joey_martin

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?

I started with v9.5 and have sent plans to Staple since then, never a problem. Make sure your PDF is 24"x36" paper (or whatever you are using) and to scale. Tell the print shop to NOT scale the page "to fit" it is already properly sized.

Alan the dims won't snap to the ref layer, but if you use a point marker like I use in my example, they WILL snap to lines and center points and then I dimension to that.

All great ideas....but go to the main floor and select the walls defining your stoop. Now open those walls and make them BEARING walls and you will see an option light up for a stem wall and footing appear. Select that and now you have foundation walls that you don't have to manually draw.

@dshall I use reference plans, I must have forgot to add the question mark to that... "Use the CAD FROM VIEW tool of your floor plan?" I don't recommend this method, was just trying to help him out.

Use the CAD FROM VIEW tool of your floor plan. Delete everything you don't want shown. Copy/Paste in Place on the foundation level. Now you have CAD objects you can dimension to.

The saved plan view I can't help you with, but I have a reference layer set up that has the interior walls and the plumbing fixtures turned on so that I can show them.

Colors don't have patterns.

I opened my interior wall. Selected the interior wall layer. Clicked on material. Opened the library.

Change it in the wall layer definitions

Your mouse....to click the "Get contents online" button and download a crapload of them.

But, even when I cut a hole, I just select the left over polyline, and make the line the same color as my background, and set the lineweight to 0. When you made the hole, did you tell it to DELETE THE ORIGINAL POLYLINE when it asked you to? You will need to let it delete that original so that you are only left with what you want.

I didn't cut a hole. Mine are 4 boxes that I quickly sized and joined together with the POLYLINE UNION tool. Maybe that's why you are getting a different result.