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Thank you Michael, I am attaching the PDF file I have so far as a mock up fo the city. I put the pony walls there thinking the I Joist would need additional support, but I did not really know the criteria to those and I placed them somewhat at random. Any insight would be helpful If you think it would be helpful I could attach the plan as well. Monte mock up .pdf

Thank you, thats a great suggestion.

Thank you Curt, I was told by a few builders and city officials a stamp from an engineer is not required. I was very surprised as well and it seems that a lot of these guys are just taking all the responsibility upon themselves.

Thank you for your insight, it truly helps.

Thank Graham, I was considering the same thing and I appreciate you confirming it. The one advantage about the plans I am drafting and plan to build is that each house will be built about 5-7 times per neighborhood, so paying to have a peace of mind I think it is well worth it.

Yes, I called them pony wall simply because they are short and because of my ignorance on this subject . In the next month I am moving from Texas to Oregon and everything seems to be different there. Here in Texas I would have never built a foundation on my own and anything structural I would have consulted an engineer and I would have needed to get their stamp of approval before building. I am being told that in Oregon is different. That I do not need an engineer because the city doesn't require one and that generally whoever drafts the plans drafts the foundation. It might be different once I get up there but I was trying to gain some more knowledge given I know very very little on the subject of foundations. Thank you very much for the info you've provided.

Solver thank you for replying. So far here is what I have. Am I completely wrong?

I am working on a stem wall foundation home. I have very little experience in this, practically and book-wise. For example, where to place the pony walls? Can you guys give me any pointers? Thank you!

thank you, really helpful

I am sorry, I am new at this , I am not seeing any red lines. Is it something I need to activate?

Thank you Chopsaw. You used the cross section not back clip correct? For where to where did you point the camera?

Any suggestions /best practices on how to accomplish a clean cross section view of a house similar to the attached image? I am attaching the plan I am working on as well as the image I am trying to make it look like. Thank you all for your help. Monte Mock up .plan.zip

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very strange maybe because im on a mac? I've closed down the file, computer and restarted. Now its working, thank you very much.

Thank you solver for your help. I've tried that but it didn't work for me, at least not completely. It screwed up my ceiling plane. What seems to work is checking on no room definition.

Hey guys any thoughts? It seems that the half-wall that I put by the bathtub is cutting through the sheetrock of the adjacent wall. So I then tried and added a custom backslash and it cuts through that as well. Any help would be much appreciated. Russell.plan

Thank you guys for all your help.

By adopting this method, how would i go about setting coordinates?

Thank you, I’ll give it a try.

Ok that was what I had thought. When I tried to do it live, I found it very difficult to move the house in the correct location, any suggestions?

Thank you for your post, when you guys say live you mean? Aside from the couple of videos on chief’s sites, do you have any recommendations on where I could find more info? I know I am showing my ignorance but if I don’t ask I wont learn

Thank you, that is pretty much how I did it but is there a way to control the displayed layers?

That is correct.

so basically I need to treat this as a different process than the house plan?

I followed the several tutorials and I used the cad tool. Is there a better/different way of doing it? First time doing this