floor levels

[aurora_design]

i am doing a plan for a client where the house floor is 400mm off the ground. The garage is only 100mm off the ground. So when i do a raytrace or show elevations the garage is off the ground.

How do i set my levels up so that they sit flat on the terain seperatly??

thanks

Nathan

[jonathank]

Not sure I understand the question.

Both levels are off the terrain, but you want them both to sit on the terrain?

Do you want a slope in the terrain?

[aurora_design]

basically the terrain is flat. The house is sitting ok on the terrain. But the garage which only has a floor hight of 100mm instead of 400mm is sitting 300mm off the terrain so their is a big gap underneat. How do i lower the garage without making the floor the same depth as the house?

[aurora_design]

can anyone help??

[aurora_design]

its all good lovely people, i've sorted the issue out with a bit of good old aussie determination.

thanks anyways

Nathan

[Allen42acj]

What did you do?
My guess is added a foundation..

[aurora_design]

just put in minus 300 in the floor section...

seems to have worked... the garage lowered down to the terrain level....

[BuildingDesign]

Possibly your terrain is set to the wrong height. Click on the terrain perimeter then open it and the terrain Specification diag will pop up or go to terrain and select terrain specification in the drop down. In the general tab there is a section called building pad which sets the building pad elevation. I'm still on V10 so if you are on X1 hopefully this hasn't changed. Yours is probably set to "auto calculate " with quite a big figure in it.

[Allen Brown]

Around here, the garage floor is usually below the house floor also. The most accurate "real life" way you can fix your rendering is to add a foundation as Allen said. Another quick fix is to pull down the wall bottoms in elevation view, which you sorta accomplished with lowering the floor. The down side to your method is that when you lower the floor ht, you also lower any doors and windows, because their hts are determined off the floor. So, beware of that.