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I use a foundation wall, CC block w/ stucco to match the upper floor wall exterior finish thickness. That results in a seamless transition from foundation to 1st floor wall on the exterior. The interior porch foundations walls were chosen to depict the thickened slab shown on the foundation plan view. But are actually stem walls that will not be built that way. Just seems like the porches fight me every time I create one. (every plan) I need to learn the proper, pain free, method.

Opening your plan I see this on the front porch

Mick, You mean drag a SLAB over the floor to create another object, then adjust the Z value to be 1/2" higher than the floor? What wall type (definition) do you use for porches?

Also many times I try to apply tile & the outer edge where the wall defining the porch is the tile is missing.

This is a common thing here in Florida. The porches are 4 to 6" below the main house floor. The structure is a stem wall or monolithic foundation depending on the height of porch above grade. Some have a roof & some do not. When the floor is high enough a railing is added but more often than not the railing needs to be set back away from the edge of the porch. This plan has a room divider defining the porch & a "no room" railing wall do show the raining in the correct place. In plan view, I do not want to show multiple dashed lines for the perimeter of the porch. Issue 1 There is a hole in the stucco by the steps. issue 2 wall type choices for proper room definitions issue 3 railing & column control techniques issue 4 foundations should not step down, only the floor should step down. My question is what wall types & techniques do you folks use to design these concrete porches? I know there are a lot of choices for techniques but what works best for you on concrete porches. Thanks for your time. Gulfport.zip

Thanks Mick I was afraid of that. Not the end of the world though.

How do you turn off the door open direction lines for just those doors in elevation view?

Sorry Mick, I sent the plan in the state I was working out the truss over truss base problem. I should have re-saved it. I'll pay closer attention next time. I certainly appreciate the assistance & time people take to help.

Thanks Eric Yes Mick, I'll be more specific next time but in this case, I thought there were many locations with that problem. You could erase the dimensions and regenerate them to see the same problem. I think the problem stems from a template file not set correctly. I'll find that one & fix it to prevent future problems. Thanks

Support said it can't be done with a truss base.

Try the Auto Exterior Dim & it snaps to the outer layer not the main layer. Did I miss a setting somewhere?

It is the main layer

The dim needs to snap to the wall sheeting not the exterior of the wall. What is causing this problem? Thanks Sterling Addition.zip

I did not realize or forgot (more likely) that you can edit the truss profile in a Section view by dragging the envelope of the truss once selected. In plan view you still need to drag the ends of the truss into position, lock truss & M-copy. That did what I needed.

I thought the Truss Base was the ceiling plane. Are you saying use a Ceiling plane in place of the truss base?

Eric, I have used it successfully that way. Just thought it would work in any direction. Oh well, manually built it is. I'm going to add a feature request. Thanks

Plan attached I'm having trouble with the truss base & building a truss over it. I built the trusses for the existing roof & need to show new trusses so I added a Truss Base. But the trusses will not build over the truss base. Any advice would be appreciated. Sterling Addition.zip

Thanks Mick Joey that was the trick. Thanks Much.

Mick, Not the same roof, but thanks. The roof built can not be modified to look like what I wanted. Eric, Do not understand the process but will try again when I return in a few hours. Thanks

That worked well Joe, Thanks.

Tell me about it. I have spent at least twice as long with this client talking her out of stuff.

Building these is a PITA, is there a better way? I just guess at the locations of the roof baseline when creating the roof planes needed. Once you have one you can copy but that first one is tedious work. Any ideas? Elrod.zip

Also the interior base molding does not respect the window.

Eric the exterior sill did fix that, Thank you. Joe I'll give that a try, although the customer wants Single hung. I guess I could fake a window. I'm sure the door would behave better.

I posted the plan here: