MN_JohnH

OK I think I figured it out. It is the pony lower wall wall properties setting that I need to change from the brick veneer to the fir stud. Once I change that everything seems to work fine. Seems like that was a setting in my template, I don't know what it didn't turn up as a problem before now.

Thanks, that looks like it should work and when I open you plan I can see that the walls are lined up the way I want but when I go back to my plan I see I have the settings exactly the same as yours and the walls don't line up.

Thanks for the try, and yes it is beautiful this time of year in MN before the bugs come out, (and if nobody throws a spark out the car window). On the plan I attached, I hadn't moved any walls or change any thing, i had just drawn 4 walls and built foundation and that is how it came out. I just tried setting the auto build foundation but that basically does what I already did, the same problem still exists. It seems to want to line up the exterior of my ICF wall to the exterior surface of the pony wall above. So I tried adding the stone veneer of the pony wall to the foundation wall but it still lines up the exterior of my ICF wall to the exterior surface of the pony wall above and now my stone veneer on the foundation wall protrudes past that pony wall surface above. I can meticulously go through and move all my foundation walls, (I did that once but upon rebuild I am here again). There has to be a setting that tells the walls which surfaces i want to align. Can't figure out what I am missing here. I just watch a video on foundation wall and they don't say anything about this. Their walls just lined up perfectly automatically with the exterior surface ignoring their pony wall. I change d my foundation to 8" CMU and the results are the same still, the exterior of the CMU lines up with the exterior of the pony wall above.

Seems like there used to be a setting for lining up the surfaces of the foundation wall. I know it is here but I am not finding it. Foundation problem.zip

Thanks, I guess I was looking at the main floor for settings. Makes sense. I will probably forget and need to ask again in a year. For selecting the rooms I just made a backup copy then eliminated walls until there was just one room and the made the changes and copied and pasted walls back. In the past when I have gone through and selected rooms there would always be a closet somewhere that you don't see and then later on it becomes evident that things are messed up. Anyway, thanks for the help.

I am looking back at this as I have to do this again with a new plan. I have my floor plan done and now I want to arrange my floor to be as we talked about above. So one questions is, how can I select all the rooms at once instead of having to do each room by itself? And I am not getting the floor structure in an editable mode even on the sample plan here. It seems the setting might have changed since this question was first asked.

Thanks guys, I guess this is right, I need another line. Seems like in the past I was able to just put a line at a different level than the terrain perimeter and it would just take the terrain at the level it is and flow to the one line. Sorry for the trouble.

This is a first for me, I have never really had any problems with terrains with basic contours. I have a simple terrain here drawn and an elevation line and an elevation region at different levels. But in camera view the terrain is still level. It started in another plan but seems to be in this plan to when I simplified it just to see if it was a plan specific problem. If I keep playing and add some more drastic elevations in different place I can eventually get it to show some drastic results but it is not performing as normal. Is there a setting I changed somewhere without realizing it? Terrain problem.plan

Thanks, I could find a way to eliminate the material on the cantilever but I just drew in invisible foundation walls and that fixed it. I figure it was something like that but I didn't think to try it. Thanks for leading me in the right direction.

Thanks, The concrete is a 1.5" overpour for the floor heat, it is on top of the OSB sheathing. I don't think that would cause my problem but obviously I am missing something.

I have a crawlspace under this addition and there is a surface there at the level of the bottom of the floor joist with no thickness and I can't click on it to figure out what it is. I can't get the file down to under 14mb even zipped so I have a link to a dropbox file https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/moyz5trozohubrrg0cycp/Problem.plan?rlkey=4fn1ul395kdfz0t0i5rtgaq63&st=i7jc3hjt&dl=0 That is not a room so there is not ceiling there I don't think. Camera #14 shows the space where the problem exists.

Wow, yes that works. Seems a bit silly but OK. I just have to go through and change all my window sizes so the ROs are right. But at least I know it can be done for the future. Thanks!

I am wondering if there is a way to raise up the window sill on the interior? We like to make the top of the window sill flush with the top of the inside of the bottom jamb so it becomes all one level, without that step shown here.

Thanks, at least it's not just me this time.

It seems that when I try using TJIs for roof rafters, they don't automatically size down to the sub-facia size on the overhangs like the regular lumber ones normally do. Is there a way of making this happen? I am using the I-joists for the roof framing and I want to frame the overhangs with 2x6 sistered on. I can detail it out on the plan but I was wondering if there was a way to sort of make it show on a framing plan without having my I-joist rafters extending all the way out? rafter.plan