joey_martin

Without the plan impossible to tell whats going on there...

Did you remember to hit the AUTO DETAIL button to get the fills to show?

Nope...have to place them manually with roof tools to get that. Unless X7 has changed...I havent jumped into X7 fully yet.

First thing I tell people that take my training class is to stop fighting the software. Those little hiccups happen from time to time during the design process, just keep going. The will either correct themselves, or you will have a little cleanup to do at the end. I view it as a punchlist of cleanup items. You will be surprised at how many time time these issues fix themselves, so don't interrupt your work flow, just keep designing and come back to them during a punchlist break.

My room dims are macros and not auto generated. I use macros for greater control over when and where they show. I also don't generally show dims in small rooms either.

All 4", maybe some 5" in there somewhere but I keep everything pretty uniform.

Also remember rules of dimensioning. Don't dimension interior walls that are attached to and dimensioned in an exterior string. I see many plans sent to me for clean-up that have dozens of repeated dimensions all over the page. I also use 4" for general text, 5/6 for callouts, 7 bold for room labels.

You can check out AIBD.org for some more info. Great group of people, and plenty of knowledge to help you.

I rarely do remodel/addition work, but I am working on a T.I. for a new restaurant and I am using 2 plan files.

Because notice the ceiling and floor areas in the structure tab have a FINISH area to specify the color. If you added a thin paint layer to the walls, it would show as well I think. I always remove them so that my schedule only displays the drywall size I am using.

See if this helps. Click on the CEILING FINISH tab...

You can place invisible walls in that corner and specify no ceiling in the large space, but leave the ceiling in the area bordered by the invisible walls. It will create "attic walls" up there, but simply change them to railings.

Go to the structure tab for the floor, look under CEILING STRUCTURE and you will notice a thin layer of paint for the ceiling structure...delete that and you are good to go.

Not sure if this helps, but when I show both upper and lower level roof planes on one plan, I hatch fill the upper planes and notes that the "hatched areas are resting on the second floor plates"

Use a railing or half wall, one side is specified as open to below, the other side is specified as a hall, or whatever you need for it to be.

Or create a custom schedule using the RICH TEXT feature and turn on the table lines.

Ross is his name. Find him here...https://chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com/index.php?/user/58-rosco2017/

Even simpler....paste a new dim over any existing dims. If this is a complete set of plans, and the change was last minute, paste and go.

Graham that's what I'm talking about. Mine is checked to automatically fill that line in for me. I can't find where I set it though.

Mine is (X6) is checked AUTO. I either did that in my template plan, it's changed in X7, which I haven't installed yet, or we are all missing the setting somewhere.

Perry that blanket statement can be confusing. I can count on one hand how many basements in the 10 + years I have placed on level 1. Why is your method better than mine? We don't build the same way here, and my guess is Mass is closer to my construction techniques than yours. I would tell him....hands down...why my method is better than yours.

https://chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com/index.php?/topic/4611-hello-agan-and-x7-basement-wall-question/ See post #25 I have an ANNO SET with associated LAYER SETS for basement floor plan, and for foundation plan. Same level, different views in layout.

It depends. If we are just talking about a walkout, then I would leave it all on level 0, if it were a "terrace level" and there were going to be additional structures like in the examples above, then that would be level 1 and the stem walls and footings on level 0.

Then in that example you are correct. I do homes in one community here in Indiana on a very nice golf course...many walkout lots. In your example, we call those floors the terrace level or ground level, which I would put on level 1 even though the front part of that structure may very well be poured concrete wall. Only we would have pool houses on mono slabs located on the terrace level, or maybe a small secondary garage. I think we both win in these cases.

they are auto right now. If a change is made to the plan the foundation will keep up. Once you start changing any specifics that auto features will turn off. Foundations.plan