Pony Wall Dimension changes

[Beazley_Home]

I have been working in Chief for about 3 months. When I am working with the exterior walls - specifically changing the wall types - I am continually having to adjust them to keep the interior measurement I need. As you can see in the added images, when I change the wall type, it shifts the wall by 1.5625 inches into the room. 

 

1. Why does the change in wall type change the location of the wall and change the interior dimension?

2. Is there a way to prevent this from happening? 

 

[rlackore]

The General Wall Defaults>Resize About setting may help.

 

[DBCooper]

There are at least 4 settings that help to control this behavior.

 

1.  Go into your wall general defaults and look at your "resize about" setting.  This setting controls what happens when you change the wall type .

 

2.  Go into your wall dialog and look at your "algin pony wall" setting.  This controls how the upper and lower part of the pony wall are aligned to each other.

 

3.  Go into your wall type definitions and look at your "dimension to exterior layer" setting.  This controls where a dimension line will locate the wall.

 

4.  Go into your dimension defaults and see if your walls are set to go to surfaces or the wall dimension layer.  If you are set to surfaces, then it won't use the layer setting from #3 above.

 

Edited yesterday at 04:25 PM by DBCooper