Wall Top and Wall Bottom Settings

by | Dec 20, 2024 | Learning Center, Walls, Doors, and Windows

Video: https://youtu.be/LqPgkVH2zRw
Transcript:

In Envisioneer, you can adjust the properties of your walls, based on your design, to make the top and bottom of the walls level, sloped, or stepped.

Let’s select the foundation wall in our example and adjust the bottom of the wall to accommodate a stepped foundation.

  1. Select the concrete wall and then right-click and select Properties.
  2. Under the Basic tab in the Properties section, you will see a Bottom Edge option, which is set to Level by default. Select the Level option and then choose the Step
  3. Once Step is selected as the Type, three new options are available for you to edit, b-Start Height, c-End Height, and d-Maximum Step Distance. When a wall is selected, you will see a Green, Blue, and Red grip. The Green grip represents the start point of your wall, and the Red grip represents the end point of your wall. Looking at the wall that was selected, we can see that the green grip, which is our starting point, is located at the point where we want to drop further. Type in 4′ into the b-Start Point.
  4. The c-End Point, we do not want to adjust this value, as we want it to stay at its current height, so it will stay at 0″ from the base of the wall.
  5. The d-Maximum Step Distance is a variable you can adjust based on the Building Code in your area. We want each step in this design to be 1′ down, so we will type in 1′ here.
  6. Select OK. The foundation wall is now stepping down from 0″ to 4′ below the base of the wall.

Note: The strip footing did not adjust to our changes, so you will need to delete it and add a new footing using the Footing Attached To Walls option.

On the interior, lets select the interior wall that was added in that we will want to slope so that it runs under our stairs.

  1. Select the wall and then right-click and select Properties.
  2. Under the Basic tab in the Properties section, you will see a Top Edge option. It will be set to Level by default and display the heights of your walls defined in your Building Locations. Select the Level option and then choose the Slope
  3. Once Slope is selected as the Type, two new options are available for you to edit, b-Start Height and c-End Height. The Green grip represents the start point of your wall and the Red grip represents the end point of your wall. Looking at the wall that was selected we can see that the Green grip, which is our start point, is located at the point that we want to be the lowest. Type in 4″ into the b-Start Point.
  4. The c-End Point, is the highest portion of our wall and we want it to match up with any existing wall heights in our design that it may be connected to. This value will stay the 8′- 1 1/8″.
  5. Select OK. The interior wall is now sloping from 8′-1 1/8″ down to 4″ to sit under our stair.