mpatalsky

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  1. 16 hours ago, glennw said:

    On floor 2, all your rooms are defined as Exclude from Total Living Area Calculation.

    Change them to Include in Total Living Area Calculation.

    Do a Plan Check to display the Living Area.

     

    Living Area uses the Living Area property, not the Conditioned Room property.

    Yes I caught that after I uploaded the file and corrected that and ran plan check with no success.

  2. 19 hours ago, Doug_N said:

    Not sure if I have captured the problem because I couldn't reproduce it, but I took a swing at answering a possible cause.

     

     

    Sorry Doug I was unclear, it's the Living Area. It's only displayed on the first floor. My only fix was to at a text macro to calculate it. Thanks for you time.

     

  3. Thanks guys, the check mark for floor supplied... was it.  I figured out the pony wall thing too.  

     

    One other thing I've noticed from on of the Chief updates is that the perspective full overview standard view has a lot less detail shown.  i have to do a rendering to get a half decent pic.  Mick, I see your overview looks good.  Is that a render?  I have attached my view.  Is there a setting I changed?

    Exterior.jpg

  4. That didn't work for me.  When I tried to input your numbers, it would make others change and that's the reason it feels like I'm chasing my tail.  It won't let me keep all of the inputs without changing ones I just put in.  Also, your numbers aren't what I am trying to do.  The garage floor should be on top of the 2' garage stem wall.  I have attached the detail.

    Wall Detail.jpg

  5. I'm chasing my tail on trying to get my model to build they way I want it.  I have attached the plan with a CAD "wall detail" on how I would like it to build.  One of the problems I have when I try to get the garage floor to be on top of the stem wall, it says it has a negative room value.

     

    I also for some reason the material for the lower pony wall is being put way below grade.  I can not figure it out and any help would be much appreciated! 


    Mike

    Weston Full Basement.plan

  6. Thank you both for bringing that to my attention.  I amazes me how the hell you guys ever figure those out.  It such a small tweak that matters in the end. I've never had a problem with basement walls like that before.  

     

    P.S. Michael, I love the Macro you made for me.  It works flawlessly with my total station!!!!!!

     

    Thanks,

    Mike

  7. I thought that was it but I changed all of those to the default and still no luck.  I did a cross section and then a story pole dimension and its coming up with the first measurement as 6 1/2".  That's not correct as its only 4" concrete but I guessing that is my problem because there's my 2 1/2" difference.  Just can't figure it out.

    Cross 2.jpg

  8. I recently bought a robotic total station to stake my homes.  I clicked on the "Plan Footprint" to get my foundation footprint and exported that to both a dxf and a dwg file to import into my data collector but it says that it does not have any x,y or z information.  


    Does anyone have experience with what I am trying to do or knows how?

     

    I can manually input the points or corners of the house into my data collector but that is redundant and could lead to errors.  


    Thanks,

    Mike 

  9. When I start a new project I name it the customers name followed by todays date.  Every day I rename it with a new date.  When I eventually send it to the layout on that date it has that file name of that date.  

    My problem is I have to relink the layout with the latest version going forward.  Is there a way to automatically do this and is there an automatic way that it populates a "new revision" using a macro?

    Thanks,

    Mike

  10. Wow guys thanks for the detailed explanation.  I stepped out of the office & I am looking & considering these options.  Quickly looking at this it looks like Steve you did not drop the footer down in the garage 32".  This would give me the header room for the garage doors. I never knew or notices the "shelf ceiling".

     

    Thanks again! 

  11. Joey, I looked through the bdx & I think I have it setup correct.  Solver, I inputted the values & it didn't accomplish what I need.  If I normally have a garage wall framed at 133 1/8" (121 1/8" + 11 1/4" joist + 3/4" sub floor) to match my first floor walls, I want to lower all of the garage walls 32" below the first floor walls including the 24" stem wall & footer.  

     

    I realize I would have a girder truss or beam to support the second floor that is above the garage.