HumbleChief

Thanks for the advice Bill. I got it figured out and truly mean it when I say I do not know what I did. Just thrashed through each and every room with each and every structure tab till it worked. Even though I set the defaults for the second floor as wood framed joists I ended up with monolithic slab floors and the defaults were all over the place. I think I just started clicking defaults for everything in every room until I beat it into submission. User error? Probably but this one just went wonky at a certain stage and was hard to retrieve. Again thanks for the reply and advice.

If you're getting tired of these please let me know. http://www.screencast.com/t/7CvFFU5Y3m7T

Stoner? Love it. I would draw p-solids in elevation view and adjust/space to taste.

Funny, and frustrating at the same time.

Depends Jay, In the San Diego area new houses are almost all monolithic slabs poured at the same time as the footing. Older houses can be stem walls with crawl spaces and wood joist floor framing, like the remodel in the plan. The stem wall foundations give me the most problems when modeling in Chief.

Dennis, I almost always bail on the structure dbx and simply draw in the needed section details but always thought there must be a away to get the model right - all the time. Apparently there isn't but the help is always enlightening.

Thanks Perry, I think the exercise in futility is good in a lot of ways. At least I get to cuss at the 'hell box' on a beautiful Sunday morning.

A little more for those who might be helped by such wandering thoughts and musings. http://www.screencast.com/t/UOmw8LqB

Thanks always for the great help. I did get the slab to lower just as your dbx showed Glenn, but then the framing and sill plate were all wonky. It seems that now the outside stem wall height is following the new slab height and the sill plate is gone and raising/lowering itself along with the slab height. http://www.screencast.com/t/NArZUQvEL

Nice Bill.

I still call it the hell box but I bet others can find another name for it. Thought I would spend some time and try and figure the Structure dbx since it always stumps me. But alas it stumped me again. Still, after almost 15 years, simply no good reason (for me) to use it to create an accurate model. Here's my pathetic attempt and the plan in case anyone wants to play. I'm sure it's very very easy but my brain will not let the simplicity in. http://www.screencast.com/t/YQAVj4BE6BvT structre dbx.plan

Sorry Glenn, Bad explanation. There's no wall above at all. Just want to create a stem wall below, automatically. Figured it out with your help - Thanks. http://www.screencast.com/t/axbPsCxo4di

Simple box house 15 x 30 ft.. Auto build foundation - stem walls. Foundation appears around the perimeter. How do you place more stem walls. In this simple example just one more to divide the 30 ft length will be fine. It's NOT a bearing wall, just a wall that breaks the floor joists over. I want to keep auto build foundation on but manually building any foundation wall will turn auto build off. Can it be done with auto build foundation on?

I work with a contractor who takes his lap top, a projector and a screen for his presentations- just sayin'

That's what I found too.

Assuming that a pass thru has been already placed in position?

Great stuff you guys. I've been using slabs for many of the walls/floors in my baths but I think I prefer the partition method and will give it a try as it fits my way of thinking/working a bit better than other methods.

No sweat Graham, I appreciate your input and participation.

For everyone's information regarding "building shower walls" (if that is still deemed to be on topic by those who decide such things) if you choose to use the method described in the videos, this is a known bug per Joe Carrick and CA tech support. If you use walls that were created on the first floor, then saved to your library, they don't work on the second floor. You must first build the walls on the second floor then save to library in order for them to work on the second floor. It's been logged at CA support. Hope that may help someone in the future.

I agree it's important to stay focused within each thread and only hoped the post might help someone else using this same technique to build shower walls which seemed, at least on the surface, the purpose of this thread. I sent the plan to tech support.

This is probably a post better sent to tech support but I have some very bizarre behavior occurring with shower walls. I shot the first video thinking I could recreate the problem but of course it went pretty well. So I thought I would just run the video camera to see if I could capture the bad behavior and that video did capture it. It seemed to have happened with more than one action but in the case of the second vid it was moving an outside wall that disappeared the shower walls. I simply can't use this method at this time with this plan - the walls keep disappearing. Anyone else see this? Ever? http://www.screencast.com/t/NJzezFYATGW http://www.screencast.com/t/9ZGwHXYS Here's the plan. SHOWER WALLS 1.zip Apologies for the mumbling and stream of consciousness narration. Wasn't sure I was going to post the vids.

The new icons were created at a much higher resolution to accommodate larger monitors. The graphic design choices are a matter of taste. I have never liked them but it's a very small distraction for me and they don't get in the way of my work flow.

I've used slabs in the same manner for years but I really like the partition idea, as it seems to save a few steps.

That's pretty cool.

Here's another option, X7 ICON.ico Looks like this