Terrain to house issue

[Digitalteck]

Hello.
I am new to Turbo Home and Landscape.

I am having a hard time creating a sloped hill for a house. I am trying to make a duplicate design of my parent's house, garage and land. Now they own 88 acres.

NO! I am not trying to put every tree and bush on the design just key points, building and driveway to road reference. 

Hopefully in a few years I will buy a few acres and subdivide and put my own house on the property so I am trying to reference existing driveway etc for new house placement to where I can put a separate driveway from the main road to new house when we sub divide. 

Here is my dilemma on working the terrain for my parent's house. The house is a 3 story; it has so called basement, second floor and 3rd floor.  House is 20' by 36' 4 inches.  Looking at the house from the front, the back side of the house so called basement is against dirt, only two feet of the so called basement wall is above the dirt. The right side is completely free of dirt. There is a stone wall 6ft high holding the dirt across the parking lot.  Also on the right side is a  6" 4 ft wide cement pad runs along the right  side of the house with a entrance door.

The left side there is a stone wall holding the dirt but the wall is only 2 ft high as the dirt slopes down to 18" then runs along the front of the house staying at 18".

On the back side of the house between the living room and the kitchen is a 10x10 enclose porch. From inside you step down one foot going in, then going out the porch outside you step down 1 foot again to a 6" 10x6 cement pad.  The ground has been graded to fill in around the back side of the house for mowing.

So the back side and ¾ of the left side are really against dirt.

I can do this by adding a 6" slope on the back side and widen it to make the back yard. And a small hill on the left side and front.

Problem is the slope extends in length the entire grid and it messes up with the 1000 ft driveway coming from the main road that cuts across the slope.

Main road runs along the back side of the house 1000 feet back. The driveway comes through the woods on the left side and curves around the front to the right side where the parking lot is and the entrance door on the so called basement.

The slope feature has width adjustment but no length adjustment for the slope.  I been trying both hill and slope features but cannot get the ground to come out right.

I I try the hill feature the issue is it lifts the cement pad on the right side of the house or covers the entrance door with dirt.  I did try using the settings in building locations. 

Hopefully someone has suggestions.

[Allan Chesney]

Hi and welcome to the forum.

Your landscape plan sounds complex when described so thesecomments are oing to be fairly general.

As you have found the Slope spans the whole Terrain so is impractical for what you need to do.the best tool for.multiple angle slope is the Plateau while can be any shape and is designed to follow contour lines. Ithe idea is to buildup the Terrain in short teps. Each step will increase the total height by that amount.

Draw the contour lines, joining to where you started, OFF the terrain on the hgh side. To build up vertical parts draw that part of the contour line on top of the previous lines. You cannot get it totally vertical but can use the Pad tool which will cut the Terain vertically.

This has been explained a number of times before and I have posted some images explaining it so try the forum Search for more details. Practise on a blank project first!

Allan

[Digitalteck]

Thanks I will look into using the Plateau and look in forum for cut options. Do you know what post you have the images on. That may help also/ Thanks Again.

[Allan Chesney]

Sorry I did not post a link before - it was just a quick reply using my phone so I was a bit lazy at the time. 
There are quite a few but this one is possibly the most concise:
http://forums.turbofloorplan.com/index.php/topic,2119.msg9383.html#msg9383

Allan

[Digitalteck]

Thanks this will help.