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A simple rectangle, or with a cap and base? Either way, you can do this quite easily using the polyline solid tools. Start to drag out a polyline solid, before letting go of the mouse, hit tab, enter your 360 x 250 dimensions. Then open the object, and specify its height, elevation relative to floor, layer, and material.

On the plans, I call for 2x4's embedded flatwise @ 24" o.c. to the exterior face of the concrete foundation wall, which provides a simple attachment point allowing the wall sheathing to be extended down. But what to do when (not if) the foundation crew says 'forget that noise' and doesn't bother to follow the plan? Powder Actuated Fasteners to fasten the 3/8" OSB to the foundation wall! That kinda works to staple stucco wire onto (the staples hit the concrete and mash up into the OSB), but for fiber cement siding??? And yes, that's how it often goes around here.

It would be pretty cool to bring GOOGLE MEET to this forum, with screen sharing!

Well, shoot...egg on my face! It was your emoji that got me...

it was a joke

Good problem to have! Keep digging!

Okay. I've got the fix...no 12" jogs when using brick. Bricklayers don't like those anyway!

Chief and it's walls...sigh! Normal: 12" away is too close:

That did not work for me.

There's no question, this is a crappy issue. Here's a re-creation: interior wall aligned: interior wall moved 1" to the left: connections adjusted:

If / when you have time, I wouldn't mind seeing some examples. I'm currently using an elevation marker in plan view, and in elevation view. The elevation view is simpler as I don't need to type in or reference the data... the %height% macro does this. I'd certainly consider using a note type for this if I could simplify the plan view referencing of those elevations.

FWIW, they can be copied from older plans and they still work in X12. I'm curious, what does everyone else do to relay height information of footings, piles, or other items? Here's an example...the pink text is using a special use arrow on a layer that does not appear on the printed plans, but I use it for quick reference.

I'm attempting (yes, attempting) to show in plan view all the footing elevations of a ridiculous stepped foundation. In the past, I used a special use arrow to report that information, but woe is me, I can't find them and I'm simply not smart enough to type all that crap in manually without making at least 1 mistake.

Where'd the special use arrows go? X12...

I've found that they work fine in a straight, simple run...in other words, no landings, no corners. But they're just awful when those mentioned conditions exist. The wall caps go wonky, the framing is weird. It can't be just me, right? I honestly don't understand why we can't have true polyline control of a wall shape, just like a carpenter can.

Believe me, you'll fight those half walls forever. IMO they are garbage. If you care about what they look like in 3d, forget those half walls and replace them with: p-solids OR normal walls shaped by adjusting the wall polylin

And you're just gonna leave us hanging with that teaser?! Would you be able to post a screenshot example?

You can do that, you just gotta think out of the box. Use more than one elevation type sent to layout. Copy you layer set for the elevation view and turn off the railing. Crop the layout boxes as desired and add CAD break lines in layout. Drawing Order tools to place the cropped view on top.

I think this is a bug and should be reported to Chief. You can't even add a zero thickness layer like housewrap to the exterior without having the framing jump out of place.

Very Clever! Although this whole topic feels buggy to me. You can add layers to the inside without the framing jumping, but not to the outside? Something ain't right.

Well that seems messed up but apparently the secret sauce for a flush eave needs to be spread on at least 2 layers thick to be sweet and tasty! I added a 2nd exterior layer (housewrap / 0 thickness) and that did the trick. I was working on another plan and I was thinking about trying the same thing...adding a sheathing layer. I bet that weird wall assembly must have had you wondering...It's an existing building that has the 2nd floor balloon framed against a 15' tall fir wall. So the plan is to add a knee wall on top of the existing fir wall and, for vertical reinforcement of the hinge connection, a new framed wall inside of that at 97 1/8" tall. All engineer verified, of course.

Thanks for taking a stab at it! I don't think I can say I've ever had these generate reliably. Often, I've used a triangle p-solid drawn in elevation view, because it blends with the wall surface material and doesn't generate any BS lines to remove in layout. And then another solid for the soffit.

Not for me either, but that's because I don't know how to use sketchup very well at all. I'd need another minute to Joey's original 2 minutes to add the reveals and any joints / connections.

And the reason is shows in some views as opposed to others is controlled by layer settings for each view (Display Options). For elevation views, you might want to setup a layer set that does not show framing. Then save and name those views.

24" & 24". That matches with what's been used on most of the building. There are a few sections with shorter overhangs, like shed dormers. The flush eaves wouldn't work on those either. I got a flush eave on one side, and a boxed eave on the other so I just turned off boxed eaves for those roof planes.