Larry_Sweeney Posted January 10 Share Posted January 10 I'm not sure if this is possible. I'm using a pony wall in part of my "walk-out foundation". The pony wall is made up of a 2x wall for the upper (above floor) and a block wall for the lower (below floor/walk-out grade). For showing my foundation block layout on level "0" ("Foundation plan view"), I want to show the lower part of the pony wall consisting of blocks, which I do by checking "Lower Wall" in Wall Specification dbx. along with the other foundation walls that are block only. By doing this everything (all the block foundation walls), I want, is shown on the "Foundation Plan view". I then had planned on making a plan view referred to as "Lower Level Plan view" which would be showing the entire layout of all rooms at floor level consisting of all the framed walls and the other block foundation walls that are not pony walls. In making this new plan view I changed the pony wall to show the Upper wall in the Wall Specification dbx. and by doing this I see exactly what I want in my "Lower Level Plan view". My issue arises when I now go back to my Foundation Plan view. My pony wall is now also showing the upper 2x wall instead of the lower block wall. I was thinking that using different plan views I could show either level of a pony wall and it would not "carry" to the other plan view. I guess this isn't the case-----Correct? I suppose I should not use a pony wall for the blocks below the floor and instead have those blocks on another level below. If this is the case, I'm going to have a huge amount work to do in making another level at this point in this design process. Do I have options? If I end up having to make another level and not using a pony wall is there a good way to show (and dimension) all the block walls used for the whole foundation on the same "Foundation Plan view" from the different levels? ---------- Is this where a Reference layer for the blocks below the walk-out grade should be used? How would you go about with measuring the "referenced blocks in the Foundation Plan view? Are there some good videos, that I should study, which shows the best way of "treating" this issue? I know this thread has been "extremely" wordy and I'm sorry about that. I'm just trying to make a "clear picture" of my problem. Thank you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solution Larry_Sweeney Posted January 10 Author Solution Share Posted January 10 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". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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