Larry_Sweeney

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 found out what I was doing wrong by watching "Walkout Foundation Plan setup" by Design Build Solutions, LLC on YouTube. I went into "Edit Plan view" and changed the dbx, to "Lower Wall" which changed the pony wall default setting for the Pony wall in the "Foundation Plan View". My problem as stated in the above thread was occurring because I was trying to change the wall setting in the actual plan view and it had the default setting "Upper wall with Lower wall outline".

Thanks to all for your responses. All where helpful in understanding "my" problem and not CA's.  Have a great day.

Eric & Mark.......................Thank you. Greatly appreciated for taking the time. Yes Eric, the difference in the door offset bugs me also. Have a great weekend!

Eric........................I think I got it! Thank you for you time and knowledge. Have a great day.

This is a work around that I use from time to time. I'll make a short line at the center of each window and color it white (background color) before I mull the windows. Then I manually adjust my dimension to the center of each window. Another area to consider is when you are doing the window schedule there will be more items to "fudge".

After doing some more searching I found the answer.
 
This is the correct answer to the problem. It's from Kenoeightspot (Bill Page)............Click on the "Spray can Icon" then check the "Use default" box, then click on the top and bottom walls and see if this changes your walls back to the default wall types. Thank you Bill.

The easiest solution to your problem is to post the plan.

Curt...Sorry. You were giving me all the correct info. I finally found it.  I was having a "brain fart" moment or too much coffee. Many thanks. Have a great day.

I make a rectangle p-line and use a solid white fill. I then "cover" the area I don't want to see. Sometimes, depending on the situation I make the lines of the rectangle p-line white also. I usually do this before I send it to layout, but sometimes I do it in layout. It just depends on what works best under what condition. I like doing it this way rather than changing the foundation wall to a dashed line. The problem here is that all the foundation lines are changed to dash ----- above and below ground.