joey_martin

@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.

Are any of the rafters designed to be exposed rafter tails? Just because you have soffitt checked doesn't mean its there. What are your settings?

You're going to have to show us what you mean. I use this tool a ton and there are no defaults that I need to change. Now, having said that...if you don't use it a lot, you may notice that when you pull a string it will find all sorts of things, you need to find the center of the object you are tying to dimension and then snap from there.

I stopped reading after that....

Amen....stop banging your head against the wall or trying to make this program like the program you left.

If you use walls inside the basement walls, like we would to finish a basement, there seems to be a bug that will find a "room" between the 2"x wall the and the basement wall. Annoying as hell!! Select the interior 2"x wall and mark as no room definition and see if that extra "room" goes away.

You need to "print" to PDF and email the PDF to them.

Basement with finished area?