Line up foundation wall


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4 hours ago, MN_JohnH said:

Seems like there used to be a setting for lining up the surfaces of the foundation wall.
I know it is here but I am not finding it.

 

Gorgeous spring day here in MN.

 

My best diagnosis after a couple snifters of bourbon:

I think you have your wall def settings right but you don't have your foundation set to auto build so you have to manually move your foundation walls to get them to align with the stud walls after making any wall def changes, or set foundation back to auto build.

 

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12 hours ago, tundra_dweller said:

 

Gorgeous spring day here in MN.

 

My best diagnosis after a couple snifters of bourbon:

I think you have your wall def settings right but you don't have your foundation set to auto build so you have to manually move your foundation walls to get them to align with the stud walls after making any wall def changes, or set foundation back to auto build.

 

Thanks for the try, and yes it is beautiful this time of year in MN before the bugs come out, (and if nobody throws a spark out the car window).
On the plan I attached, I hadn't moved any walls or change any thing, i had just drawn 4 walls and built foundation and that is how it came out. I just tried setting the auto build foundation but that basically does what I already did, the same problem still exists. It seems to want to line up the exterior of my ICF wall to the exterior surface of the pony wall above. So I tried adding the stone veneer of the pony wall to the foundation wall but it still lines up the exterior of my ICF wall to the exterior surface of the pony wall above and now my stone veneer on the foundation wall protrudes past that pony wall surface above. I can meticulously go through and move all my foundation walls, (I did that once but upon rebuild I am here again). There has to be a setting that tells the walls which surfaces i want to align. Can't figure out what I am missing here.
I just watch a video on foundation wall and they don't say anything about this. Their walls just lined up perfectly automatically with the exterior surface ignoring their pony wall. I change d my foundation to 8" CMU and the results are the same still, the exterior of the CMU lines up with the exterior of the pony wall above.

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1 hour ago, MPDesign said:

Hi John,

The setting is under the wall type def, see attached.

I rebuilt foundation and placed a section camera to verify alignment. 

 

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Thanks, that looks like it should work and when I open you plan I can see that the walls are lined up the way I want but when I go back to my plan I see I have the settings exactly the same as yours and the walls don't line up.

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4 hours ago, MN_JohnH said:

Thanks, that looks like it should work and when I open you plan I can see that the walls are lined up the way I want but when I go back to my plan I see I have the settings exactly the same as yours and the walls don't line up.

OK I think I figured it out. It is the pony lower wall wall properties setting that I need to change from the brick veneer to the fir stud.
Once I change that everything seems to work fine. 
Seems like that was a setting in my template, I don't know what it didn't turn up as a problem before now.

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