Alexonian

A thousand thank yous.

Yusuf - How did you transform a Truss Specification into a Symbol? In your Arch-Truss.plan, when I click on the truss on the left, the convert to symbol function under tools is greyed out. Alex.

One more for the road. Is there a way to edit fascia boards manually? Here's the problem: X6 drastically overshoots beyond the end of the roof. Try as I might I can't find a way to manually pull back on the fascia and make it end where it meets the joined roof plane. The two planes are joined without problem via the Join Roof Planes button. Obviously the two planes have different slopes and maybe that is what's mucking up the programming. How can I correct this artifact?

Here is the plan view of the two knee walls, with that attribute checked in the wall specification dbx. Here is the perspective view of the knee walls protruding through the roof. My first remedial action was to go to elevation view and drag the walls down below the roof line. After doing this I still have some remenants remaining, like Groucho's eyebrows, above the dormer, looking like this: When I go to elevation view and click on the thin line (representing this feature) the program is telling me that I've clicked on a room. What feature of the room is this, why does it protrude through the roof and how do I remove it? Using X6. Thanks for any help. Bonus question: Lately I've been noticing that an orange colored distortion effect is appearing on my roof planes in perspective view, you can see a bit of it in photo #2. It comes and goes, as I move the camera around and appears all over the roof rather than being locked into one spot.

The point about main layers aligning is that the main layer in the 1st floor wall, the framing layer, is different from the main layer in the two components of the pony wall. When it's a plain foundation wall, everything aligns nicely with the main layer on the framing. When the foundation is a pony wall, then the alignment gets screwy. I tried attaching my experiment file where I created a simple box with the above walls but I'm having trouble uploading. Any who want to experiment should be able to do so with the preset walls (brick) which come standard with CA.

I'm still curious as to the proper technique, using X6 dbx controls, but I've figured a work-around - create a duplicate wall which mirrors the 1st floor wall, reduce the thickness of the 4" brick to 3" and then add a 1" brick as the outermost layer. Next set the 3 dbx selections on the 3" brick section. This lines up the 1st floor wall with the pony wall and creates a 1" brick overhang. Obviously the pony wall is not using the same wall as the first floor.

When my foundation wall is not a pony wall, everything works fine but it goes haywire when I convert the foundation to a pony wall. My 1st and 2nd floor are structurally defined as follows: 4" brick ("Foundation to selected line" is checked and the offset is set to 1") 1" Drainage plane 2" of Exterior Roxul 3/4" sheathing 5 1/2" Framing (Set to dimension and build platform) 1/2" drywall My foundation is defined as follows: 3" Concrete 3 3/4" XPS Insulation 1/4" XPS Insulation 5" Concrete. Together they make the following: 3" of brick bear down on a 3" brick ledge. 1" Drainage plane is over 1" of foam 2" of Exterior Roxul is over 2" of foam 3/4" sheathing is over 3/4" of foam 5 1/2" of framing bears on 1/4" of foam and 5" of concrete. Everything aligns perfectly. The brick extends 1" beyond the foundation wall. Now comes the problem I can't resolve - a daylight basement requiring a pony wall foundation consisting of foundation wall and brick wall. No matter which alignment option I choose I can't get the pony wall construction to align with the 1st and 2nd floor brick walls. What works perfectly for a plain Jane foundation wall doesn't work for a pony wall foundation. Can anyone point out what I'm doing wrong or a workaround so that all walls in the vertical plane align over each other (with the 1" offset of course.) I'm using X6. Thanks for your help. Alex