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In the attached plan the first floor kitchen pantry has double doors. When I show a wall elevation, it indicates the floor molding does not end at the edge of the door frame like it should. The molding does end where it should on single doors (look at elevation of the door from kitchen into the garage for example).

I do not see any settings I can change for this.

block diagram 4A3a floorplan with framing.plan

OMG!

I cannot believe it was that simple. T tried every setting I could think of in display options. Except apparently that one.

Thank you Thank you.

In the attached plan, all the floors and ceilings have disappeared, replaced by the subfloor or the roof sheathing. If I turn on the framing members in a camera view, the framing members become visible for the ceiling.

This is essentially the same file I uploaded recently with the wall oddity problem. The only changes I made were to arrange some landscaping, and to add stairs to the front entry with the ramp rearranged. In the wall oddity problem, The solution was to move a roof plane edge. I never did any manual roof layouts, always trusting that to the software. Yet, this roof edge was causing a wall to lose its outside material.

block diagram 4A3a floorplan with framing.plan

You two are GENIOUSES!

But I NEVER manually changed the roof plane, so IDK how this got started.

Thanks for this fix!

In the attached floorplan, a second floor wall will not show the exterior wall material.

I have tried using the eyedropper and repainting the surface. I have tried changing the material. I have tried moving the wall in and out. I have deleted the wall and drew it back in. Nothing works. It just refuses to accept the wall material.

block diagram 4A3a floorplan with landscaping.plan

This is the first time I have used layout sheets in a drawing so please be kind.

I opened the .plan file and looked at the first floor of the drawing. Clicked "File Send To Layout" and after setting the scale I saw the page. I edited the Title Block info and all was good. So I saved it.

Now, I wish to add another identical sheet to the layout, this one showing the second floor of the building. Do I need to open a new layout again, or is there a way to add a second (and third, fourth, etc)?

Nicely done LawB10!

So Elovia, would you review my plan to be sure it meets structural integrity requirements?

LOL.   JK.

I have determined that the max span I need for part of my building without support is 30' This requires 14" wood I beams placed 12" o.c.

I just looked at the framing drawing for it and see that the first floor has all the joists running from foundation wall to foundation wall with no apparent support shown.

If I upgrade to CAx8, will this be done automatically, or do I need to manually add posts and support beams beneath the joists?

I need to change the floor defaults to add a layer of gypcrete for radiant floor heat. I opened the floor structure defaults dbx, but cannot figure out how to add layers.

 

One more question. Looking at a camera view from the second floor toward the entry closet on first floor, I see no ceiling structure, even though I specified "ceiling above". What happened to the ceiling that is supposed to be there?

 

 

It's because of the Open Below space above. Place a room divider or invisible wall on the second floor to create a room over the closet. That will get you a floor structure you can modify to become the ceiling structure of the closet below.

 

I sometimes delete the floor structure in an open below room. Not sure if this would help.

 

Invisible wall helped, but I had to change the room type for the "invisible room" to a closet (or anything besides garage or open space).

I would bet it is a lighting issue. Click each of the light fixtures and verify that  they are turned on in the rendered view, and that they are of sufficient brightness. Notice in the first pict the light above the desk appears to be on, but in the other views it does not.

Which takes precedence? In the room spec dbx the ceiling structure is set to 9.5" because I want the floor above to be supported by 2x10s. But in the room spec dbx for the room above it I have the floor structure set to 9.5 also.

It appears that they are not additive (otherwise there would be 19" between ceiling below and floor above.

However, I have a problem with the attached plan. If I open the first floor room dbxs for various rooms I get 3 different values for "Absolute elevations floor above".

1. If there is no room above (i.e. the left and right suites) the value is 118 5/8", but for rooms with another room above the value is 119 3/8.

All other parameters are exactly the same.

Where did this extra 3/4" come from? And why?

2. Then there is the Entry and entry closet, where there is no room above, just open space. The "Absolute elevations floor above" value for these two rooms is 111 1/2".

I understand that where there is no room above there is no need for 2x10 ceiling joists. But IMO it makes framing much simpler to keep everything the same size, and 2x6s do not make good floor support.

OK, I think I just answered my own question about #1 above, but I am going to leave this all here for confirmation. Is it the subfloor, which is 3/4" and obviously would not be present in an attic space?

However, this still leaves me wondering about #2. Why are the ceiling and floor heights so radically different from #1? And is this the cause for the anomaly in the entry, where the front wall of the left wing seems to pass thru the entry drywall, just about the closet ceiling height?

One more question. Looking at a camera view from the second floor toward the entry closet on first floor, I see no ceiling structure, even though I specified "ceiling above". What happened to the ceiling that is supposed to be there?

block diagram 4A3a floorplan with landscaping.plan

That's unfortunate, because it, in my opinion, needs lots of work.

 

It looks like this is being built in Alaska. Suggest you rethink the entire plan considering snow and darkness, the apartment above, bathrooms in the resident rooms -- they need doors that open out, for example. Bedroom windows need to meet egress requirements. 

 

The exterior looks more like an office building than a home. Maybe something that looks less institutional? 

 

How about stairs to the apartment in the rear instead of front, and a private entrance for access to the upstairs.

 

Change Suite 4 so there are windows in the living area.

 

And so on.

Eric, are you psychic? How on earth did you guess that it was being designed for AK? Maybe from the notes pasted on the drawing? LOL

I am not a certified architect either, but I have had some education in the field before the cost of that education became more than I could bear and I had to switch careers. I have made it clear to the clients that I am not certified and that they would have to take the plans to an architect to get them to check them before going for a building permit, etc.

Good catch on the resident room bathrooms. I guess for wheelchair access they should open out.

I agree about the exterior look. IDK what I can do to change that. Client specified the sq ft per unit, and I was trying to provide equal access to the common room. My first draft of it actually impressed them.

One thing they asked for was to avoid placing any of the managers suite (upstairs) above the units, especially above the bedroom area. I had that accomplished until I saw the roof valley dumping snow and rain right up against the side wall of second floor.

I made a change last night by dragging the right side wall of second floor fam room/stairwell further to the right. It now rests about halfway across the living rooms of suites 4 & 5. That remedied the roof issue, but it does add more height and floor space, which equates to higher construction cost.

There is a lot limitation also. Size is 130 x 140 on a corner. 10' setbacks by local code.

I will change the stair design around to see how that fits in.

I appreciate the feedback.

In the attached floorplan I have everything just the way I want it. But I just noticed that there is a roof problem I did not expect.

As you look at the front entry, to the right of it is a wing that is only one story high, and the way the roof lays, there is an area where the roof traps rain/snow against the second story wall (next to the second floor family room).

I just do not know how to solve this. For reasons to lengthy to explain herein the floorplan needs to remain as it is. What needs to change is the roof on that side. Any ideas on how to solve this?

Thank you both. I have two problems solved with one topic!

Unfortunately I cannot mark both your answers as solutions to my topic(s)

I have found a problem when I try to search a topic in the forum.

I spell out in the search box "place rug in room" because I am having trouble placing an oriental carpet in a room (I do not want to cover the entire floor with it, just a place under a seating area).

The search results turned up topics related to the search term "place room".

What is wrong here?

Thanks Kat. I placed the bar on the wall above the shower, then opened the DBX for it and changed the floor to bottom setting to 32".

When I opened a camera view it opened OK, but the grab was not visible. It was "behind" the tub surround wall.

So I just replaced the shower with a tub, added a shower head and the grab, and then added a sliding glass shower door.

I have a bathtub/shower surround. I now wish to place handicap grab bars onto the shower walls but when I try to place the object I get message that it will conflict with another object in the same location, do I want to place it anyway. I answer yes, but then when I try to render the view the program crashes.

Is there another way to place these ADA grabs? I think I might have to change the tub from a shower surround to a plain tub, add the shower head, and then add the grab and the shower door separately.

Any other ideas?

Thank you Kat! I will test this first to be sure I do it correctly. And of course will have multiple backups of the backups!

Is it possible, in either HD Pro or in CA, to split a project among 2 or more teams/designers and when all parties have completed their parts to merge everything into a finished project?

Example: I have established the final design for walls and doors. Now I need to "tweak" the project with window positions, cabinets, fixtures, electrical, lighting, accessories, floor material, wall colors, etc. All the nit picky things that add pizzazz to a design and sells it to the client. But this is incredibly time consuming. I would like to give the same .plan file to another person and tell them to work on windows, wall and floor material, and accessories, while I work on fixtures, electric, and lighting. Then when we are both finished with our respective parts of the project, merge the two files into a single finished plan to present to the client.

In all my drawings I have a garage slab and a stem wall. I looked at an elevation and happened to notice that the top of the gray concrete stem wall was -14" in the elevation. But in the room specification the top of the stem wall was -12 5/8.

So in conclusion, the elevation shows the stem wall top 1.5" below where the room spec tells me it should be. Or else the room spec is including the 1.5" bottom plate of the wall that rests on top of the stem wall as part of the stem wall dimension.

One of these is in error, and I have to assume it is the elevation drawing, or at least where the reference line begins for the elevations.

Does anyone know, have I done something wrong, or is this indeed an error in the program? If it is an error, does it get corrected in a later version?

I have attached the file. Show a wall elevation of the garage interior and note where the top of the gray stem wall is vs where the room spec says it should be.

So anyone, CAN the default wall dimension/spacing between rooms used in the House Wizard be changed? I bet DJP knows the answer to this one!

My impression of that tool is it's designed to work more like a paper sketch, rather than something to create a carefully dimensioned plan.

Well that is fine, but it is following common sense by deducting from the room dimensions the wall thickness. I just would like to be able to deduct a different thickness.

When using the House Wizard tool, I note that it automatically deducts 4" in between rooms when placing them together. For example, I have a need to fill a 20' x 25' space with a sitting room, bedroom, closet, and bath. So I used the wizard to create a 20x25 bedroom block. I then created a bedroom, bathroom, living room, and closet block and adjusted the sizes to fit within the original 20x25 space.

The dimensions of the rooms were different, but understandably so. The bedroom was first and is 12x12. Bathroom was next and the dimensions displayed were 7'8" x 7'. This spans the entire 20' width of the space, and the outside perimeter of the two blocks exactly line up with the perimeter of the reference block.

So I asked myself how does 12' plus 7'8" add up to 20' and I realized the answer is because there is a wall between the two rooms.

OK, that made sense, but the actual dimension does not. A 2x4 stud wall with a layer of drywall on each side is going to be 4.5" wide, not 4". And common building practices do not use 1/4" drywall except for shaping curved surfaces.

So is there somewhere in the preferences or default settings where I can specify that the wall thickness between rooms in the House Wizard are 4.5" thick instead of 4"?