winterdd

This!

Holy cow, that would never fly around here. They are strict! Everything down to a single detached garage or pole barn has to be engineer stamped. Yet an hour from here in my hometown I just finished a 4k Sq Foot home that doesn't have to be stamped. Kind of wish it was though, I like engineer's being liable.

Unless the homeowner has other sheets saved all I have is the elevations and floorplan. BUT, the elevations do not even have story pole dims nor material callouts. Very generic.

It makes no sense to dimension this way for sure. I am not one to call out others for mistakes but damn, the brick isn't even scaled evenly so how can a framer lay this out? I was hired by the homeowner to modify it, which was never built, and it is going to make my job harder but I have my secrets to get it done. From the sheets I have it is just the floor plan and 4 elevations so I am thinking it wasn't a buildable set in the first place. Again, i'm just saying, not cutting anyone down.

Is it just me or should this screenshot, from a previous designer, be dimensioned from the stud walls not the brick?

Interesting technique.......but it works!

I'm trying to widen the stairs as they go down. I cannot get the flare tool to work, chamfered or radiused. What would be the best way?

perfect, thanks!

an example..................

Can we offset wall caps instead of having to check the "full wall width box"? Stacked stone veneer with caps don't need to rest on the stem wall and be in the way of wall studs.

Plan file too big. It's cool though, I don't mind carrying on like I have.

Good point guys, i am still having issues even when the garage dbx is set to mono. Atleast I now know I am not missing any certain ways to do this. Garages are square most of the time so drawing a manual slab is easy and probably what I will keep doing. Just wish the brick ledges came in when drawing them manually.

One thing I have found that is always a challenge are homes with different foundations. Take for instance a home on stem walls but the detached garage is on a mono slab. When you build the Fdn for main home and hit stem wall, it builds everything to stem wall including the garage. You hit mono for the garage the whole home is then mono. What is the workaround on this? I have always built the stem walls and then delete the Fdn for the garage and then draw in the mono slab manually. Obviously there has to be a better way chief intended?

that did it....thanks chop

yezzzzir!

all exterior walls are the same in the settings but show like this in plan view.......is this fixed in "edit wall layer intersections"?

Watching that video now........I have always overlooked style pallettes.

Why did I never think of that? Thanks!

Thanks guys.......the main problem is when I need to change door types. Material defaults did change all the colors which is cool though.

Why can't we go into defaults and change cabinet colors, door types etc and the already installed ones update all at once? We can do that on wall types but not cabinets? It's time consuming otherwise.

what I would have done too......

Or, just open this and drag and drop the temp. dim icon into the toolbar area.

Is the icon not there or not turned on?

Guys, I am glad you are schooling me on this. When I bought the computer I was part time 3 years ago with residential design and was not NEAR as busy as I am now. Now its my full time job and the projects have poured in more and more since 2019. Your feedback is giving me the info I need.