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1. Is it best to start a floor plan on the 2nd floor when planning a basement so I can put basement /stem walls on floor 1, footings on floor 0? 2. I see I can have my wall defaults set to create a footing. Is it best to turn that off and use the foundation tools on a designated foundation floor? I'm a little confused why I have both options? Once I noticed I had two foundations superimposed. 3. How do I add two floors below a plan on floor 1 if I wanted a floor 0 and floor 1 for the foundations, in the case I started the plan on floor 1 by mistake? Create upper floors cut and paste the plans? 4. Is the best practive is to auto-generate a foundation then manually modify it like a roof?

You guys are awesome! Thanks! If it were not for this forum I would get a refund since it takes alot of time to get started, fishing through videos, manuals, training. It really helped David showing me out of that situation that you explained well. I learned alot and thanks for the video. You know I have 10's of thousands of hours on CATIA modeling and flow simulations I use in aircraft and auto design...this object based and house design is different. Using the CAD tools to modify the roof is more like product design(wireframe, surfaces, sketches-to-pads, etc) I am use to. I went through the manual roof training video, and they said I need to look at the CAD since roof are modified using it, so thats next. Once again, thanks! I am rethinking that choppy floor plan/roof....not a good place for a noob to start I see.

1. Can someone please tell me why my right cable end at top is creating a "V" notch out? The framing looks odd. 2. The fascia of my round tower has some funky things like birds mouth missing the sill and blocking going through rafters, tapers? 3. How do I create an energy heel? 4. Can I auto generate trusses? 5. Every time I build a roof or frame the default layer in my plan changes to add it to the view. How do I turn that off? SPEC 1 (curved great).plan

That took some playing around with temp and auto dimensions but I finally got it to work. Thanks!

Got it thank you very much! For the other noobs I changed my default floor/ceiling finish setting then each room spec to use default. Having the ceiling parameters in floor defaults is confusing! I'd like a ceiling default.

Ok got it, now I know. My curved exterior wall is also giving me issues generating studs.sills? SPEC 1 (curved great).plan

Hi, I read the other threads and still got no idea why my ceilings are not showing in X7. I have everthing turned on? See attached. SPEC 1.zip

Public, MLS here. I don't want to calcuate I want the interior dimension(s) to show when I move a wall, or is there another way to change the SF of the interior space easy? Anyone?

Hello! Thanks for all the help, much appreciated. New to X7, like but a little of learning curve to gain speed. How do I change room SF fast since when I move a wall, depending on the wall, it dimension temp default leaders ends default to center wall, outer, end, or some hybrid...never seems consistant. I know I can change the value by clicking the dimension box, but I have to do math depending on where the leader end default on the wall. Since the MLS uses "interior" dimensions for SF how do I set my auto-dimension to it? I checked my defaults or exterior and interior, and rom specification? I would think that would also refelect a more accurate total SF of the floor plan. See attached PIC and model. SPEC 1.plan

Thanks Perry

Better yet if someone knows how to make the tower a seperate room without closing it to the adjacent room so I can increase the ceiling/wall heiights so the roof is not so choppy? I want a full round roof on the tower and the rest to flash into it's walls.

I have this strange ban or doubler on my wall up by the roof, it is not even continuous. Anyone know why I get this when I add a roof using the Build Roof tool? X7 Premier.

Got is thanks! My first model and I think I confused myself by trying to create my foundation using the wall specs in the first floor that works differently than the foundation floor using the floor tool "build foundation"....I was not noticing my outer clading in flush to the outer footing where it should be. If I wanted to change the layers of the wall to add say a brick layer I guess I add that layer to my wall. I take it is best to build foundations on the foundation floor and not try and build them on the first floor using wall specs?

Thanks for the help. Curt yes I would like one at times how would I detail that? Larry does it have to do with something in this setting? Terry

Hi, new to X7. I set my wall defaults to "center footing on main layer" but it is aligning it on outside?