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will move it to the chatroom. And this is a simplification of my design. I do have a connecting breezeway and bunch of other stuff, thanks.

I want to have my house entrance under a gable roof. The garage would be in front of and to the side. I would like to have the axis of the garage gable at 90 to the house gable, like the pic on the right shows, which is a simplification of my design. Is this a viable option? If so, any special treatment to the facias at the intersection? Another option would be to have the garage gable parallel but offset from the house. Seems there might be an issue with debris collecting in the valley. Thanks, Dan

Thanks everybody :-) Mick: by hanging the floor on wall above, I was able to get the same, correct numbers. You mentioned the stem wall and footings seem a bit high. Average frost line is 18" and foundations are to be 12" below that. So I chose bottom to be 30" below the grade. I read someplace that it's a good idea to have 18" of stem wall above grade, so chose that number. Ran into a problem in my current house where garden fill was placed within a few inches of the siding. Ended up having carpenter ants in my attic. Why do you say they seem to be high? Robert: Was also able to do the same thing with your method. Thanks! Wait....just read through the next replay and see it made the SWT too low. But how do you get dimensions to show up in the cross section/elevation view? I've turned on display manual and automatic dimensions in the layer display options but still don't get numbers.

Will take your suggestion about letting them build automatically then adjust. Thanks!

Thanks guys. The .plan file is what I expected, but don't get that. Reentered all the data at floor zero, nothing changed.

Thanks Eric

I chose the main floor level of my house to be zero. Garage floor will be 12" above this, as so in the garage room spec window I entered 12" for absolute elevation of the floor. Also entered floor to SWT at 18" and Stem Wall 40". This is shown in my hand sketch 'garage room spec sketch' attached. But when I entered those numbers and hit tab, the abs floor changed to -14 1/8" and the floor to SWT changed to zero. The diagram in the window was also different. That is shown in 'garage room spec'. I hit OK and upon reopening I got different numbers, abs floor -6", floor to SWT 18", and Stem Wall 40" (unchanged). All this is in 'garage room spec2'. What's going on? Thanks, Dan Windows 10, X12 TFE from itch4.plan

Hi! I'm designing a house to build. I've built a shop and an airplane, but never a house. I have an idea of what I want to build and rough sketched it in SketchUp and am trying to get a similar design in Chief Architect that I'll eventually be able to submit to the county and to build from. I'm new to both SU and CA but have watched several tutorial videos. I will have a garage with a living space above. Floor slab would be 12" higher than the house main floor and breezeway. Entry porch would be one storey. The breezeway attic directly in front of the house would serve as a walk in closet for the 2nd storey master, leaving a single storey L-shaped connector to the garage and covered deck. Walk out basement would exit at the bottom of the diagram below the deck. I've run into a problem with the roof over the master bedroom and bath. When I extend the roof over the front wall, the program extended the wall the width of the eave overhang. The same thing happened over the bumped out area for the bay window on the first floor. I deleted those two pieces, though. What can I do about these 3 little walls in these areas? Any other advice about other areas would be helpful. Thanks, Dan Windows 10, X12 TFE from itch4.plan