To begin launch your home designer pro software and select file new plan to start a new blank plan.
Build attic room home designer pro.
The structure should be sufficiently wide to allow for a loft and attic spaces the loft area must be on a living floor and have attic rooms on both sides separated by knee walls a flat ceiling in the loft area and a floor below steep.
Click ok to close the dialog and automatically generate a roof.
Creating an attic truss certain conditions must be met before an attic truss can be built.
Certain conditions must be met before an attic truss can be built.
Select build wall straight exterior wall and create a basic enclosed 4 wall rectangular structure by drawing your walls in a clockwise fashion.
If you need to add a new floor to your model select build floor build new floor from the menu.
The attic floor does not support rooms or living space of any kind not even rooms specified as attics.
If the plan design calls for a roof structure that is built up to a specific height on knee walls you will need to adjust the height of the second floor prior to building roof planes or rebuilding the roof.
For the purposes of this example we used a 30 x40 structure.
If your upper floor is on the attic level floor a and you receive a warning message about drawing objects on the attic level click ok.
In home designer pro this setting is located near the center of the dialog rather than towards the top.
The structure should be sufficiently wide to allow for a loft and attic spaces the loft area must be on a living floor and have attic rooms on both sides separated by knee walls a flat ceiling in the loft area and a floor below steep enough roof pitch to provide appropriate ceiling height for the loft area.
From the menu go to build wall straight exterior wall then click and drag in the wall the same length as the deck railing below it.