Nick29

Thank you so much for taking the time to fix that up Mark that's a great starting point for me, very much appreciated.

Looking at the plan I can understand what you were saying Glenn about not having lines running through regions.

Thanks Michael for your advice too I'll see how this goes with the driveway.

Out of interest looking at the DTM layer are the intersections the points where the elevations where taken during the survey?

Thanks Glenn, I've attached the plan zipped so it doesn't exceed the size limit.

I've tried to include another elevated region at the back as well for the stepped retaining but getting the same issue.

Draft v0.1.zip

Thanks.

I've created three regions but I'm seeing odd spikes how do I smooth this out?

I initially tried to create regions within the terrain perimeter as I want to add retaining on the side and back but that created some bizarre results.

I think the regions are snapped in with the red 'x'. What am I doing wrong?

Hi there,

I've recently purchased quite a steep sloping block of residential land and using Chief Architect to design our new home. I'm not a professional my intent is to provide a builder with a floor plan that they can then use a starting point. I have some specific requirements and with the nature of the block I really need to visualise what it will look like and see what will and won't work, taking into considerations costs for the slab, retaining, steepness of driveway etc.

I've watched a number of videos but what I'm not grasping is the overall process for designing on a sloping block. I want to work with the land, and this will mean that the ground floor will be across two possibly three levels with the upper floor on one single level.

I have imported the survey DWG with the contours, defined the terrain perimeter, marked the setbacks and drawn the walls. I'm thinking to position the garage and utility room around a meter lower than the rest of the ground floor to reduce the incline of the driveway

My questions:

1) Should I use the 'Flat Region (Cut/Fill)' tool for creating the slabs? I don't see a way to adjust the height i.e the depth of the cut?

2) How should I adjust the height of the garage and utility room on the ground floor so I have the short stairs going up to the entrance?

Thanks in advance for any advice.

Regards,

Nick

(Premier X13)