Alaskan_Son

If you are trying to get the stemwall shorter then do that in the room structure tab. The stemwall height and resulting footing top height is controlled by the room.

There is no way to uncheck that setting in the strict sense of the word. The setting becomes unchecked if you drag the footing up or down in an elevation view though.

If you're in X12, open the Project Browser and look in the Schedules folder. You have a schedule called "ELECTRICAL NOTES" that's causing your problems. It's in a CAD Detail called "ELECTRICAL NOTES, CHIEF".

It seems like 3D PDFs were all the hype for a couple minutes a few years back. I'm with Mark though, they're overly complicated, more time consuming, and less effective than other methods we have now.

Material Regions won’t work on the outside corners. For those you’ll have to use something else. I would personally model them with solids.

As Eric has pointed out, this is easily controlled using the Resize About setting in the General Wall Defaults.

If you decide to go the symbol route, just import as a regular fixture, click on the Options tab, set the symbol to Inserts Into Wall, set the Depth to match your wall thickness + any desired offset into the room and then after you place the symbol, select it while in an elevation and click the Edit Wall Cutout Polyline tool. Now adjust your wall cutout to whatever you want it to be.

...Or maybe just download the free trial and then enter your key to upgrade it to a registered version.

Try downloading X11 first and then see what happens.

Much faster than drawing a line or using another member to make a square cut. No need to use trim either for one-off cuts.

I'm not familiar with sliding glass doors that are that large, but I do have a thought. What about using a steel moment frame type opening for that portion of the structure?

We definitely don't do that around here. Also don't think we would be allowed to inset the fireplace like that with any of the inserts we use.

Sorry if my post was confusing. I wasn't actually offering a solution. I was just trying to explain what is happening.

The problem lies with the Pony Wall definition. In order to get rid of the surface layers you need to turn off the wall layer. Turning off the wall layer turns off the concrete portion.

You can also use a Room Divider wall set to NOT invisible and no room definition in place of Mark’s cabinet idea. Just a quick example plan. Note that it still requires manually positioning the casing mounted hinges... Shed Door Example.plan

Hey, thanks for the tip Ryan, I've randomly used the break tool on framing in the past, but never made it part of my regular workflow. It never occured to me how much more efficient it would make certain operations. Very good tip. Thanks!

It can totally be done but would require creating the door as symbol and setting the appropriate origin offsets to get it out flush with casing. You would have to do the same with the hinges and handle (set offsets).

Ya, I totally get it. This would be a very good suggestion and would be handy for trimming framing members in other places as well (decks, railings, rafters, wall details, etc.)

I like this idea. Actually, I would be fine with simply having the ability to use polylines. Lines and polylines work, but they will only cut the framing members square. I didn't do it in the video, but just FYI, you can also drag out General Framing members in a truss detail and use those instead of copying and pasting members. I can get pretty sloppy and inefficient with the tools I use sometimes.

Quick followup note on the video I posted yesterday before heading out the door: The methods I covered aren’t necessarily the best or fastest route, and even using those same methods, in retrospect there are a few things I could have done differently to speed up the process. Anyway, its just a crash course in a few little truss modeling tricks we can use, and certainly not a best practices video.

You can actually paste that into a text box or callout if you want. Doesn't have to be in the room label.

2 things: 1. Try resizing that first column (width). 2. Try using the Scaling settings in the General tab of your Schedule Specification dialog. You probably want it set to Use Plan View Scale.

Seems like you didn't watch the whole thing. I showed later in the video how to edit the truss members to rectify that limitation. Anyway, I see that your plan is a little more complicated, but the basics remain the same. Edit the truss envelope as necessary, and then do the rest of what you need in the truss detail. Get really familiar with using these tools in particular...