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lettuce see what happens...these are auto connections after the foam has been moved out of the main layer.

Ha! Good one! I'll probably try that next. The reason they're part of the main layer...my foundation plan shows 'main layer only' so in plan view, I don't want to see stucco parging or drywall but I do want to see the ICF...and it's logical. ICF is unquestionably the "main layer' right? But I gotta play with the hand I'm dealt...I can turn my drywall line invisible so it doesn't show.

Take a look at this insane mess of a wall connection! Curses what a waste of time dealing with this crap! It's an ICF grade beam connecting to an existing concrete basement wall. I want the concrete layers to align at the exterior...no overlap of materials as the new foundation will simply butt up against the old foundation...but Chief has other plans apparently. Plan View: 3D (all other views): I can change things by messing around with the wall connection tool...I just can't change things to be correct. How can something so simple be made so hard?? I'm inlcuding the ICF wall type if anyone wants to attempt a connection fix that works for all views! ICF 8.calibz

The future will get here someday Alan.

I don't expect Chief to dimension anything the way I'd like. I use a combination of auto and manual dimensions and I edit them all to ensure they are picking up what I want. And I agree with Mick, if the printed paper on site is clear and to scale, any decent worker would notice the discrepancy and note a correction on their copy of the plan. I also understand dealing with people who are stuck in their ways and prefer to work harder instead of smarter. It may take several sales pitches to your boss or repeat client to show them how you could improve things for them and utilize the software you've chosen to avoid errors and save time.

You've got a heck of a lot of manually placed text that could be automated and cleaned up. It'd save you many, many, many hours on each plan. If you're interested in optimizing some of these things, you could reach out to one of the many experts on this forum to help you out. Did I mention it could save you a lot of time?! Certain dimension types, certain layer sets, and manually typed text all lead to increased probability of mistakes. Improved methods will not only save time, but lower the probability of errors occurring.

Original: reverse wall layers:

No offense of course, but the first mistake you are making is using that dimension type (Interior Dimension). They do have a tendency to snap to the default of a wall when things get moved or changed. In your case, the wall layers got reversed. Rather I'd suggest developing the habit of using the "Manual Dimension" tool. I ALWAYS and ONLY dimension to the front of interior walls and the left side of interior walls. Stairwells get dimensioned to the framing line of the actual opening. The next suggestion is to clean up and review your dimensions using a final layer set that has the wall layers turned off. Also, turn off all casings. Dimensioning will become much cleaner and easier to snap to the main layers. Just because those layers are on out-of-the-box, doesn't mean we should keep them on all the time!

@GeneDavis First thing I'd do is change the sunlight to 1500. That should pretty much take care of it.

It would appear as though you haven't told that room to have a roof over it. Does that make sense?

If that concrete foundation that you are highlighting is auto-built, that seems pretty good to me. All that would be required is a capped railing wall on the interior of the foundation in order to provide a framed, insulated, and finished wall that covers the foundation. While it's not 'pretty' it seems that's what's needed. I'd suggest that Chief could allow a few things: a 'pony' wall should be able to be made up vertically of more than just 2 wall types all moldings should come with offset capabilities (in this case allowing a capped railing wall to cover the foundation with the cap)

A detail drawing and specification or used in the model, for visuals? It's just a square...seems all you need to know is the dimension? There's lots of squares available for moldings, just type 'square' in the library browser and filter by type to moldings. Once you've made your selection, you can rename and resize.

Did you build any floor framing?

For sure. I used the OP's posted plan and I was simply showing that the elevations could be adjusted as requested. Dan didn't ask for anything regarding construction methods...(shrug)

I liked Mark's approach, but I thought I'd see if if inverting the curtain wall approach would work well. I used a wall type that was aluminum, adjusted my windows to match glazing only, and used cad reference lines to develop equal spacing representing the aluminum framing. This way the windows will show up in a glazing schedule. I also used framing posts set to be steel columns laid out on a grid.

It's helpful to enter some of those elvations you'd like , then close the dbx to see what Chief actually does with it. In this case, change the SWT height and garage floor height on FLOOR 1, then go to floor 0 to change the stem wall height. You should have no issue... TFE from itch4ADJ.plan

and / or "Foundation Defaults" where you can specify the chamfer measurements of the footing.

For the curtain wall, I'd probably start by using a wall type defined with 1 layer representing the aluminum framing. Then, windows can be placed. You'll need to define a window type that works within the aluminum framing, and I'd be using cad reference lines in elevation / section view (as well as plan view) as a guide for placing and sizing the windows.

no offense taken...just wanted to make sure you knew that help on this forum is not guaranteed, but may be available only as people have time.

And you may want to add the "swing side" column to your schedule.

It'd help if that wall was part of a room, which would create an inside and an outside.

Did you try using a ceiling plane for each side of the room? It looks like that should work simply enough. Obviously just drag the sloped ceiling plane to the interior of the cheek walls.

I didn't suggest any method for that and there's no 'we' on this project. But you could make a schedule of windows or a custom schedule using notes, as one example.

You can also try using a ceiling plane in that room. If the roof is built with rafters, just delete the structure layers from you ceiling plane, making it drywall only.