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How about posting a picture.  It might be helpful.

The secret to drawing an uneven ridge line, or multiple levels, on the same roof is to make sure the eave height and roof pitch are correct in the property screen.

JWG

I would draw the diagram and scan it in as an attachment..... if that's passable

Most of the houses in my neck of the woods have uneven roof lines, something like a sway back mule.

The few uneven ridges that I have done are due to the slope dimension being shorter on one side than on the other for part of the roof. Quite a few hoses that have a deeep garage will fall into this catagory due to the frront slope being shorter than the back to accodoate the deeper garage. I don't remember the command but in X there is a command to offset the ridge, does anybody remember that command?

I don't have XM8 27; have 25. Lay down a gable roof. Right click on the roof and select properties, then click on the dimension tab. Change the measure "slope" to measure "rafter length". Input the different rafter lengths each side of the ridge. Sometimes the program will tell you that is impossible. If that happens, then click the dimension arrow up a little at a time until you have what you want.

A few years ago, for a short time, a sub-version let you grab the ridge line and pull it to one side or the other to exactly what you wanted. That disappeared before many even knew about it. Who knows why.

Plug in the right pitch numbers and eave heights. You can do even the most complicated roofs in XM8, but some of them take a lot of time. Like Ray says, you can always draw it and scan it. You can also pay $7 for Assurecalc to give you a fly over view diagram. You have to furnish two good measurements to make it all work.

Randy, thanks for the information. I knew there was a "trick" but had forgotten it.