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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

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.