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This is how it should be shown on 2nd floor plan view. Done with CAD Lines.

Thanks for the advise Frank but I think I tried all the work arounds for correct plan view & none work on this project except to draw the stair with CAD lines. So much for automated drawings. See the attached section view. makes the floor area on the 2nd floor look smaller due to top of 2nd flight showing in plan view.

So the 5 minute operation of adding a closet and closed area under the stair turns into an all day affair chasing answers.

Sorry for the layer confusion. I meant Layer SET. In the floor plan Layer set the Stair is off so if you investigate the plan use the Electrical layer Set to view the stairs in plan view. Because with the Floor Plan Layer Set all you see are CAD lines representing the stair & railings.

I've been fighting with the closet under the first floor stair. I used cable railing so I needed a railing wall that follows the stair. Don't know of another way to accomplish that. So when I add one or the other the existing wall is removed. Plan attached. FYI I am using the electrical layer SET to mess with stair as in floor plan layer the stair are turned off & I use CAD lines to represent the stair. MacDill TH-Unit A.plan

Tough to say without a plan file to test but try removing the room divider, make the wall extend through & use an OPENING to get the area next to the cabinet open.

Never mind I found the Back of group button in the dbx.

I have a revision on PDF file from customer, 2nd one in the file. I deleted the original PDF when I finished the preliminary layout. I imported a 2nd PFD for revisions but it cover all the objects. How to get the pdf to be below the walls & other objects? The pdf is set to transparent. BTW why is there a Bring to Front command but no Send to back command?

Thank you sir, glad to hear someone is listening.

Wow, so much for a dynamic table if you have to explode it to text. I won't say any more because apparently I've been complaining too loudly.

Creating a room area table from a room finish table & want ceiling height in feet & inches like the room dimension column. How to change this column from inch only to feet & inches?

Happy New Year Bob. I too feel like a village idiot with my many questions but I refuse to quit. The video's I've seen do leave out things that are slightly different than the situation at hand. Sometimes it can be a little error that is unseen so having a plan file gives these guys a chance to investigate. From the picture in plan view I see some suspicious areas. No telling if any of them can be causing the problem & I don't have time to do more investigating now. Not that I would be of any real help as I enter month 4 with this software.

Looks like you got it Scott. For my taste you need to reduce the foundation thickness on the left wall. It will give a flat bottom & not the inverted top hat look. See attached 220 on left & 320 on right foundation height.

PLAN IN ZIP FILE IS ZERO BYTES.

You guys rock. Took some study but I see how you did it. I will have to create 2 or 3 new wall dbx for these foundations.

Glen, Please save to X6.

I still can't figure out how you did that. Also I often have floating footings (not attached to an exterior wall) and look like this. You can do this by adjusting the WALL DBX?

Getting closer, Footing on left should be identical to one on right. Can't be done? I suspect all the exterior garage footings now have the chamfer like the one on the left. Correct? You got a lot closer than I did. Thanks Perry.

Great videos Scott, Thanks so much. I enjoy watching the process. The goal is to make the partition wall foundation a "Thickened Slab" All other walls are stem wall. Here is the cross section. Don't worry about as I'm out for the rest of the day & you should be too. Happy New Year. Thanks

My sympathies Perry, I too am fighting the flu & my wife is sicker than me. That's no fun I can tell you. Thanks Scott, youtube says still processing so I'll check back soon.

Perry you make it sound so easy but for the life of me I can not get it. Could I trouble you to post a plan file as follows: Four exterior walls on stem wall foundations. One partition wall separating living area from garage. Garage floor dropped 4 to 6 inches Thickened slab foundation under the partition wall shaped as per my detail.

Boy i hate to be such a dummy but every time I change the partition wall to mono the perimeter foundations change too. I want three side of the room to be stem wall. These are exterior walls & carrying three story block structure & therefor must be larger that the partition wall which only carries some floor trusses.

So my conclusion is that you can not mix "Stem wall Foundations" and "Monolithic Foundations" on the same slab? My only successful solution is to use a solid for the thickened slab foundation & a Divider wall for the step down on the foundation plan. See attached. I drew a cad line in section view the shape of the foundation, converted it to a polyline solid with a depth of 20' In plan view I lengthened it to fit the garage & had trouble elevating it into proper position. I had to use a prospective view to look from under the slab to select it & use Transform/Replicate to elevate it. I'd say that 80 plus percent of my houses have some interior bearing wall "Thickened Slab Foundations". This is very frustrating. Foundation1.plan

Thanks so much Perry, close but I want the exterior footings to be stem wall. Only the interior will be Mono. Here in Florida this is a common condition as the lots are so flat that only a 4 to 8" step in the garage is needed. Can you change the exterior footings back to Stem wall? Off to get dinner. later

If I go to level 0 and change it to Mono all the footings in the bedroom change to Mono