Cannot design porch floor correctly.

[mgianzero]

I'm a DIY'er trying to remodel home / garage, and I just bought a copy of Home Designer Pro 2017 for Mac.  From my snapshot, I'm trying to draw my overhang which sits adjacient to garage in my pic.  There are just a few posts that come to to the slab and no walls, overhang is just the roof line with a long soffit underneath. 

 

I did this by defining a room using "room divider" and then defined room type as a porch (an open room with only a roof line, support beams and posts and slab for flooring).  But notice that the "slab" underneath appears higher than the surrounding slab.  Why is this?  What am I doing wrong?

 

 

Marc

[solver]

The program builds according to your settings. You will need to adjust those settings to get your desired results.

Your model looks to have a stem wall foundation with footings -- not a slab ( except for the garage and porch).

The porch slab seems extra thick. It's default is 4".

Use the Cross Section tool to look at what you have.

 

Your porch slab is about where your interior floor level is. I'd bet.

 

 

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[DavidJPotter]

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