Framing Plans Setup

[cheboludo]

I'm still in the learning process here, preparing to switch from AutoCad and am having a hell of a time figuring out the best practice for setting up framing plans. I would like to see my framing over structural walls, but also have arch walls show up. Ideally, I would also want to have structural walls above show up.

I've figured out how to get my walls and openings setup how i like, but can only model my framing in the view above, which is annoying, since I can't tell where my door and openings are. My cut plane is set to where the openings are in the walls, and my view range is set high enough to see framing, but the framing doesn't show up. What am I missing here? I'm using hidden line and course view in my plans.

This also seems to be a similar problem when I'm trying to set up my roof framing plans. I have my roof lines set up how I like in one view, and the view below is set up showing all the walls with their openings how I like. But when I overlay my walls (below) in the view with my roof lines (above), my walls don't show up properly (bearing wall shading, openings visible, lineswork, etc. )

What is the best practice in these situations? Which view should I overlay in the other view? Is it possible to show framing over walls below with structural walls above?

Thanks for any help or advice,
Che

[erikbjur]

Hey "Che"
Call it a hunch, but I think the attached file is exactly what you are looking for.

[scowsert]

Is your discipline set to structural in the View Properties?

[jonp]

Che,
I've replied to several people here with I think this same problem and this is how we handle what I think you are trying to do.

We are doing this in a round about way. We have one view for our truss/joist layout and one view for Lintels. The lintel view is cut where it can cross window and door openings and the depth and top of the view is set 6". This view then shows all wall openings and we place our lintels here. We then place both views on a sheet and line up the views on top of each other. After this, we turn off walls on the Truss/joist view to get the desired look. We do this for each floor and at the roof. It takes a little time to get used to it and you have to coordinate notes and markers so they don't overlap but it is easy to fix on the sheet by activating view.

Please let me know if this helps in any way.

Jon

[cheboludo]

thanks for the replies. erik, unfortunately your attempts to sabotage my computer with a corrupt file has failed. could you be a lamb and try to get a "clean" Floor Sample Project file up there? thanks

jonp, i just received a similar response from the autodesk support. i'll let you know how it goes.

[erikbjur]

thanks for the replies. erik, unfortunately your attempts to sabotage my computer with a corrupt file has failed.

Damn, you got me :0) I checked the file posted and it read fine on my end. Did any one else run into a corrupt file?

[cheboludo]

thanks erik, i got it to work fine. i'm thinking that it's all about the "Looking Up" setting in the structural view properties. it's already cleared up tons of issues i've been having.

scowsert, i've been setting my discipline to coordination so that i can see both architectural walls and structural walls, shown differently of course. this is the standard in the office where i work.

thanks again, e

-che