Auto Dormers are a collection of objects that behave as one. When a dormer is selected, it displays edit handles you can use to resize and relocate it.
If you click the Explode Dormer 
edit button, the dormer's individual components can be edited.
When selected in floor plan view, an auto dormer displays three edit handles. The Move handle displays over the front wall and allows you to relocate the dormer. Two resize handles display on the side walls and allow you to change the width of the dormer.
There are some things to keep in mind when editing auto dormers and auto floating dormers using the mouse.
Dormer windows can be selected, edited, deleted and replaced just as other windows can. See "Editing Windows". You can place several windows in the front wall.
Unless the dormer's window has been edited or changed in the Window Specification dialog, when the dormer width is changed, its width changes automatically to fill the front dormer wall. If the window has been edited, its width stays fixed. If a change to the dormer makes its front wall too short to hold the window, the window reverts to auto width.
Auto dormers can be selected, opened for specification, and edited. See "Dormer Specification Dialog".
Click the Explode Auto Dormer edit button to explode the auto dormer into its component parts. The dormer walls, roof planes, window, and hole in the roof/ceiling can be edited individually.
The program treats roof planes over an exploded anto dormer as though they were manually drawn, allowing you to protect them from being rebuilt in the Build Roof dialog. See "Build Tab".
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