walls, walls, walls

[tect75]

trying to construct a wall for a basement. technically it is a stacked wall 8" cmu to 4 ft then 2x4 stud wall to the ceiling. catch is that on the inside is a full 4 in stud wall with 1" air space. thought i could use the stacked wall command and create this. havent got that far as i was trying to create the 8" cmu with the 2x4 next to it i can t get it to show up right. always shows as solid masonry (pic2) in plan even though in preview it shows correctly (pic1).any ideas. the cut planes and such are correct and i have no problems with other stacked walls.

[patricks]

for one thing you have your display set to Coarse, which makes wall display as a solid hatch.

But I for one tend to stay far away from stacked walls. They're a good idea but need ALOT of work to make them useful enough without all the problems. I have done 2 or 3 projects that either started with stacked walls and scrapped them soon after because of problems, or I got so far along that I kept plugging along but wish that I had not used stacked walls to begin with.

BTW you could do your walls as separate walls with the interior stud wall in both wall types, and just make sure you place both walls by the interior core or finished face, and then you can join geometry of the walls and the inner stud wall will appear continuous in all views.

On the last project that used stacked walls, I was not able to get rid of the line to my satisfaction between the interior face of the upper and lower portion of the wall.

[tect75]

ok the course setting thing................duh, why didnt i think of that. i have a few stacked walls in this project. they only go the height of one floor so i guess i miss some of the problems stacked walls cause. thanks for the help

[bpayne]

Ditto on the stacked wall isues. It can become a nightmare on anything, but the simplistic of situations. Using multiple walls also gives you the benefit of starting each "side" independant of each other!

[patricks]

It also allows you to extend the top of the upper wall or the bottom of the lower wall as needed. I ran into that problem on my last stacked walls project. The building had stepped footings to follow site topography, so I set the lower part of the stacked wall to be variable. Of course that meant the top was a fixed height, and yet I had one part of the top of the parapet that needed to drop down on one side. What a pain that was!