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I figured it out for those who ever have this problem. Don't delete footers along the footprint of the home and forget to add them back. There was nothing separation the living & porch space on the fdn....DUH

I will check....I think that gets updated automatically when you do the -4" floor setting.

I am about ready to pull my hair out and I am already a bald guy. In default settings my default floor level (one story home) is set to a 10' ceiling height throughout and floor height @ 0. I manually click my porch spaces & input the them to -4" floor level for the step downs in the foundation. Why does the porches sometimes keep resetting to 0 floor height or certain rooms inside set themselves to -4". I have fought this over the years but it has been quite a while since this has kept happening on one of my projects. It's like that game whack a mole in the room spaces haha......

This is a block stem wall by the way. I create these all the time with a rowlock feature and it is just not cooperating this time.

Yep, I may just have to do that. I was trying to avoid it. Thanks!

plan file link....... https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Mbo_8sML34dGUvglwzw9GtHtCZKFRgW2/view?usp=drive_link

Thanks guys let me see if I can compress the file.

I like to use sills on my stem wall tops. I am helping a fellow CA user (their plan file) in the area and we all use settings differently. When I build the fdn the caps are not sitting on the stem wall tops. I do not have the option to vertical and horizontal settings. Any advice what this may be?

Thanks guys! All good info.....

No X18 yet!

Is there ANYTHING else in the library for board & batten besides what we all have, CA board & batten and James Hardie products. Hardie B&B is too close together and looks like metal and CA B&B just doesn't stand out as well in renderings. See below, one is my file and the other is my same file I threw into chatgpt. The battens are way better in chatgpt and more appealing to send clients. Not a big deal though, just asking. I love CA, don't get the wrong idea.

I use railing walls and turn off everything except the top and bottom handrails then manually build everything else. I use polyline solids for the screen and paint it with a screen texture. For the door I use a glass panel door and paint the glass with the same screen texture.

I need to dress mine up but it got the point across I see. Glad between all the answers here it helped you.

Here is one I have in work.....base cabinets are the way to go..........and walls under stairs to form the enclosure. Client wants a space to lie down and read books. I gave him 7' of cushioned area.

Do you call out the radius on these roof plane types? I do every time I do them BUT wonder if it is more of a visual thing for the framer and he care less about radius callout?

Nothing changed since my last save. This is a tray on the 2nd floor. I ended up fixing it by unchecking "recess into ceiling" and it still pushed up into attic space. Oddly enough the other 2nd floor trays I have in other spaces worked with recessing it. Very weird. I found where I posted about this situation last fall but nothing got resolved from it.

Thanks DB!

Hey guys, I built a tray ceiling with no errors and even framed the ceiling with no errors. Upon opening the file today it says this. Any tips?

If it ever does take over, it was fun while it lasted.

I hear that! I knew the ICF was set up in CA but want to make sure I could do the rest and it be accurate. The roof panels are purchased from a vendor so I guess I will need to see the specs. It will be an off grid home with all ICF, in and out, catch rain water into a cistern and concrete floors above and below. Engineer should have a blast checking over these drawings when I am done.

Hey guys, would you take on a job using CA for Q-decking or (lite deck)? I can manually draw the steel floor trusses but is there a way to show the second floor as Q-decking w/ concrete floor? To me this is more of a revit job but has it been done in CA. I have zero experience in Revit and do not have time to learn it. Maybe just show a 4" floor structure thickness of concrete and draw in the Q-decking? The roof is purchased panels as well. https://liteform.com/products/litedeck/litedeck-steel-rib-system.html

Yep, It was a continuous wall before then.

The trick to fix the FDN wasn't reworking it but stretching the wall above across the bay window and it making one entity instead of sections, if that makes sense.

That definitely made it look better with the gutters. Now to figure out this foundation.

Hey guys, so I inserted a bay window. Raised the floor 36" and lowered the roof 12". It's messing up my foundation and rebuilding the Fdn won't even fix it. Any suggestions? Also, when I break the roof plan to cover the bay window bump out the gutters mess up. I I guess it's either turn off the gutters or leave as is? (The HOA wants to see gutters). I get the bay window isn't in the best place and creates an unpleasant roof but that is where the kitchen sink is and the front door are. I will look into other options for a more pleasant design but need to figure out the fix for this first.