ICF brick ledges

[NorthBayChief]

Does chief architect have ICF brick ledges? or how else are we suppose to illustrate such technical  entities?

[glennw]

What is so different about an ICF brick ledge?

[mtldesigns]

I've never seen one specifically.  But I would just do a molding and lay it against the existing exterior foam, to get that ledge.  

 

Use this method, just model a molding p-line

https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00070/adding-a-belly-band-to-a-structure.html

[mtldesigns]

The ICF walls have a built in brick ledge

[Kbird1]

I think I would use a 18" high Pony Wall and Edit the Cross Sections if needed, though Molding Line works great too depending on the circumstances.

 

M.

 

[NorthBayChief]

Thank you so much for the answer. I was hoping it wouldn't be that much work. Surprised they would put ICF in their foundation standards, but only do half a job.

[rlackore]

A wall cap will work if you use a pony wall with the same wall type above and below:

 

[robdyck]

2 hours ago, NorthBayChief said:

Thank you so much for the answer. I was hoping it wouldn't be that much work. Surprised they would put ICF in their foundation standards, but only do half a job.

I'm not sure I'd call the omission of something as rare as an ICF brick ledge a problem. I've designed and built an awful lot of ICF structures using every brand and size and form profile imaginable and it is much easier and simpler to model a brick ledge form using a molding polyline than it would be through any configuration of dialog boxes. There simply are too many types and they are rarely used. If you use them in your drafting projects regularly, then you should have library of items ready to help you model this condition.

It should take about 2-3 minutes to have that modeled accurately (the first time), using one of a variety of methods. After that, it should (or at least could) be almost automatic.