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When I un check the Foundation I get this, but want the areas marked in red.

Attached is a plan I am practicing on. The exterior foundations need to be 16" tall stem wall foundations, 8" stem wall centered on 16" wide foundations. The interior foundation needs to be a thickened slab with 4" lower garage floor slab the bedroom floor.

Obviously I don't know what I need to do. I'm in plan view on level zero. I use the foundation wall tool to draw the wall & foundation. Now I need to delete the CMU wall & change the foundation to look like the above example & raise it to the floor elevation. And you do that how? I'm not looking for a cross section detail, I used that to show what the structure should be built like.

I have a need for a foundation where the garage meets the interior of the house. There is a 4 or 6 inch step down to the garage floor & the wall is bearing so I need a foundation. This is slab on fill so the foundation is a thickened area in the slab with a 6" step down. Is there a foundation tool for this or do I need to add hidden wall in the foundation plan & use primitives to draw the foundation? Any advice is appreciated.

Here are the two upper corner cabinet styles I see quite often. How would one do this in CA?

OK, starting to understand cabinets a little better. Looks like back splash comes from the upper cabinets by default. If you turn on the base cabinet back splash you can cover some issues with the lack of a bind corner cabinet. Looks like manufacture cabinet catalogs are to be used with CA boxes. i.e. the doors & Draws are applied to the CA boxed. To use this mfg you need to save to user catalog for future use. Is that correct? Placing the cabinets can be tricky as they appear to snap into place but a closer look shows that errors in the snap of 1/8" can be present. This shows up in camera view as gaps in the backslash. Any tricks to getting the correct placement the first time? Thanks

Thanks, Off to celebrate, Merry Christmas.

When you have a dead corner, how do you get the back splash to show? Did not see a stock cabinet for this situation. Thanks

Larry, That is very nice video & I'll use that method. Thanks so much for the help.

Great videos, thanks I was using marker with text & the insert point is center but that may work as well. I'll give it a try tomorrow morning. Thanks all.

See if i can upload a video. CopyBasePoint.zip

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OK, sorry I wasn't clear. I want to change ALL the text style Defaults at once to No Fill.

I want to copy & paste based on a base point. I inserted a Mark with text and now want to copy & past based on the CAD line adjacent to the original mark but to the other CAD lines. This is sooo easy in CAD, what is the trick? No I don't want to replicate 9' then 16" then 10' then 16" the 9'-6" Got to be an easy way to do this basic task.

I find that in this drawing I want to change ALL of the text style Fill to "No Fill" Is there a macro for that?

Maybe this thread: http://www.chieftalk.com/showthread.php?59607-deck-railing-with-balusters-over-rim

Thanks - that did it. Not a fan of point to point dim's yet. They have a way of snapping to unwanted points & are not associative. Not sure why I had more than one main layer. A beginner mistake I'm sure. Now I have to go back through all my condo plans & fix that wall definition.

See attached plan. Auto dimensions does not get center of the main devising wall. What am I doing wrong? MacDill TH-UnitB.zip

I would like the option to pick & pick ILO pick + drag for most commands. Try to zoom in to pick precise point for a dimension then to get to the other side of the house before releasing the mouse button. I can't pan, I have to use the arrow key to pan to the other side of the house to pick the precise point. I hate this! Maybe there is a better way & I haven't discovered. Clearly I prefer to pick & pick not pick drag.

The SSD looks too small. Are all the plans moved to a server or other backup? I ask because all my stuff stays on my machine.

You mean drag the wall vertically? When selected it doesn't always have a grip to pull it down. What view do you use to get that grip?

See attached Perry. Look at the exterior wall. test exterior wall2.plan

Interesting solutions. That looks great jim.

My simple awning if anyone is interested. Awning Sun Shade.zip

I think I know why, the floor 4" thick does not extend under this wall as it is outside the envelope. But what is the recommended method of extending the footing wall to the partition wall. I say partition because it divide the two units and the entries.