SO here is our dilemma. We had a project with a bunch of stacked walls, with the lower portion a CMU stem wall to from 6" above slab to 3' below slab, and the upper portion a gyp and stud wall to various heights. There are also a bunch of simple stg and gyp walls from slab to various heights. For structural cost cutting reasons the stem walls where eliminated, it will now be the stud and gyp wall to slab, with a thickened slab footing under the load bearing ones.
The change was made, where all the stacked walls where changed to the simple walls, and two things have reared their heads.
1: some things seem to have been hosted by the stem wall portion of the stacked walls, so a bunch of openings disappeared, as well as some toilets, toilet partitions, etc. And...
2: there are many locations where the new stud and gyp wall still extends below the slab by 3', causing cleanup problems in a huge number of plan views.
The changes already took a good 11 hours of work, and I am mostly trying to figure out the most expedient way to address everything. Either we go back to the model pre changes, and use a different approach to make the changes, or we try to expedite the cleanup process.
So, last issue first, is there a way to create a wall schedule that actually shows the bottom location of walls, so we can grab and edit all of them quickly?
Also, is there a way to change a stacked wall to a simple wall, and have items that where hosted in the compound portion that is going away become hosted in the compound portion that is staying? And failing that, is there a way to choose which piece of a compound wall things are hosted in, so when the compound wall gets VE'd out, we don't also loose a bunch of hosted items in the process.
Any help is GREATLY appreciated.
Thanks,
Gordon