Build Foundation Glitch

[Curt_Morgan]

Hello!  Has anyone encountered this issue:

I have an interior elevator room in a bottom story garage that needs footers below it, as well as the garage walls themselves.  I receive a weird result using the Build Foundation tool in the area where the elevator room and garage wall are closest because the elevator wall is slightly out of line with the garage wall.  It leaves a chunk missing in the footers rather than combining the garage wall footer and elevator room footer correctly.  It performs fine in 3D if I draw the lines manually and convert to slab w/ footer, but then I have overlapping CAD lines rather than the footers combining correctly in 2D as well.

 

The problem fixes itself if I move the left most elevator room wall in line with the garage wall below it.  Unfortunately, this elevator room cannot be moved and the software should be able to handle this scenario fine, in any case.

 

I have attached the file and a screenshot showing the issue.  I have also attached a screenshot of the issue with doing it manually.

 

Thanks for any help that can be provided.  I will most likely just draw the foundation in 2D for this plan and forget the 3D foundation for now so I can move on with the project and hopefully a resolution for this issue can be found for future projects.

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Thanks!

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[tundra_dweller]

This is one of those common instances where it would be really nice if we could take over control of footings (and wall intersections in general) similar to auto-built then manually adjusted roof planes. Sometimes the edit wall layer intersection tool doesn't get the job done, then you have to resort to CAD mask polylines or manual slabs/solids with different line style and fill properties to get the job done for 2D presentation. Which is probably what I would do in this situation, a combination of slabs and CAD lines/CAD masks, depending on what you need for 2D & 3D presentation. Do not overlook the power of the white (or whatever color works for your situation) line with a higher line weight value than the line you're covering. Not ideal but it works.

[Alaskan_Son]

Yeah, some of these are a real pain.  I honestly can't blame Chief for this one.  Its super difficult to know how and where these walls should join up.  Even trying to manually decide how to do so is nearly impossible.  Every single wall layer intersection option creates a problem somewhere and at least one of them is pretty much impossible...

 

 

There are different variations within each as to how wall layers could potentially be joined, but they all have problems, so, I would probably do something like this...

 

I would use a short section of Room Divider wall to control where that break takes place, and I would place a CAD polyline to hide the resulting extra line..

 

Turn the special  Room Divider Layer off, and set the polyline to Background Color and you're off to the races....

 

 

 

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