MN_JohnH

In past versions there was a button on the side where I could toggle on or off weather the marquis would select only things that are totally inside the marquis or anything that is touched by the marquis. Since I have been using x12, I can't figure out how to get this button back.

3 minutes ago, robdyck said:

Your problem is this added light. Select all, then deselect the light. You'll be good to go. Or turn off the added light layer!

Very good, thank you. It's always something simple but this one was kicking my butt. I don't know why I had that light source there in the first place.

When I select everything to rotate, rotating is not an option. there is no rotation handle and in the transform replicate the rotate is not an option.
I can select one element and rotate but if I select all, it is not an option.

Here is the plan with just the terrain and perimeter and a plot sat image.

just terain.plan

I know this has been talked about before but I can not find it and I can't figure out how to do it again.
I have a house drawing and I have the terrain drawn and I would like to orient the house differently on the terrain. I want to keep my house drawing square with my plan so it would need to be the terrain itself that has to rotate. I can rotate the terrain perimeter but that doesn't rotate the elevation lines etc. When I select the perimeter and all the elevation lines, i am not able to rotate the whole thing.

On 12/19/2019 at 9:58 AM, Kbird1 said:

 

Does it fix your Framing issue too ? I am curious...... 

I didn't try that solution as the raised roof seemed to give me what I want and I have not really built framing for this plan yet. Just trying to ge the plan worked out first.
Thanks for the comments.

On 12/17/2019 at 11:09 AM, Alaskan_Son said:

It looks like you solved your problems for this particular project, but what about those situations where you might actually want the roof lower like that (because they do exist)? 

 

I believe your problems with the floor finish building through are likely because your walls defining that room are being cut down too short by the roof above.  When the walls are cut too short like that, they no longer stop the floor from building through...

 

so, in order to address this, you can leave your roof planes right where they are and just define a very small attic area in that area where your roof is cutting into the room anyway...

Thanks for the tip Michael, that is a good idea.

6 hours ago, SNestor said:

I would just raise your roof plane...even the windows in the dormer are sticking out above the roof plane.  

 

I am curious though as to why the floor finish is building out to the face or the "log" veneer...seems odd.  Maybe someone can answer that. 

Thanks, I was going to fix the windows later, (just sliding them closer together), but for some reason I wanted to keep the roof where it was while raising the ceiling/floor level from where it was on an earlier rendition. But now I can't see a reason for that so you are right, I will just raise the roof.

3 hours ago, Kbird1 said:

 

It would seem at some point you have lowered those Roof Planes ( see Windows too or didn't rebuild the Roof before turning Auto Roof Build Off and have changed some heights? )  The Roof Planes neither sit on the 1st Floor Top Plates or the 2nd Floor's Floor Structure.  Assuming they will be framed on top of the Floor structure they are 5 7/16" LOW  .....  , so you may want to raise them an extra 1 1/2" if you want a 2x6 plate for the Rafters to land on ( yellow in 2nd pic)

 

   No Window issues and no Floor poking through after raising Roof Planes to top of Floor structure.

Yes! This is what I was missing. the windows I knew I was going to have to fix, they were wrong from the beginning but you are right, I was taking a plan with a lower ceiling and raising the ceiling on the main floor without considering that the roof should be raised as well or somehow rebuilt to accommodate the new floor level. I probably would have figured it out eventually but sometimes it helps to get another set of eyes on it.

Thanks for this and thanks everyone else for the thoughts.

It is not an attic. Here is the whole plan. Making it into an attic room will work but then I have to deal with an unfinished sheathing on my ceilings etc.
Obviously there is something I am not telling the program to do, that is what I am trying to figure out.

Thank you.

Untitled_1.zip

I wonder why my second floor loft flooring is sticking through the roof and can be seen on the outside of the building?

Thanks, I didn't realize reference sets could be used this way. I will look into it some more.

25 minutes ago, solver said:

 

Why "other than"?

 

That's exactly what reference display is for. It gives you complete control over what's visible where.

I don't want to just "see" it for my own reference. I want certain things to be visible on different floors and then I can send them to plan view that way. I don't want every wall on the main level to be in red on my second level plan that I send to layout. I just want certain things, (like the outside stairs and landing on my garage or the landscaping), to be there.

It still seems like there should be a way to get things like landscaping to show up as I go to a different floor level, (other than using the floor reference display).
Also things like deck footings show up in the plan view on the basement or foundation level but I would like them to show up on the main level plan view as well.
I have a few garage projects where I have an outside stairs and landing up to a living space over the garage and I would like to get the stairs and landing to show up in the plan view on both levels. If I copy and past hold position, it will build a second stairs on the second level going up into space.

Seems like there should be a way to get things to show up as I switch floors, a layer setting or something. Not having any luck searching.

3 hours ago, solver said:

This is what I get.

 

What do you want?

 

Yes that is what I get too but I just wanted it to show on the foundation plan view. If I build the foundation I get it on the plan view but I get the stem wall with it on the cross sections..
After thinking about it, I think the thing to do is just build the foundations automatically and then when it is all done, go to cross sections and modify them, I also almost always have some step footings too so there are other things to change that won't rebuild properly. Anyway, I think I am good here, thanks for the help.

3 hours ago, glennw said:

You have the settings correct - making the wall a Bearing Wall and Create Wall/Footing Below.

You just need to Build foundation and the footing will build in the foundation.

The wall will look like a normal wall on level 1 and you will have a wall/footing in the foundation. 

Unless there is a pressing reason not to, I would always leave Automatically Build foundation toggled on.

That works except I really don't want the same foundation stem wall that is on the other walls. I just want a thickened footing under the slab. I can go to a cross section and drag it up but then the auto foundation will fix it later if I rebuild or have it on auto rebuild. It would be nice if I could just change the foundation on that one wall to a thickened footing under the slab. I can do that by just changing the upper wall to a foundation wall but then it doesn't show on the foundation plan. So maybe leaving it as a non bearing wall so that the foundation rebuild will not mess with it and just drawing the thickened slab footing under it in as Solver said, is the only option...

Now if I draw another interior wall and I want it to be a bearing wall shouldn't it show a footing under the slab on the foundation level? I can get it to show a footing by changing it to a foundation wall but it still doesn't show it on the foundation level. I need a thickened area under the slab under that wall.5-20-19 fresh.plan

11 minutes ago, solver said:

Change the floor structure to concrete, set the default foundation wall to ICF, select Hang Floor Platform Inside Foundation Walls when you build the foundation.

Awesome! thank you.

3 minutes ago, solver said:

A detail like this would be helpful.

 

This is using settings within the program -- how does it look?

 

Yes, that is exactly what I am trying to do.

26 minutes ago, solver said:

 

What's the difference? A crawlspace has the dirt removed, the other does not.

26 minutes ago, solver said:

 

What's the difference? A crawlspace has the dirt removed, the other does not.

Well that's the question I guess, how do you remove the dirt and make the floor above to be a slab? Lets say slab inside the ICF wall.

I am trying to construct a home on a slab and I am going to use ICF walls around the perimeter with footings. The bottom of the footing needs to be 52" below grade and the interior of the icf walls are filled in and the slab is poured either on top of the ICF walls or inside the ICF walls. All the tutorials show how to make a slab foundation or a crawlspace but I don't see an option for a stem wall and footing below the slab without a crawlspace.

My retaining walls never work like this. The effect the terrain in weird ways but they never create a held back land area with fill in behind. There has to be more to the retaining wall thing than this. I have been spending hours on this and can not figure out how to simply draw a retained area with a stone wall.

I can't figure out why the foundation wall is not showing up on the lower level plan of the drawing. As far as I can tell everything is the same as the other walls that have foundation/pony walls under them. It shows up on the elevations and camera views, just not on the foundation plan view.

foundation wall problem.plan

10 minutes ago, solver said:

Change it to a Room Divider wall.

That works.  thank you

I am stuck on this one. I have a railing at the top of the stairs that I can't seem to get rid of. When I delete it the stair opening disappears. When i re-add the stair opening the railing across the top comes back.

Stair rail problem.plan

This video shows what I am trying to do but it doesn't say how to draw that extra wall outside of the invisible wall. But I can see that it is in one of these threads somewhere, I will keep looking. Very frustrating with everything CA can do and it makes this so hard. I really want a double post corner too. I saw something about that in one of the threads. It seems like there are several different ways and it's hard to tell if people are discussing the same methods.