I have looked all over the forums,
and at many, many mods, but I was
unable to find my question answered.

I would like to know if it is possible to
build all the way to the edge of the lot.

I am building "apartment" style houses,
ie. homes on small lots, packed in.

You can see what I mean in this pic:

The red area is the area I need to build on.

As you can see, there isn't exactly enough
room for a house on the foundation you see
here, so I hope you understand my dilema.

Thanks in advance! :p

Easy answer : it is impossible !
sorry

The last second row of the lot can be built diagonally only.

Yet, to expand the lot is the only way to build the highlit regions when proper expansion is made.

But without lot expansion, then like what patul said, no.


Related threads: (There're a few alternative approaches and/or experiments suggested in the bolded threads.)

Building clouse to the borders of the lot
http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=141535

Building foundations/walls near the lot border? *NOT POSSIBLE*
http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=243148

Building to the edge of the lot?
http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=239153

Cruise Ship Nieghborhood
http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=113954

foundation?
http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=182729

Foundations and Walls 1 tile from Sidewalk
http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=221381

Help! Location out of bounds?
http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=7937

How can i build row houses
http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=203437

Location out of bounds
http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=190331

Placing walls on the 2-tile lot boarder?
http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=243022

Promblem - Wall to edge of Lot
http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=113730

Putting lots next to each other
http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=224602

request, build the wall to the edge of the ground...
http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=95968

Walls on the edge of lots
http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=135710

Wall Problem
http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=36055

- largest lots:
City Airport
http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=31405
Help on making a Two Lots Building?
http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?p=676916
One building on two lots??
http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=78221
Possibly The Biggest Building
http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=78904
request, build the wall to the edge of the ground...
http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=95968
Two Lot Building (Model only)
http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=78937

Cruise Ship Neighborhood
http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=113954

Aww......

Thanks anyway,
I'll keep looking
anyway. (CRAZY)

ow i was whanting to know the same if i find a way i will tell you all!

Funney, dont waste your time too much, since years 100% of the builders tried to do it ....without any success
Its is a structural game limitation. As said niol the only way to build in these areas is to expand the lot (andi8104 LotExpander works untill EP3).

A big fraud of my previous post is that one may be able to mod that limit... even though it's impossible in terms of build-tricking.

I'm no code-guy,
so I'm just guessing,
but it seems to me anything
written in code can be changed,
you just have to find where it
is, and all that.

No, if it's hard-coded in the exe or similar file, even the codes and blah blah are known, one may still fail to mod it. It really depends on several things.

ow i juss we will just have to put up with it and go for the bigger lots then

We'll see........
SOMEONE will do
it.

Eventually they will do it, but will it be before the sims 3 comes out? Don't get your hopes up. Maybe maxis will fix it in ts3. Who knows?

A workaround that is very tedious but worked is to use the lot expanders. The terrain has to start off completely flat or else you get a phantom floor effect.

Lay all the lots, a size narrower than you wanted. Use the lot expander to expand the left hand edge of each of the. Then you can arrange the walls in such a way that they appear to join up and create adjoined buildings.

As say Inge walls cannot be joined but fences may be with the lot expander... Caution its works only up to OFB (EP3).

:D... the graphical overlapping trick... :D
Back to the days nobody wanted to try before the emergence of the tool...

Patul, the walls can be joined, I have done it! What you have to do is exactly duplicate a part of the building on both overlapping lots. Provided the land was completely flat it will work very well visually. You will simply see the graphics changing to the lower quality two squares from the edge of the lot, but there will not be a gap.

Obviously the wall cannot actually go over two grids from the edge, but when it ends the fake graphics from the expanded next door lot will take over.

Inge, I am often thinking in uploading terms, not in game play only.