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3d shapes? I did that once to show sloped garage floor and to simulate a sloped pool bottom. Do need to be creative and will not be exact but can make it look good. Another way is to make individual slabs and then go into sectional view and you can rotate them in the axis thru the screen like you would in plan view but along the x or y axis. Not a lot of commands/features for sloped things.

good luck.

call or email HD tech support

are you designing it or the modular building company? I do not see why not HD could work but not sure exactly what you need in the end.. MAybe Call the HD peeps.

I would have to play with it This might work first set ceiling height in room to the low wall. Then uncheck this room has ceiling. Then go edit the 16 ft wall and go to roof tab and check High Shed wall. Then create roof using the slope required to get your desired high wall Height.

It should have elevation location dims...think they call it offset from ceiling... So place it where you want it in plan view then click on it and open up the edit dialogue screen for it and adjust vertical location to be underside of shelf you want to locate it at.

draw your property lines and make sure it is an enclosed poly line then convert that to a terrain perimeter. OR go to terrain tab and select create terrain perimeter. The in floor plan turn on Terrain perimeter to ensure yo ucan see it then draw parallel lines inside these property lines. set their distance from the property lines as you set backs so yo get a "mini" property to create your house. no different then if you did by hand like an old timer on paper. The software does not know what a setback is. For more hel open the help screen and check the website as they pretty much cover how to do everything.

what experience do you have with home plans? The software can do what you want but it does not know what FAIRFAX rules are; you need to know them. you have to draw in the plot plan. You use the library to find material like your house. You would need to draw in your existing house. and so on... Might be better to hire a local house plans business.. Think of the software as a clean sheet of paper waiting for you to put something on it.

if that is case then they need a file cleaner aka soemthing to delete the junk not used.

I know if you open any of the Elevation views, one can rotate objects looking at them. So how you place camera matters. Select it by clicking with mouse and you get the EDIT doohickeys. Grab the triangle one and you can rotate things in that view which then carry over to the model. I did it once to make a satellite dish from a 3d shape. See screen shot below - just a random thing I did to show you. So may take looking at object and thinking of your end result. Would be nice if the program had rotate objects about XYZ axis but this works just takes practice to get your end result.

Do I see a half wall up against a normal wall? That will create issues. To "paint" the all behind just use the eyedropper to get color of the green wall hit return Then you get a spray can and set it to object mode. And spray the beige wall in one spot. and it will change color.

agree.

This is nomenclature thingy. Framers around here throw around the words Base Plate, Bottom plate Sill plate Anchor plate All made from Pressure treated wood with a thin foam like gasket to seal bottom to concrete to help prevent air flow. All mean the same thing - plate at bottom of wall that is bolted to slab. Tomato TomAHto Would be nice if software help kind had better explanation maybe a definition page? as we all use different terms if based on where you live

3d Shapes work well. you can also use soffit, slab, etc. basically anything that you can change the floor plan shape to suit and then locate bottom with reference to floor and change the height and finally material which you then change to match you tile. I

I have seen this as we do slab homes here in Southern MS. If you look at actual walls it frames it will make bottom plate the same width as wall studs. As above person said the software uses SILL plate for the top of a foundation wall like they do up north and then put floor joists on top. So I have ignored it after always changing them as it means nothing for those who use Monolithic slab foundations. Even in the garage area where it will make short stem walls to be the same elevation as the house slab it is only as wide as stud.