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I tried raising and lowering the SWT by " and I still do net get the hatch pattern to show up. Most of my residential projects are remodel and additions. The building departments require us to show a hatch pattern on the new footings. It looks like I will need add the hatch patterns manually. Thank you for the help. Mike

When I pulled apart the footings both the line for the outside slab and the inside footing lines both turned to solid lines. When I joined them together the inside footing line changed into a dashed line and the outside slab line remained solid as it should be. The walls did not change to invisible walls.

I just noticed that if I cut the footing in the middle of the wall and pull the footing apart by a foot or so the fill pattern shows up. When I connect the footings together again the fill pattern again disappears. Any ideas why this is happening ?

This was an automatic foundation using the build foundation tool. This is not a new problem. The only area that I can get the fill pattern to show up in the foundation plan is the garage stem wall. I also tried the straight foundation wall and the slab footing under the wall pull down menu. Still no fill pattern.

I already have it called out as a 12" wide concrete stem wall. Is there some other setting in the program that is not letting the conc. fill pattern show on the foundation plan ?

Were are you seeing the 6" concrete wall ?

I'm trying to get a conc. fill pattern in my new footings to show up on the foundation plan without success. I've added a screen shot of the foundation plan, wall type definitions, footing specification and layer fill style. I thought it added the fill correctly, but apparently I did not. Can someone let me know why the fill pattern is not showing up in the foundation plan. Thank you, Mike

I might need to call tech. support. I will let you know what I find out.

A couple of years ago someone told me an easy way to change a single dimension in a string. I should of wrote it down. I haven't needed do to this until now. I forgot how to do it.

How do you change individual dimension text in a dimension line. I have a dimension string that has a lot of smaller dimension like 1'-1", 1'-2" and 1'-3". They are writing over each other. I was told that there is a way to change individual dimensions where I could change them to read 13", 14" and 15". This way they will not be placed on top of each other. Does anyone know how to do this ? Thanks, Mike

Thank you. I see that we can create another footing type. One with the stem wall hatched (new) and the other without a hatch pattern (existing) It would be better if we could put a hatch pattern on the footing as well. Adding or subtracting a hatch pattern on the stem walls works for raised foundations, what about slab footings ? If the project you are working on has a lot of footings it could be time consuming to draw a polyline around them so you can add a hatch pattern. Hopefully CA will give us the ability to add a hatch to the footings.

How did you do that ?

I'm on X11

I am working on a room addition project with a raised foundation. Chief has a speckled hatch pattern on all of the stem walls, new and existing. I usually show this hatch pattern on new footing only. Is there a way to have the hatch pattern on new the footing and the existing footing not having a hatch pattern. The building departments require us to hatch the new footings to distinguish them from the existing footings. Thanks, Mike

I getting ready to start on a room addition project where the existing house is on a slope. From the front to back of the house there is a 48" drop in grade. Both the front and rear yards are fairly flat. The house has a raised foundation. When I built the foundation I set the footing depth at 24" deep. The lower level shows the correct footing depth. The upper footing shows the footing at around 6' deep. I want the footings at the top and bottom of the slope to be 24" deep. How do I do that in Chief ? Thank You, Mike House on Grade.plan

Thanks guys. I could not find the command to move the CAD mask forward or to the back. I just found it. Didn't it use to be in the DBX when you double clicked on the CAD mask ? Also did not know you could change the default settings for only a couple of dimensions in a dimension string. I thought buy changing the dimension default you would also changes all of the existing dimensions in the drawing as well.

I am trying to place a CAD mask over one dimension on the foundation line so I can type over it. The CAD mask does not cover up anything in the dimensions. Also the CAD mask is not covering regular text or arrows. It does cover up walls and footings. I have used these in the past to mask a dimension that was to long to fit. For example. a series of dimension such as 1'-2", 1'-8", 1'-10". They will be written over each other. Since CA will not allow me the change it to 14", 20", 22" I have put a mask over them and type over it with the dimension callouts I wanted. Does anyone know why the CAD mask is not covering up dimensions, text and arrows ? Thanks, Mike

I will try that. I come from an AutoCAD background. In AutoCAD you can change the spacing of these line by command called line type scaling. I did not know if CA had such a command. I see you upgraded to X11. How do you like it ? In your opinion is worth upgrading from X10 to X11 ? Thanks, Mike

Is there a way to change the line scaling ? I drawing a property line using the line with long line followed by 2 dashes followed by another long line. Looking at this line in the plan the lone line is very short and the dashes look like little dots. On one of the property lines that is 250' long there are over 100 of these line, 2 dashes, line combinations. So many that when printed you can not see any of the lashes. Is there away to spread these dashes out so there not so close together ? I tried using the line with the P/L imbedded in the line. Again there a hundreds of the P/L going around the property lines. I usually would only have one or two along each property line. Thanks, Mike

Slab foundation.

I am working on a project where we have a 36" high brick veneer on the exterior walls. I want the brick veneer to go down to grade. CA shows the brick stopping 5" above grade. Is there a way to lower the bottom of the brick veneer ? Thnanks

I'm working on a project where I am using a pony wall for the exterior walls. The bottom 3' will be a brick veneer with the top being siding. I want to add a brick cap on top of the brick veneer that will be perpendicular to the brick veneer. I'm sure CA has a video on this but I can not find it. How do I do this and how do I have the brick cap break at the doors ? Thanks, Mike

Thanks Mick for the advise. I will make those changes. Mike

Thank you Eric. That is exactly what I need. As I said in my post I spoke to tech. support this morning. His suggestion for this opening was to use the doorway tool to place the opening then create a custom layer for that opening and change the line color to white so it would not display. Mike

I found out what the issue is with Chief working very slowly. The new x10 has a problem with large rooms with a lot of walls. In my plan there is an existing 32" wide opening between the kitchen and dining room that the client wants to make 5' wide. Originally I used a doorway to do this. Doing this separated the kitchen from the dining room, living room and entry. I later decided to not use the doorway method since it shows a dashed line over the opening. I decided to use the break wall command and pull back one of the wall to create the 5' opening. As soon as I did this Chief got very slow. I spoke to tech. support and they told me that Chief has an issue with large rooms with a lot of walls jogging in and out. Large rectangular rooms do not have this issue. Hopefully they can fix this problem soon. Thanks for your help. Mike