HelgeB

Hi,

my new old house has its base floor 50 cm above the terrain. At the corner of the building is a wall with an top rounded iron gate leading to the garden. This wall and so this gate is on the terrain level, see attached photo .

How do I build this in Home Designer Architectural 2016?

I've tried:

1) an inner/outer wall. This is always placed on the height of the base floor and under the roof it is extended up to the roof.

2) a terrain wall, but there are no doors allowed.

3) a combination of soffits, fences and doors/gates, but there I can't get a nice piece of wall above the gate.

Thanks

Helge

I use home designer architectural 2016 on El Capitan, no problems so far.

Hi Eric, it's evening, and I tried your solution.

At first a little fiddly, but finally done. Good to have architectural blocks and some windows of the same size.

But one drawback: There are no moldings in the recess.

I tried without the soffits: no moldings on doorways in exterior walls, see picture.

May be I missed some options?

But nevertheless: Thanks for the answer!

Whoa, what an active forum!

Thanks for the answers, I'll try Eric's solution in the evening.

For David, I attach a picture from the outside. I currently have no picture from inside, but think of the normal walls as 30 cm bricks, the pebbled parts below the windows are 7 cm concrete slabs.

Helge

I got a house with some kind of reverse pony walls for the windows.

Below the windows the walls are thinner with different surface and room for heating radiators.

Before remodeling the house I wanted to create a nice plan, so I got the home designer.

I created my exterior walls, broke them where the windows are and placed my new deigned pony walls. But when I place a window in these wall parts, they are always smaller than the pony wall. I can't drag the handles more outside, and when I type the exact size, it is automatically reduced.

I tried every setting in the windows dialog, nothing helped. 

So how can I draw my windows? 

Helge