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Foundations and Rooms

Foundations and Rooms

When a foundation plan is created, rooms or curb that displays in floor plan view on the
included in the Living Area calculation floor below provided that the stem wall or
generate a stem wall, grade beam, or slab curb’s Main Layer has a Concrete or Brick
foundation below them. Garage rooms material type.
generate slab foundations, but exterior rooms The width of the concrete cutout can be
such as Decks, Courts and Balconies do not defined and you can specify whether the
generate any foundation. See “Room Types cutout displays in the Door or Window
and Functions” on page 414.
Specification dialog. See “Framing Panel”
Interior foundation walls are not generated on page 556.
unless:
By default, a room on Floor 1 specified as a
• They separate the area under a Slab or Garage or a Slab will be assigned a lower
Garage room from the rest of the plan; floor height when the foundation is built. The
• They separate the area under a room amount that it is lowered depends on the
specified as having a slab foundation foundation type:
from the rest of the plan; • The floor height will drop the default
• They define areas under rooms with dif- thickness of the floor platform for Floor 1
ferent floor heights. plus 12” (300 mm) in a Walls with Foot-
ings or Grade Beams on Piers foundation.
• A wall on Floor 1 is specified as a Bear-
ing Wall. in the Wall Specification dia- • The floor height will drop 3 1/2” (88 mm)
log. See “Foundation Panel” on page 398. in a Monolithic Slab foundation.
These values are set in the Foundation
Note: To remove all or part of the concrete Defaults dialog. See “Foundation Panel” on
slab in the basement area, select a basement page 689.
room and define it as Open Below in the
Room Specification dialog. To build a Garage slab with stem walls

Garages 1. Before the foundation is generated,
When a foundation is generated based on the specify the room as a Garage or Slab.
floor plan of Floor 1, a room on the first floor 2. Build an automatic Wall with Footings
specified as either a Garage or Slab type will or Grade Beam on Piers foundation.
receive a stem wall or pier foundation with a
slab floor and stem walls. If a monolithic In the Floor 1 Garage’s Room Specification
dialog, Floor Supplied by the Foundation
slab foundation is generated, the room will Room Below will now be checked. See
receive a slab floor with curbs.
“Structure Panel” on page 436.
An opening placed in a wall defining a By default, the program produces a 4" (100
Garage will receive a cutout in the stem wall
mm) slab and 24” (600 mm) high stem walls

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