Mav2294

Jo_Ann - yes, that is what I have. And what you show there is what I need to do from my other post about the covered patio. Are you able to share that file just so I can learn from it?

Okay, thanks. I think I can work around this by adjusting the Subfloor to Terrain setting.

I'm using Home Designer Pro 2024 on Windows. The house I'm working on has a walk-out basement. All the terrain data is setup based on the elevation of the lower level floor (basement level) as elevation 0". I'm trying to setup the defaults and I'm unable to set the absolute elevation for the basement level to be 0". The elevation of Floor 1 is pegged to 0" and I can't seem to change it. In the Structure dialog for Floor 0, the Floor Above setting is grayed out and set to 0", no matter what I do on Floor 0, HDP won't allow that to change. If I enter 0" as the floor elevation for Floor 0, the program just changes it to -12 5/8 which is the thickness of the ceiling structure. If I go to the Structure tab for Floor 1, again, the floor elevation is grayed out and set to 0" (when I want it to be 96.5"). Nothing I do will change that. How can I change the elevation of Floor 0 to 0", and the elevation of Floor 1 to 96.5"? Thanks.

I'll try it that way, thanks.

The roof is the same roof as the house. The question is what room type should I use for the covered porch. The framing is similar to a deck, but the interior is similar to an interior room (solid floor, not deck boards, walls with windows all around). If I set the room type to Porch or a different type of interior room, then HDP frames it like a regular room which isn't what I need - I need the under side framed similar to a deck and supported on wood posts/columns, not on a foundation. If I set it to a deck, then I can get the floor framing I need, but the floor itself is wood deck boards (not a solid floor) and getting the walls to be solid instead of a railing has been troublesome. Hope that clarifies the issue. Thanks - Mav.

I'm using Home Designer Pro 2024 on Windows (recently upgraded from 2015 so I'm still learning some of the new features). I have a single story home with a walk-out basement. On the foundation level, there is a patio. On the 1st floor, there is a covered porch and adjacent uncovered deck, both of them above the lower patio and supported on wood posts/columns. My question is what room type should I use for the covered porch? The framing is similar to a deck, but the room materials, floor covering, roof, walls and other features are more similar to a typical porch. Importantly there is no foundation below the porch as it is supported on wood columns. I need to have control over where the columns are placed and how the underside of the covered porch is framed. Thoughts?

Keith, That worked, thanks. Never would have figured that out otherwise. -Mav

I'm trying to construct a cantilevered room. In my case, the structure is a single story with walk-out basement. You enter the house in the front, and it slopes down towards the back exposing the rear basement walls. So the cantilever is actually on Level 1, and it overhangs the walk-out portion of the basement. I'm using Home Designer Pro 2015. Also of note, as instructed by CA, the terrain features are all built on Level 1, the same level as the cantilever. However I try to do this, the terrain below the cantilever disappears, see attached. In this example, the overhang was constructed as a room using exterior walls. I've also tried doing this as a deck or balcony, but in those cases, while the terrain below the deck remains in tact, I don't get full walls. I can modify the walls of the deck/balcony to make them full walls, but once I do that, the same thing occurs and the terrain below disappears again. (Don't worry about structural integrity... in reality, there will be posts supporting the structure so it is not truly cantilevered... I'm just trying to model it and retain open terrain below.) How do I construct a cantilevered/overhanging room with open terrain below?