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Thank you for your response. I'll try to learn how to do this. I'll follow this tutorial https://www.homedesignersoftware.com/support/article/KB-00367/drawing-a-shed-dormer-manually.html on building a shed dormer which should teach me how to do this I hope.

I'm having trouble with understanding how to create an enclosed space underneath a dormer-created space on the 2nd floor (underneath the dormer). I also have trouble with my plan view showing the dormer walls on the 2nd floor plan view. I can't find a tutorial or information on how these issues are solved. In the first case, I would like to create an enclosed closet in the angled space created between the two gable dormers. I can create an inside wall and place it against the slope of the ceiling in the plane parallel with the exterior wall, but I can't seem to create the sides of the enclosure by the same process of just drawing an interior wall. After three days of trying, I am pretty frustrated. It's probably something simple I can't figure it out. I also would like to know if there is a way to prevent the dormer sidewalls from showing up in the plan view (examples as shown in the attached pic with blue arrows). I'm using Home Designer Architect 2021. Any help or tips would be appreciated. Thanks.

Eric, Thank you very much for making this tutorial! It is very informative for me as I am a beginner and as I said earlier, I wasn't able to find a tutorial or instructions on how to make these changes. I will spend some time working with these dimensions within my model to understand how they are related. Your tip on resetting the default value seems to be an important point. Thank you! Joe

Thanks. Yes, I tried that many times and still can't seem to solve it by lowering it, or else I'm not lowering it correctly. I end up with a very high foundation wall and when I try to lower the floor, it actually raises the foundation rather than lowering the building. Very frustrating. What I'm doing is adjusting the stem wall dimension by increasing it to reach the ground. I look at it in camera mode and see a very high foundation. I then go back in and adjust other dimensions but with no good solution. To go back to the original problem, why is it that if I raise the terrain around where I built the house, that the house elevation doesn't automatically raise also? Not sure why the program wouldn't automatically adjust the house elevation when you raise the terrain around it.

Hello, I am a new user of this software and have watched tutorials and read sections of the user guides without resolution of my problem. I have started to model my home and a detached garage. The house is elevated six feet (72") higher than the surrounding terrain on a small "plateau". The detached garage off this small plateau is at the lower surrounding elevation. I modeled the house and the garage. Then, I modified the terrain with a "raised region" around the house and brought it up 72". When I did that, the house became buried six feet down in the ground. The garage, not in the area of the raised region, sits at the correct elevation. I then opened the terrain perimeter and under "subfloor height above terrain", I changed it from 0" to 72". Now, the house sits up on the plateau at the correct elevation, but now the detached garage is floating six feet in the air! I've wrestled with this for a couple of days and I know there must be a very simple thing that I'm missing an d corrects this, but I cannot figure it out and if anyone knows what I'm doing wrong and can help me, it would be greatly appreciated. I have the 2021 version of Home Designer Architectural