spans the whole house front into a gable. I tried making a full exterior wall inside the bumpouts, spanning the whole front to fool the software into recognizing this as the real front of the house, but no results.
Also, in the rear gable that forms the attic wall, we want to recess the wall to provide a recessed deck under the gable from the walk-out attic. Any suggestions?