dantappin Posted September 30 Share Posted September 30 Pretty new (2 days) to Home Designer - great software - just need to get the hang of this. I have a house on a sloped lot. The basement / walkout is level one and the main floor the garage which is down around 2 feet from the main floor. When I added the garage the floor was missing and the terrain open to below. I tried everything and ended up what I think is hacking this. I created a slab on the 1st floor and played withe the elevations etc until the floor met the second floor garage elevations. The problems I see / have are: - I want a stem wall around the garage - I tried to add them to first floor foundation but the garage doors won't break them and the slab was too deep - I suspect that the back portion of the garage will beed a full basement footing wall based on the slope I may be missing a basic feature / function here so please feel free to point out the obvious to me. Thanks, Dan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rookie65 Posted September 30 Share Posted September 30 The 1st floor should be level 1. The basement would be level 0. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dantappin Posted October 1 Author Share Posted October 1 Hmmm... I am sure I started that way and ran into problems - perhaps my in experience. So if I fix this then the garage added on to level 1 should work ok? Hoping I can just use the 'exchange floor' tool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rookie65 Posted October 1 Share Posted October 1 The program default is 1st floor for level 1. Try to fix that before getting wrapped up in the other stuff. Probably wouldn't hurt to spend time reading the reference manual Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jo_Ann Posted October 1 Share Posted October 1 What Rookie65 said about floor level 1, will probably give you fewer problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
solver Posted October 1 Share Posted October 1 I know it's a big jump in price, but Pro has features that may be helpful in creating an accurate model. I'm unsure about Architectural, but many of the Chief Architect, and some HD Pro users prefer to use 0 for the foundation, 1 for the walkout and 2 for the 1st floor. Suggest you experiment to find what works best for you. 2 hours ago, dantappin said: I created a slab on the 1st floor and played withe the elevations etc until the floor met the second floor garage elevations. That's a last resort. Always try to use the room supplied floor and not a manually drawn slab. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dantappin Posted October 1 Author Share Posted October 1 I was thinking that. I started at Arch based on the feature that I thought I needed and planned to upgrade down the road. I may use my 14 day money back guarantee and see if I can upgrade the difference now and save some money. We are planning to GC this build ourselves and have like a 6-7 year planning schedule. Finding that this package will be invaluable for this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dantappin Posted October 1 Author Share Posted October 1 So I fixed that and got my floors sorted out - I still can't add stem walls to my garage - options greyed out: Do I have to manually build the foundation now? Auto-rebuild wipes my entire existing basement design with ICF walls. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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