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I want to build an A-Frame house but can't seem to get my roof to build right. How can I do that?
The trick to making an A-frame house, is to get the roof planes right first and then work on the rooms inside.
For this example, we will walk you through creating a basic A-Frame structure in a new plan created using the Default style template. Once you understand this process, you can then take that knowledge and apply it to your own design.
In Home Designer Pro, you can group select both walls to set them as Full Gable at the same time.
Once you have created a fully enclosed structure, you are ready to create a second floor.
Now that you have the second floor created, you are ready to have the roof build the roof at the appropriate pitch.
Now that you have both of the opposing walls on your first and second floors set to Full Gable, so that they will not generate the automatic hip roof that Home Designer would create by default, you have your roof pitch set, and the second floor will be ignored for automatic roof generation, you need to adjust the height of the first floor so that the roof planes will extend all the way to the ground.
If you do not see a Gable roof at this point, or the roof is too high, either you did not lower the Ceiling Height in the room on the first floor, or you have already turned off Auto Rebuild Roofs. The Home Designer Essentials version does not have Auto Rebuild Roofs, so you need to return to the Build Roof dialog to rebuild the roof planes based on the lower Ceiling Height for Floor 1.
Now that you can see you have created the type of style you want, and do not want any future changes you make in the rest of the design to affect the roof, you need to turn off the automatic generation of your roof planes.
*Auto Rebuild Roofs is not available in the Home Designer Essentials version of the software.