Can someone please point me to a detailed explanation of the correct order to draw a set of house plans? I am assuming I am doing something wrong in the first few steps, and then it is nearly impossible to correct my missteps. I am trying to draw a 2 story house on a crawl space. The garage is on a slab on grade connected to the house with a mudroom. The garage has a bonus room above with 2' knee walls, so my bonus room floor is not on level with my second floor of the main house. Here is what I did:
1. drew the main floor.
2. added a floor system.
3. saved as an upper floor.
4. got my roof to work.
5. used auto basement to create my crawl space.
6. drew my garage.
7. adjusted my garage walls down to grade.
8. Added garage slab.
9. Drew my bonus room walls.
10. added a bonus room floor
11. Adjusted everything down to sit on garage walls
I have spent 4 days trying to get this all to work and stay in place, but sometimes when I edit something the bonus room jumps back to match the second floor of the main house. Other times the garage slab goes back up to first floor. I have tried turning off clean up, but the house is still in the design phase, so I have to keep changing things. I have tried doing the garage as a separate project and using the neighborhood... same issues. I have tried copying the garage back into the main project, same issues and others. I have tried reference points, but that helps with a second floor, not varying heights on the same floor. There are some images of my errors in the neighbor issues post.
I've been drawing in softplan for over 10 years, and have never had a project where I was able to draw this type of project smoothly. Sorry for the wordy post...
Dave