Suppressing area around foundation

[Goldbadge]

I just began using the Landscape and Deck Design software so please bear with me. I am a quick learner.

I've got my house built and a sample starter deck. What I need to do though is make the grass/ground level around my house go down. The bottoms of my current sliding and regular doors are 36 inches above the ground on my real house in the back, and an attached garage door is 16 inches lower than them, about 20 inches above ground level (in real house). My current deck is up off the ground as well to match the doors and slider on the house, and also steps down to match the garage door. The front is almost the same at 36 inches, but with a raised cement porch area. Anyway, how do I get the ground to go down all around the house, so that I can make the new deck be off the ground enough, and also so I can make a smaller deck area that steps down to match the garage exit door (not an overhead door).

To say this another way, I wish I could make the whole foundation stick out of the ground higher relative to the ground plane. Thanks in advance.

G

[charlie3819]

Could you post a picture please? That would help me see your problem. Let me know if you do not know how to do it, I would be glad to help (I had a problem posting pictures).

[CDS]

Terrain>Terrain Specification...

Uncheck "Auto Calculate elevation" and enter 36" (or whatever) in the box.

You can also just double-click on the terrain border to bring up that
terrain dialog...

[GordC]

If you have this dialog, change elevation.

Uncheck "Auto calculate elevation"

[GordC]

Doug,

You are too fast for me!

[CDS]

Wow, Gord - both posts at 1:58 - a nose-to-nose finish...

[Goldbadge]

Pictures as requested. Yes I know the deck looks like crap, hence my mission.

More pictures...

The last two pictures...it won't let me upload.

Thanks a bunch guys, that got it looking better. As you can see, it's a slight elevation grade up towards the front, I suppose I can correct with elevation lines. One other quick question. Where you see the attached garage door being slightly lower, how can I get that down to where it should be? I tried manually changing it with the door tool but it won't let me take it lower than the first floor of the rest of the house. My guess is I need to make it a separate room within the house then lower the floor in that room?

Thanks

[GordC]

Gold:

This might help as well:

http://www.homedesignersoftware.com/...?faqNumber=868

Doug:

If I wasn't busy drinking Tim Hortons coffee, I would have beat you