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Hi Jason, Thanks for the reply. This is kind of what I started doing, breaking walls & modifying thickness. I'm resigned to the reality that with a project like this, until we actually start stripping away drywall we really have no idea exactly how each little section a wall is framed &/or padded. The one area we did this with already was a half wall behind a kitchen peninsula with plumbing, and it revealed a combination of metal studs of various depths some padded out, some not.

Hi Michael, Thanks for the reply. So the procedure for that would be to build the wall as the main interior or exterior type & then once the intersecting walls are placed view the wall in elevation & change thickness of each section by building a material region? That does sound a lot simpler than different wall types. Thanks, I will give that a try. That's Cocoa Beach seen from the 11th floor balcony, a couple of miles south of the crowded public access beaches so it's a fairly private stretch of beach.

I'm preparing a remodel set of drawings for a unit in a 45 year old, multi-floor condo building where no original construction documents are available. Entire unit is being remodels so wall board, fixtures, flooring, doors & windows are being replaced. We have measured the entire unit & I'm now using those measurements to create the as built plan. The problem I'm running into right off the bat is wall thicknesses & composition & how to easily lay this beast out without having to create dozens of different wall types/thicknesses to match what is there. There are internal structural columns that bump out into several rooms, the walls they intersect are padded out to different thicknesses on one side to the other so a long straight wall with no in and out bumps & other irregularities is rare. Are there any methods for laying out & setting up dimensions to measure from outside surfaces of walls like these that will make laying this out any easier? Thanks for taking a look. Keith Chief Architect X17 Windows 10