HDPro 2024. This is day one, and day one has been disappointing. Please bear with me.
I'm starting to design a garage. Haven't started on that part yet.
I've converted my property plat into a terrain perimeter, complete with setbacks, etc.
Now I'm trying to add the existing house and shed footprints for reference, so I can play with placement/orientation/etc. of the garage with respect to the house, and can have something to eventually submit for planning/zoning approval.
I've made a CAD outline of the house footprint and dimensioned all of those lines, but I'm not having any success getting dimensions to snap to the terrain perimeter. This means that I can't properly locate the house footprint on the property.
Is there a special trick to this, or should I model the house as a separate building (just some walls or a slab or something) and figure out how to bring it in as a second building? Or just make the house footprint out of a fence or a patio? Can those be dimensioned to the terrain perimeter? I'm a little shocked that would need a workaround for something as simple as reference geometry.
I'm a mechanical CAD guy (Solidworks, some other packages as well) and HDPro has a really steep learning curve so far.