GeneDavis

What's under the slab as support, or is magic involved? There have been threads about foundations and floor structures for builds like what is typical in the tidewater areas, block piers, beams, floor structure, the single-weir brick perimeters. Have you looked at those? Very good content, with solutions.

Thanks for visiting, but HD Pro has its own forum. Most here don't know HD Pro.

Not according to the ANSI standard for residential, but what do your jurisdictions say? It matters in those whose fees for permits are based on footage. I've a client who is being charged, even for the garage.

That's what I did. Made one in solids to the exact specs for size, and from the seller's site, snipped a pic of the front for the linear fire, to paint on the opening panel. Sorry about the outlets in the pic. I forgot to turn their layer off.

When did you begin to use Chief and do you still have a template that has it in its as-shipped as-set-up config? You've obviously diddled with many of the settings. This is what is causing the unwanted results. Here's a tell. The tiny cross box atop your rim joist. Here's another. Your fur wall has one top plate, not two. Close the file, and post it here as an attachment. If large, zip. If larger, strip it of all its nonstructural stuff, then try and post it here.

In the section view, measure the ceiling height from slab to bottom of floor framing. In plan view basement, click a room, open spec > structure. Report back how room ceiling height compares to what it measured in section.

Click-select any room, or click all that have the same spec for floor sheathing and floor finish. The structure tab in the room spec dialog that opens has what you want. At the bottom of the panel, floor structure, click edit to open the spec dialog. Chief out of the box will show two lines, sheathing atop framing, and each line can be selected to activate a structure type (or not). Note the choices. Framing. Detail as insulation. Air gap. Or don't check one. The top line, typically subfloor at 3/4" plywood or OSB, gets a no select (no one of the three are checked). The second line, typically framing like sawn lumber, i-joists, open web trusses, whatever, that line is going to be checked as framing, and the floor when framed will be autoframed with that material at the spacing specified elsewhere. Up-page, same panel, there is another box you can edit where floor finish is specified. Again, you can oreo-cookie up some layers, like for example, engineered t&g wood over a thin foam layer. Again, you can specify any layer as framing, and you must have done this, as you must have done for the sheathing in the floor structure dialog. Please consider spending maybe 40 hours to watch many of the training videos on Chief's website. You seem to be playing monte carlo Chief right now.

Looks like your subfloor and floor finish layers are turned on, and you checked each of those as "framing."

Duh. Thanks, Glenn.

If the Google Drive thing does not work, let's see if Microsoft One Drive can. This file has the change I spoke of upthread, in which I masked the offending lines with a white CAD p'line. You can select it and delete it, and you'll get the offending display of the pony wall in the Foundation SPV. Bly floor trusses.plan

I ended up masking it with a CAD polyline, color white, brought to front in drawing order. Who knows why it's there?

Here is the plan file. I compared the SPV, wall types, and settings to other plans I have done with this ponywall arrangement in walkout foundation configs, and this is the only one that behaves like this. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yxzkvTqCuGMCJHK7vgk1okSv6GEbLeh2/view?usp=drive_link

Thanks, @tundra_dweller, but I tried that and the exterior layers lines are still there.

I've a level 0 walkout basement, which has pony walls at the various walls that are walkout. The wall makeup is simple, 8" stemwall single layer below, OOB siding-6 above. I may have modified siding-6 to have 7/16" OSB and 1/2" siding, but what I have is a line I want to get rid of in the plan view. The line is the one with the 15/16" (OSB plus siding) offset from the stemwall line. See it in the image from layout, attached. To the R of wall break for the full height foundation, there is no line, as that wall is not a pony wall. To the L of the break, you can see the "siding" line. I want it gone. Pony wall display in the plan view is set for lower wall only. And lower wall is, as I said above, single layer 8" concrete stemwall.

Can't validate 'cause I'm just spitballin' from my phone, but I think eyedropper and painting makes duplicates.

I did a quick test plan and an unable to replicate your vertical line. I just broke a part of an exterior wall and made a segment of it like your scheme, same but no drywall inside. Something else is happening and we cannot help without your plan.

Redefine the stairwell "room" to have floor height equal to garage, and keep its spec as "open below." Break the wall where the door goes, make it balloon through floor.

In your pic, E1 is a callout. Go into your default settings and explore those for text. Play with some settings and see what you get.

It's done by you typing the word "insulated" in the comment section of the object information tab of the door's specification dialog. Same as you might want to do for those hinged doors that are foam-filled. The material spec is for assigning color and texture to the faces of doors.

How about those millions of foam-filled steel entry doors? Don't we need those auto/detailed with insulation? AFIK, insulated garage doors are built using rigid foam board. What is your preferred CAD pattern for that material?

I did a test build and indeed it applies and counts to material list, the roof finish (shingles, metal, whatever) on the under-roof of overbuilds. This is not the way it's done in the field in new construction. I'll go ahead and file a Suggestion that this be changed.

Does the count for shingled roof area, in material lists, count upper overframed roof PLUS the roof below on which the overframing bears?

Chief plans when doing electrical typically show "connections" for switching only, not circuits. Thus outlets are placed on walls and cabinets and wherever, but are not shown with circuit connection lines. I place GFCI receps where required by code and the electrical contractor has a choice how to arrange circuits.

Here ya go. I gave the extender a color. Five minutes twenty two seconds, would have been quicker if I had closed my other Chief files with all the open views.

What is a lot of work? Modeling a house in Chief? I did this in a couple minutes, but did not go the extra mile and do the surround jamb extension inside. I'll go back to the model, set the timer, and do the surround. The window is set inside the ICF wall, which is the way I do these. Fixed to the bucks with straps.