Larry_Sweeney

Chris................Thank you for the "Head's Up" solution. Very much appreciated

Is there a way to show the upper section of a pony wall in one plan view and in another plan view show the bottom section of the same wall without the upper section changing in the first plan view?

In troubleshooting, I shut down the computer and restarted it and now "things" with my mouse seems to be working correctly. I just got a new computer setup a couple of days ago and I'm wondering if that could be "some" of the issues I'm having?

I opened X16 this morning and my mouse wheel "zoom speed" has really changed. It was working correctly when I shut it off yesterday. Before I held my ctrl button down and when moving my mouse wheel, my zoom would move my plan in or out very quickly. Now, since opening up the plan this morning, the zoom hardly moves my plan in or out (very small increments) when holding the ctrl button down while moving the mouse wheel. Is there a setting somewhere that needs to be reset in the program or is this a problem with my "CadMouse Pro"?

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?