joey_martin

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

You're looking in the wrong defaults. Open the foundation wall and set the dimensions to the correct wall layer.

Do you have the soil bearing capacity? What type of structure is this for? Are there interior walls? Too many questions. Also...Knowing what the difference between detail "B" and "B1" is would help. They are both exterior footing details, but there must be something different there.

Looks like a slab on grade with thickened grade beams. As for tables...not sure what you are asking. Go to foundation defaults and select MONOLITHIC SLAB foundation option and that will get you started. Add the grade beams (thickened areas) as needed.

Turn line weights on for the layout.

As someone that does almost only basements....that option is a no go. Too much extra work to have another floor to deal with. Basement is foundation, finished basements are easily taken care of with layer/anno sets.

The first thing I notice is that all your check marks are missing. When you set up the FOUNDATION make sure everything is as you want it so that you dont run into these messes, and so that you you can more easily detail these areas when that time comes. All the little wrenches need to have red check marks. For now....subtract 4" from the stem wall height.

Just use invisible walls to define the "room" as a porch. Select the invisible walls and open the DBX, you will see under STRUCTURE an option to add a foundation wall & footing to those walls. Now, even if the walls move, the foundation will follow them.

I'm completely lost as to what you are trying to achieve. If you're talking about getting objects to auto locate the center when dimensioning, that is different than the centerline tool in my opinion. I'll someone else handle it.