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[Tom Rogers]

I am creating a stem wall foundation plan and would like to have the overlay of the first floor to show the walls and plumbing.  However I can not seem to find a way to get the plumbing to show on the overlay.  Any tips or help or how one else does it?

 

[Martin Livingston]

Do you want to see the plumbing drop or the whole fixture?

[Tom Rogers]

Probably ideally the whole fixture but I could settle for drop perhaps. 

[Martin Livingston]

If you recreate the symbols you are using adding a construction point where the plumbing drop would be then that construction point will appear in "Floor System" mode the same way the stock Softplan toilets do now. If I want the fixtures themselves to appear I just copy and paste from the drawing after I generate the floor plan, stick them on their own layer so I can turn them off if needed and explode them into line drawings.

[Tom Rogers]

That is what I will have to do.  Was hoping for an simpler step.  

[Thomas Davis]

I am creating a stem wall foundation plan and would like to have the overlay of the first floor to show the walls and plumbing.  However I can not seem to find a way to get the plumbing to show on the overlay.  Any tips or help or how one else does it?

 

Tom,

In your foundation plan create a new layer (faded floor plan) and make it a "faded" layer or assign a pen / screen color to achieve the same thing. Open your floor plan and copy it to Softplan clipboard. Go to your foundation plan and paste from Softplan clipboard, pasting your drawing to the side of the foundation plan. Assign all items on the pasted floor plan to the new layer, "faded floor plan". Erase any unwanted items from your pasted floor plan that you do not want showing over the foundation plan. Use tools-group to group all remaining floor plan items together. Use move command and toggle on "group" and move an exact position on your floor plan to an exact position on your foundation plan (reference point works great). You now should have a faded overlay of your floor plan items with your foundation plan below. You can turn this layer off as needed.

 

This way sounds like a lot of work, but it really only takes about a minute to achieve.

[Tom Rogers]

Thanks Thomas.  I will try that 

[Mark Petri]

If you have that new faded layer set as the active layer on the foundation plan you are copying to and copy and paste in from another drawing, all the items pasted in ought to go on the new layer (at least that's the way it is supposed to work). One less step in the process.