Draw a garage, shed, summer house, carport or canopy as a building of its own, with its own walls, doors, windows, levels and roof. It stands in its place on the plot and counts apart from the house.
1. Add a building
Click the floor field at the top of the left panel, then Add building, and pick Garage, Shed, Summer house, Carport or Canopy. It appears next to the house with walls, a door and a roof. A carport or canopy gets four posts.
2. Switch between buildings
The floor field at the top of the left panel says where you draw, like Garage · Ground floor. Click it to see each building with its floors, and click a building or a floor to go there. Add floor adds one to the building you are in. The other buildings show faintly in their place.
3. Draw on
Walls, doors, windows, rooms, a stair and a Roof… work in an outbuilding just like in the house.
4. Move and turn the whole building
In the left panel, click This building. Enter a distance Right and Down and click Move, or click Turn building 90°. Each is one undo step. A negative distance moves left or up.
5. How it counts
An outbuilding never counts in the living area of the house. Under the Dutch measuring instruction it is other indoor space or external storage, from the questions under This building. Under ANSI Z765 it is reported apart, never in the GLA. A carport or canopy is outdoor space.
6. In exports and 3D
Each level of an outbuilding is its own page in the PDF and its own rows in the CSV. With more than one building, the export of all levels adds a site plan, and the DXF of it has layers per building. In 3D every building stands in its place with its own roof.
Messages you may see
- Garage added next to the house. Draw on, or move it into place.
- Garage overlaps the house. Move it so they only touch.
- Garage moved. Undo puts it back.