Much food for thought in your reply. I will keep those points in mind as I practice with the file in the next few days.
Thanks for responding!

Sundad;
If you have reason to invest in the Pro version other than the issue herein then by all means , but it seems the version you are using now should allow a better result.
Suggest you post your model as requested before.
Curious your comment about fonts bad on different machine. Does that mean the one you used for drawing creation OK?

Hi

For complex roof plan,first make a face of the common pitching point (fascia line) then offset a given known distance, then select the inner plane and auto-fold the correct height to make all the hips, valleys, then use the methods outlined above

this is for a roof with all the same pitch

Philip