Michael_Gia Posted July 19, 2025 Share Posted July 19, 2025 Hey, no matter what I set my basement ceiling height or floor level or stemwall height, my stemwall won't budge? Are we not able to affect floor 0 anymore? What am I missing? Cross section: I was hoping the 4'-6" would change to 24" or something close to that? Stemwall doesn't budge in the cross section view no matter how I change ceiling heights, of stemwall height in either floor 1 or 0. Am I missing something obvious, like a check box or do I need to cast a spell and tap my heels 3 times? Either a bug or I suddenly forgot how to change stemwall heights? Floor 1 room dialogue box: Floor 0 room dialogue box: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MPDesign Posted July 19, 2025 Share Posted July 19, 2025 Shot in the dark, did you rebuild the foundation after setting to 24"? Is the room set to unspecified or a room name? Are the defaults for foundation set to your desired settings? Just some thoughts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael_Gia Posted July 19, 2025 Author Share Posted July 19, 2025 34 minutes ago, MPDesign said: did you rebuild the foundation after setting to 24"? What does rebuild foundation mean? I don't use auto rebuild. It should adjust when I adjust the floor or stemwall height? I tried changing the room names from unfinished to living room, but no luck. Thanks for chiming in so quick. I'm cramming to get something out this weekend before I leave on vacation. Looks like I'll be bringing my laptop with me.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JiAngelo Posted July 19, 2025 Share Posted July 19, 2025 Is there more than one room above? And if so are you opening the room below to change the stem wall height? I believe you can't change the stemwall height from a room above's dbx due to the presence of multiple rooms. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DRAWZILLA Posted July 19, 2025 Share Posted July 19, 2025 You need to turn on auto foundation rebuild to change it or delete your foundation and do it manually. Auto is much faster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SHCanada2 Posted July 19, 2025 Share Posted July 19, 2025 i dont use auto build foundation as it then deletes everything in the basement, and I adjust stemwalls frequently to match the basement foundation height Adding +24 to stemwall in floor 0 defaults works on my template plan(which has a basement):. so not sure what the issue is, unfortunately, maybe post the plan. My guess it has something to do with the "no change" that shows for the ceiling (multiple rooms with different heights as John indicated) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael_Gia Posted July 19, 2025 Author Share Posted July 19, 2025 12 minutes ago, SHCanada2 said: so not sure what the issue is, You made me go back and check one more thing... I had accidentally checked the box for "Floor supplied by the foundation room below", in my frantic messing around. Open the DBX, close the DBX, open the DBX, close the DBX. Wish we could affect these parameters and see the changes live rather than the idealized representation in the Dialogue box side window. My fault, but Chief has a pretty arcane way of working this stuff out. my apologies. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kylejmarsh Posted July 21, 2025 Share Posted July 21, 2025 On 7/19/2025 at 12:47 PM, Michael_Gia said: Open the DBX, close the DBX, open the DBX, close the DBX. Yes I don't think we'll ever get away from opening DBX and closing DBX and opening and closing.... I wonder if there is any group of software users who open and close more dialogue boxes than us Chief users? Bet we're ahead by a lot because nobody does it like that anymore... I set up a hotkey for my 'f' key to open the dialogue box. I figured it was the easiest keypress (left hand home row index finger doesn't get much easier than that) and a button on my mouse for 'enter' so at least I can open and close them efficiently... Haven't made the jump to 17 yet but was hoping for better controls over basement stemwall heights. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DefinedDesign Posted yesterday at 09:36 PM Share Posted yesterday at 09:36 PM On 7/19/2025 at 12:47 PM, Michael_Gia said: You made me go back and check one more thing... I had accidentally checked the box for "Floor supplied by the foundation room below", in my frantic messing around. Open the DBX, close the DBX, open the DBX, close the DBX. Wish we could affect these parameters and see the changes live rather than the idealized representation in the Dialogue box side window. My fault, but Chief has a pretty arcane way of working this stuff out. my apologies. I don’t understand why this behavior is not clearly communicated in the X17 Dialog Help. This type of setting fundamentally overrides user control, yet the interface does not make that relationship obvious. As a result, I spend hours troubleshooting what appears to be a malfunction, when in reality the software is behaving as designed. Clearer communication within the dialog or help documentation about when and how control is overridden would significantly reduce confusion and lost time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renerabbitt Posted yesterday at 10:16 PM Share Posted yesterday at 10:16 PM 39 minutes ago, DefinedDesign said: I don’t understand why this behavior is not clearly communicated in the X17 Dialog Help. I think it is, the help menu is live and this is what it shows in X17: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnny Posted 23 hours ago Share Posted 23 hours ago On 7/21/2025 at 2:22 PM, kylejmarsh said: Yes I don't think we'll ever get away from opening DBX and closing DBX and opening and closing.... I wonder if there is any group of software users who open and close more dialogue boxes than us Chief users? Bet we're ahead by a lot because nobody does it like that anymore... Very true statement Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DefinedDesign Posted 8 hours ago Share Posted 8 hours ago 15 hours ago, Renerabbitt said: I think it is, I’ll be honest, I read that Help text several times and it just didn’t click for me. In my head I was trying to fix wall behavior in the Room dialog, so I wasn’t connecting that setting to what I was seeing. Since the description focuses on the floor platform, it didn’t lead me to think it would affect the walls or that unchecking it would fix the issue. I didn’t realize that with that option checked, the floor and related foundation pieces are being taken from the room below, so changes I was making in this room weren’t having any effect. That’s where I got tripped up. Thanks for pointing this out, now if I can remember it going forward Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SHCanada2 Posted 5 hours ago Share Posted 5 hours ago (edited) 2 hours ago, DefinedDesign said: Thanks for pointing this out, now if I can remember it going forward ironically I just got tripped up by this yesterday, I have to remember, which I dont, that in order to make the stem wall rise above the floor in the attached garage, (And for the Stem wall top to to to actually show up as editable in the dialog) I need to check the room supplies floor for room above. Ironically I clicked on the help, hoping it would tell me how to get this to show up in the dialog, but I did not see it. Of course I hear people saying, just use a pony wall. Sure but that is more complicated...and I was almost to that point when I went back to check an old plan and did the old "compare the differences" excercise Edited 5 hours ago by SHCanada2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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