joey_martin

I'm not sure if one way is right or wrong per say. I leave them in my plan view and don't seem to have any issues. To each his own I guess.

Not at all what you want to hear but....I used X6 on a pretty solid HP desktop when it came out. A year later X7 came out and WOULD NOT RUN!! I would have a model with 4 walls..nothing more, just 4 walls, move a wall and had time to go make a sandwich to wait for the lag. X6 worked fine, another year later X8 worked fine. I was never able to use X7. Chief and I tried for a week to figure out what was up, and nothing. Finally had to get back to work and just skipped X7 all together. I think there are some versions that for whatever reason do not play well with certain machines. X10 is a bit "laggy" on my current HP, but X11 and X12 are fine.

May I ask...why are you sending these to AutoCAD? Why not just send to layout?

Ahh...you are exporting from layout, that's a no-go....export from the model view.

Just because they are in your layer set, doesn't mean they show. Which one of these boxes to you have checked?

Most AutoCAD users, by default, work with a black background. Chief is exporting the layers as black lines. Have them either change the background, or go to layer settings and change the color of the missing lines.

With all due respect, you need to re-evaluate your business model. It looks, and reads, like you want more than a draftsman in the office if you are going to be picking his/her brain for design input to the point you would expect them to insure themselves AND work full time in YOUR office....that's a big fat nope. The person you are looking for would be making just a couple bucks an hour after paying for all that insurance to work in YOUR office.

I don't view it as a workaround. I design/model just like we build. I don't expect the concrete guys to deal with multiple "wall layers". Build the model just like it's built in the field and you have a lot less headaches.

I didn't even know that was a thing and all mine work just fine.

Chief takes care of it, no need for two widows.

Tip from me...for what it's worth...don't do finished basements like that. Leave the concrete stem walls as just that, the foundation wall, and add interior walls (I take the drywall off one side) as normal walls. This will allow you to complete the foundation plan and the finished basement floor plan as separate pages with their own set of notes and dims. I use a FOUNDATION PLAN anno/layer set, and my basic FLOOR PLAN anno/layer set to achieve this.

Look at the balcony too. Your floors are missing, and looks like the foundation either isn't built, or the foundation layer is turned off. Your lower level porch slab is floating as well. No foundation.

They are just little CAD boxes set to the callout layer.

You will need to place them.

I always try to leave my wall section live, easier to clean up if there is a change.

@CadArchitect this is my wall section page from a project. I use the back-clipped section camera, set it 12", and label accordingly. These are live section view sent directly to my layout page...no CAD from VIEW.

Some of those fixtures...like the FP, wont show in the wall camera. It has something to do with it talking a shot of the wall and not what's beyond it. I just leave it and move on.

Mine are just back-clipped section cuts labeled and sent to layout.

Draw it just like you would build it. Use a doorway and suppress the casing and the jamb and you are going to be left with an opening that looks just like that.

Wall details...like this?

With auto flooring on, go to the framing tools and look for the FLOOR/CEILING BEAM tool. Select that tool and drag your beam under the floor. The floor framing will adjust if you have it set correctly. Auto framing will not auto place beams, you have to place those manually.

Any chance you can adjust your business model to design/build? You have a little more control over both processes that way and perhaps relieve some of that stress by keeping more decision making under 1 roof.

Put the beam in and it will adjust.

Are you printing a vector view? Did you send to layout first?

turn on auto foundation