2 Story on Pilings, attached garage.

[CallTheCondor]

I have a customer that wants an island house on pilings, with a porch.  Then an attached garage with a set of stairs into the home.  (3 foot pilings).  The shotgun style house is to have a loft over the master, thus making the center of the home a 2 story build.  I can get the house on pilings with the tutorial using the 1st floor as the piling floor.  However, when I switch to slab on grade, 1st floor for the garage, I cannot get the roofs to align, nor the wall on the garage side of the 3rd floor.  I'm nearly to the point of doing it piece by piece in Sketchup.  Any help or pointers to a tutorial that this slow headed contractor can follow?  

 

Thank you all so much in advance!

1st Floor_Toskin_Suey_Pine_Isl.pdf Toskin TAKE ROOF.pdf

[scottharris]

Can you post your Home Designer plan?

[CallTheCondor]

Toskin TAKE 42.planHere is the plan file.  

Toskin TAKE 42.plan

[y-g-m-n]

for garage roof:

Click outer wall and open the object sceen.

Then click on ROOF tab.

then click HELP lower right

Read up on Extend Slope Downward, shed roof & High Gable

 

Me I would just manual edit roof planes over house and drag its right side down over garage and past exterior wall.

Then set outer edge to match overhang I wanted.

It may cut the outer wall and shorten it or have a gap over this wall and you will need to extend that wall up.

 

IT is about playing with the tools you are giving to find the way to make it look like you want.

[scottharris]

 

You might start with the first floor and foundation.  On the first floor, set your end walls to gables and the define the garage room type.  For the foundation, use the option ‘grade beams on piers’, it will ask about your garage setting, try something like 36” for the min. garage height.  You will then likely need to manually adjust the foundation to your specific needs.

 

Now build a 2^nd floor, adjust the living space to only be in the center of the structure.

[CallTheCondor]

On 2/15/2025 at 10:36 AM, scottharris said:

 

You might start with the first floor and foundation.  On the first floor, set your end walls to gables and the define the garage room type.  For the foundation, use the option ‘grade beams on piers’, it will ask about your garage setting, try something like 36” for the min. garage height.  You will then likely need to manually adjust the foundation to your specific needs.

 

Now build a 2^nd floor, adjust the living space to only be in the center of the structure.

This looks almost exactly what I am going for.  The tutorial for home on elevated foundation is what I followed, https://www.homedesignersoftware.com/support/article/KB-00752/creating-a-structure-that-is-built-on-piers.html?srsltid=AfmBOoocnaSP78lfFClh5WkQqBn90GikB7SB_ju1Kj-no3n4bpbvJ8NO, are you saying to use the first floor as standard then set the foundation after?  

[scottharris]

4 hours ago, CallTheCondor said:

are you saying to use the first floor as standard then set the foundation after?  

In most cases, you would always start with the main first floor.  Then, you build the foundation and other floors using the first floor as your design anchor point and its structural elements.

[CallTheCondor]

17 hours ago, scottharris said:

In most cases, you would always start with the main first floor.  Then, you build the foundation and other floors using the first floor as your design anchor point and its structural elements.

When I do the foundation after the main house walls are up, and the garage is designated, it will not separate foundation types and it buries the Piers instead of elevating the home.  I am beyond lost.

[CallTheCondor]

On 2/15/2025 at 10:36 AM, scottharris said:

On the first floor, set your end walls to gables and the define the garage room type.  For the foundation, use the option ‘grade beams on piers’, it will ask about your garage setting,

I have tried this several times, and I must be missing something.  Deck foundation not matching house.  And this is without even adding in the complication of the garage. Toskin Test.plan

Toskin Test.plan

[scottharris]

Here's how the plan would look with the main floor and foundation.  I labeled the end walls that were set to Gable; hope this helps.