CoachRob14

Hey Guys,

Just got in from Track Practice.

So...I went ahead and took some actual pictures of the house I am trying to replicate...  and then some pictures of where I currently am.  I am pretty pumped up to be honest-  probably amateur hour for you all, but for me, it is a major accomplishment to have as much done as I currently do have, since i have only been messing with Exteriors for about a week.

Would love to hear any and all thoughts!  

3 hours ago, LawB10 said:

upload your plan, please...

Quinnipiac.plan

There is no way that what I just did is legit...

I just went to "create a rectangular feature"-  drew a driveway rectangle- changed the material to asphalt...it LOOKS like a driveway-  

No way this can be correct, can it?

Is this what you are referring to?

"Subfloor height above terrain"?

meaning...

Do I use an elevation point?

an elevation line?

an elevation region?

something else that Suite doesn't possess?  

I understand fully what you are saying.  Floor is 0".  Garage is -18"  Therefore, in order for the driveway to show, grass level has to be below 18".  I just don't know how to isolate just that space of grass to accomplish that..  Will keep trying.  

How does the program not understand I want a driveway here, not grass?  lol

I don't understand it.

Luckily, this house I am working on currently has a flat yard all the way across.

Here is how smart I am so far- I have a driveway that is now covered in grass-  and the grass covered my deck as well.

smh-  cant wait to figure this one out lol

I know this is child's play for you all...

But for me this is pretty good lol.

I have become decent on the interior-  can set up a kitchen, cabinets, countertops, furniture, etc...

NOW-  I need to take the final dreaded step-  start getting into TERRAIN (which scares me lol)

Okay...

Looks like auto rebuild foundations did the trick!

Thank You.

I am SO FAR AHEAD of where I was 7-10 days ago, where I couldn't draw stairs or even conceptualize a deck, or raising/lowering floor levels.  I think I need to learn to do things in the proper order.  Thank you again.

I went to the settings.  I didn't see any options outside of "automatically rebuild foundation"

Sent a picture of the garage settings.

Where do I find out if I have that option checked?  If I checked it somewhere, I would like to uncheck it.

Good Morning Everyone,

I have a ranch style home- 2 car front facing garage and a deck that is 17' x 8".

Floor 1 height is set at "0".  When entering the house from the back of the garage, I walk up three 6" steps.  Therefore, I want to set the Garage Floor height at -18", to create this level separation.  

Each time I change the garage height to -18", I click back on the living level, and it changed with the garage to -18".  Each time I try and change the living plan back to 0", the garage changes back to 0" with it.  

DOES ANYONE KNOW WHY I AM UNABLE TO KEEP THESE AT 2 SEPARATE HEIGHTS?

Looks like I have it where I want it (I think).

As you said Ed-  My living space floor height (Floor C) is at 0".

My Garage Floor Height (Floor D) is at -18".  So I have created a foot and a half differential, which is what I was looking for.

Now that I've done it, I wish I understood why the living space is labeled as "Floor C", and the Garage "Floor D".  

I guess that was all it was.

The stem wall was 22 1/2.  I went to LEVEL 0, and changed the 22 1/2 to match the 37 1/2 of the living space.  Now it is perfectly lined up!

now I just want to go back, without messing that part up that I just fixed, and create that level separation.  You are saying I should lower the garage, not raise the house, yes?

But I don't want to change the height of the stem wall (because they are both perfectly aligned at 37 1/2"-  so let me go see what wall or floor or ceiling or whatever I need to adjust to try and make this happen..

Bottom.

And I guess I just can't wrap my head around-  Floor A, Floor B, Floor G, absolute this, rough that...

I went to foundation, clicked build foundation.  The garage, as you stated, defaulted to 22 1/2 stem wall.  It also gave me a Floor (C) height of -26 1/8".  So it is already giving me a negative.  

At the foundation level-  when I clicked on the living space area, it has the stem wall at 37 1/2", yet is starting me with a Floor (C) height of -46 1/8".

Good Evening,

Trying to create the following scenario...

Garage (with no rooms above it).  Park the gar, walk towards the back of the garage, and you have to walk up 2 stairs to get to "floor level" of the living space.  In other words, if the Garage was at Zero, the living space of the house is about a foot and a half higher than that.

how come, in this picture-  my foundations don't seem to be aligned?  The garage seems to be "floating".  Can someone help me out with this scenario?  I want to walk in the garage, walk up 2 steps, and be walking onto floor 1 (which is probably elevated 1 foot and a half higher than the garage floor).

So while I am thrilled about my glass house version...Obviously I have flaws throughout.

For instance-  from this perspective view, how come I am not able to add exterior siding to the remained of the house, as I am attempting to do here.  It is not letting me do so?  

Hello Everyone,

For anyone who may have been following along for past 2 or 3 days, may have seen that it literally took me 2 or 3 days worth of questions to wrap my head around how to create a raised ranch entrance way with a split level landing  I really appreciate all of you who took the time to chime in and help me out.   

So I am super excited-  I tried to create a new raised ranch starting from scratch.  It only took me a few hours this time which is a major accomplishment-  I successfully used a "room divider" to create my stairs as a "room", allowing me to drop the height of the floor half way between upper and lower level.  Again, super excited to have accomplished this, and successfully created stairs that reach both levels with the desired amount of treads.

Now, when I use the 3D view from the lower level (see picture below)-  I am still getting the concrete foundation wall to the right-  to avoid this, do I literally have to build an interior wall around the entire inside of the lower level foundation?   What did I do wrong here?  Same with the ceiling-  you will notice the ceiling is not "finished".  

Pumped up- looking forward to finding out the answers to these so I can correct and add to my small but growing repertoire!

Rob

Wow

I can't believe it.  I FINALLY got what I was looking for!!!   I am sure there are flaws in it!  I am sure the dimensions are not proper or possibly not realistic- I don't know how it affected walls to the left or right, or the bottom level where there should be storage under this stairwell.  But i FINALLY got a raised ranch stairwell!!  Well, at least half of it.  I need to work on the other side that goes down into the lower level.

I dropped the floor (Floor C) to 84"-  I'm not sure if that is "building realistic", but it seemed to do the trick!

Getting so much closer!!!!

I was able to drop the floor in that one location!!!  I think I dropped it to 96".  And I was able to use the glass house view to align the front entrance door in correlation.   Now, when I try to "open up the stairwell", I am getting a message that it "can not find the floor above"?

I fully understand what you are saying.  I just don't know how to isolate that one section of floor to drop it down

just don't know how I create a "floor" in that one spot, that doesn't span the length of the entire house!

Also, I already dedicated "Floor 1" to be the living area-  with this idea, I will need to call that "floor 2".  How the heck do I transfer everything I did on "floor 1" and now label it as floor 2?

ughhh

So final step...

Entrance way stairs  No idea even where to begin-  how do you start a staircase, inside of a doorway that is technically suspended between two floors?  It's almost like I need to create a separate "floor" just for this entrance way.  

Wow-

For crying out loud, I figured it out.  My Floor Height (Floor C) was at 48".  I dropped it down to 0, and now I am where I need to be.  

So I'm getting somewhere.

I have my living floor and my basement floor all laid out.

Perspective view, I need to figure out how to lower the Garage to Ground Level.  In the house i'm trying to design, if you could picture it, facing the front of the house-  the Garage is on the left, and immediately to the right of it has a retaining wall approximately 4-5 feet high.  Therefore, if i had to estimate, the bottom of the Front Door is approximately 6 feet 'Higher" than the Garage Door where it meets the ground.

So I have to find out how to lower this Garage Door down to Zero (so to speak).