Larry_Sweeney

Joey...............I had the pony wall aligned with the Main Layer Outside since both top and bottom sections have 2x6 studs for the main layer. The answer your suggestion though, I had tried all the alignment options, and they all performed the same way as the problem I'm having with this plan.

Because the plan file is so large I have it accessible through this Dropbox link. https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/9twicwwztnk3v6i4lnyw4/Crone-36-04242025.zip?rlkey=voi726umw83cfyak9qlhunmn6&dl=0 I don't this very often, so I how it's accessible and opens for you. In the first attachment below, I show the pony wall alignment before I tried making the top section siding layer thicker. I also show with the extra lines the alinement of the layers. The second attachment shows the pony wall stepping back one half the distance of the increase I made to the top section siding. In the final attachment I changed the thickness of the siding of the upper section of the pony wall back to its original thickness and increased the siding thickness of the lower section of the pony wall. When doing this the wall did not step back (which is how it's supposed to do) as shown in that attachment. When trying to trouble shoot this problem I copied the pony wall into a new plan, made a simple four-sided room and then changed the siding thicknesses as mentioned above. When doing this in the new plan, neither the top nor bottom section jumped back. Whatever is going on with the pony wall problem has to be caused by something in this plan. I'm at a loss. Also, the area I made the attachments is circled in red on the first floor. Could I "look past" this problem? ------------ Yes, I suppose, but I sure would like to know what's causing the problem. As always, I do appreciate your time and knowledge in attempting to solve this. Thank you

I have a 2x6 Pony wall with 1 1/4" thick clapboard siding on the lower 2/3 and 1/2" shingle siding on the top 1/3. After working on the design for some time I realized I needed to thicken the shingle siding from 1/2" to 7/8". When I changed the thickness of the shingles, I noticed my Pony wall moved back half the distance of the added thickness (added 3/8" moved back 3/16". In trying to trouble shoot this "problem" I increased the clapboard thickness by 1" to see what the results would be. The wall did not move when increasing the clapboard thickness, moved only when I increased to top shingle siding section of the Pony wall and that would move half the distance back of the total increased thickness I added to the siding. I have my 2x6 studs as the main layer and I have the pony wall to align with the outside of the main layer. In some way I'm hoping I'm just having a "senior moment" because I'm at a lost as to what is going on. Any advice would be much appreciated.

If I have, let's say, ten of the same exterior wall types around a house and in render view I want to not display the siding and sheeting on only one wall I have to have a different "display layer name" for the siding and sheeting for that pacific wall. Is that true or am I missing something? If true is there another work around other than what I've noted?

Michael......................Thank you for the "heads up". Here it is almost time for X17 and I completely missed this in X16. I'll have to do some reading with my "ONE" cup of coffee. Have a great day

I designed a one-story home with a walk-0ut basement. The walls in the basement that are in the walk-out area are pony walls with the upper section being 2X6 construction to the concrete floor and the lower (frost wall) being ICF walls. I lowered the ICF lower section of the pony walls to be 40" below the concrete floor. Up to this point everything is fine doing it this way. my problem occurs because on my foundation layout page, I like showing different render views of the foundation only, but how can I not show the upper 2x6 part of the pony walls? If I only want to show the foundation walls (masonry/ICF) along with the footers, do I have to approach my thinking differently by creating another level below my walkout level. That level would then have the ICF "frost wall" and I would change the pony wall to just a "normal 2X6 exterior wall". Is there a better way to approach my problem? As always, your time and advice are much appreciated. "IF" I have to change the lower level, which at present is the basement to something else and make the level below it the "basement", how does one go about that? It seems like a lot of cups of coffee.

Chris..............Yes...............Thank you. I just saw it in the schedule dbx. after staring at it for way too long. I was in the process of writing a "found" thread when I saw the one you wrote. Thanks again and Have a great day. ------------- I need a coffee.

When showing the 2D elevation of a window in the Window Schedule, is there a way (work around) to show the opening indicators? I hope I'm just missing something because, I think, this would be very useful quick reference when looking over the schedule.

"Not that difficult. Just add one to the Library with a new name; repeat, repeat, repeat..." Yes true, but what if you need a different size (length), shape or number of lights? Do you make a symbol for just one rope light bulb for the symbol. Then what, when installing it in the plan. Multiple "blubs" to make one string of a rope light. I'm sure I'm missing something in your solution, or at least not understanding the "whole picture" of what you're saying with your solution. Maybe I need my second cup of coffee this morning.

Gosh Joe, for once I hope you're wrong.

I have many different rope lights in my adjust lights dbx. (attachment). Because of this I would like to give each rope light its own name. I've changed the label name for each rope light, but the change does not show up in the "Adjust Lights" dbx. under the Name" column. I can't seem to find anywhere else or how to change the names of each individual rope light. For a light fixture from the library, I can just make the name change in the "3D" dbx. What am I missing for changing the name of a rope light's name?

TeaTime & Robert.......................Thank you for your time and knowledge. I cleaned up my terrain as well as I could with the advice you gave me. I also sent my problem into support (since I'm paying for SSA) to see what they would also recommend. Basically, without getting into a lot of detail, they gave me the same advice. With all that said, my results improved, but it still wasn't that great. I pulled the elevation lines back to different distances from the retaining wall, made sure my elevation region was not touching the retaining wall and also made sure I had no overlapping elevation lines. At this point I didn't know rather to reach for the bourbon or settle for another cup of coffee--------------Luck was with me; I got another coffee and retackled my dilemma. I finally got it looking the way I wanted it, but not exactly by what was suggested. Please, don't take this the wrong way, I really do appreciate your time and advice. It did help me a lot. What I ended up doing was not using the "Terrain Break" or a "Retaining wall. It may not have been accomplished "by the book" but the results are great. I left the wall as a foundation wall only. Ran the "Elevation Region" up to the wall on one side and elevation lines up to (and touching) the wall on the other side. I also had to add many more elevation lines [sorry TeaTime). I did clean up and reduced elevation lines elsewhere in the plan though. In the attachments of the plan views, I show the walls, elevation region (highlighted) and the elevation line data. The rendering attachments so the outcome for both wall. I think the only options I've read or was told about was either using a "Retaining wall" or "Terrain break" to accomplish my problem. If I'm wrong (and I probably am) that's my bad. I thought I should mentioned this outcome just in case someone else might search for a thread on this subject someday. Once again, thanks for your time and advice. Have a great day!

I'm looking for the look shown in the attachment. I thought there was a discussion on how to do this some time ago, but I'm unable to locate it. There must be a better way than using p-solids. If someone can steer me to that thread or has a solution I'd appreciate it. Thank you

I don't know why trying to build/modify elevations have to be so difficult in CA. I've spent the better part of a day trying to modify an elevation and I'm at my wits end. I've finally got most of the original elevation close to where I now want it, but my two retaining walls do not want to work correctly. In attachment #1 the highlighted area is an elevation region. the wall is marked as a foundation/retaining wall. My elevation data lines protrude into the retaining wall (as shown), but does not cross into the elevation region. In attachment #1B shows what I'm getting. The red line on the retaining wall is where I would like my ground line to run. Attachments #2 & #2B shows the other retaining wall with the same problem. I've tried every combination I can think of using terrain breaks, elevation regions, adjusting the elevation data line back from my walls and also carried them through the retaining wall onto my elevation region. I've gone through training videos, knowledge base and YouTube. I've seen many things on retaining walls and using them, but they all discuss retaining walls where the elevation lines are running parallel to the wall. I didn't find one that talked about retaining walls with the elevation lines are running perpendicular into the wall. I don't know what else to try. What am I missing? As always, any and all advice is always much appreciated. I'm adding the Dropbox link for this file I'm working on, but it's a very large file (why?---I don't know). It's a work in progress. Thank you https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/hjsocftliyk88va421vzf/PROPOSAL-20-01292025.plan?rlkey=l0lbo0092blin3285otbjt0er&dl=0

Robert............................Will do. I'll put the answer they give me on this thread when I get their results. Thanks again for your time and knowledge. Have a great day!