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Yes its unfortunate although there is a work around for that but takes some fussing. 2nd Elevation camera with shadows off. Send both to layout after detailing out one and copy and pasting the cad work to the second one. One with shadows gets cropped at grade one without shows below grade. Bit of a pain and work though and so I generally just live with shadows below grade or turn them off.

Downside to changing your foundation line type to dashed is that above grade they also show dashed. But tried and true method is a white cad mask over the top of the foundation and trace over foundation with a dashed line works for many. My preferred ultra fast version is to place a polyline cad mask over the below grade items and make the fill for it be a white colored angle hatch with no background. It cuts the black lines and makes it all look like a dashed line. Closer Look:

@Renerabbitt<--- Lets see a day inside Rene's head! @dshall<--- Always love his videos as well!

What I am showing was an 8" thick wall at the bottom and a 6" at top. If they need the 8" to go to grade you would just change the pony wall height to be specific to that height. Same concept.

Automatic (well Floor trusses have to be done manually always but everything else automatic) with trusses snapping to the narrower wall:

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Not sure that you are aware that this forum is 5 years old. However I believe what Joe was talking about was that when you send to your engineer you typically will do that from layout so that all the elevations and info are on the same page in the dwg file. Instead of sending a single elevation.

Hard to tell from the glass house view, vector is generally the best view to show issues with on the forum. If I had to guess though it appears that your exterior walls are slightly out if alignment.

Glad that worked. Maybe mark it as answer so that others can find it.

Make sure it didn't get turned off in Default Settings>Plan>Living Area section>"Show Living Area Label"

In this particular case Lew it makes a large difference as unless it came out with the newest version of HDP They do not have the convert polyline to walls tool so they really should post this question in the other forum to get the best advice.

Just keep in mind once you did this nothing afterwards you tried would work because the auto wall resizing goes away once you have manually edited a wall. Try re selecting the default top and bottom wall height in the structure tab first. Then try anything you did after that point.

Not saying the lack of these callouts are good but just an FYI you can change a "heap of cad detail callout labels" using the "Find/Replace Text" tool (Ctrl. + F/Cmd. +F OOB hotkey) Then you can search the whole document for say D-19 / A-07 and change it to D-20 / A-08....

It is very much appreciated and helpful to the forum that when someone fixes the problem they had that they share the reason they had the issue. So when others SEARCH the forum they can usually find the answer to their issue. Helps repetitive questions from being asked and helps the user find the answer quicker. A little way of giving back to the community. One new way that was recently setup to answer it is to mark the proper answer as solved/solution.

When you select a color with the eye dropper it doesn't give you the RGB values?

Looks like your foundation walls layer is turned off.

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And if @Chieferis busy @Renerabbittis one of the top rendering artist out there.

If you look in the linked discussion you will see that @Alaskan_Son has a way to do it on the interior that I have modeled many times using offset doors and invisible walls.

Build the model how you would build it in real life. The walls auto build to foundation and roofs and all heights are governed by floor and ceiling heights set in the room DBX if it is set differently than the default set for that floor.

Model the terrain in the exact same location in another plan file and use a reference view linked to the other plan.

I am sorry I have read your description three times and I am still unclear of what your problem is and what your goal is. Can you provide a plan or a more succint explanation?

So as Rob is mentioning the plan you uploaded was not developed. There is no doors or foundation on the plan yet. But after placing a garage door and auto-building a foundation with your defaults I found what I suspect your issue without seeing it is. since the rooms above do not have a room type specified it does not know to provide the floor from the foundation room below. Two options: 1.) Open the foundation room and specify that it supplies the floor for the room above (otherwise it thinks it is just building the frost walls and the room above will have a slab poured on-top). OR 2.) Specify the rooms on floor 1 as Garage type if that is what you want which by default in your template has the floor supplied by the room below with a 12" foundation wall above the concrete slab floor which in case it knows to cut the foundation for the doors you place in it.

Well that is a user group…. But the one I was referring to is: https://www.facebook.com/groups/Chief.Architects.hire/?ref=share