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I'm trying to create a basement under my main floor. The main floor walls are 2x6 with sheathing and vinyl siding. The Core boundary is set as the framing, which is were I set my dimensions from. I want to align the outside of the basement concrete wall with the core boundary (ie stud framing) from the wall above. What is the best way of doing this? When I place the main floor as the view underlay it only shows up the external face of the wall above. Is there a way of having this show the core boundary instead of the wall face? Thanks.
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Often I will use reference planes as my "boundaries" and align the exterior face of my foundation walls and the exterior core face of the stud wall to them. You could even lock them and then only have to move the ref planes if you needed to modify your floor plan.
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Thank you for these replys. I haven't worked with reference planes much, so I'll have to play with these. It seems that this could get quite complex with a large plan? With regard to cutting a quick section to align walls, I have been doing this, but it seems to me there must be better ways of doing it, as this is both time consuming and prone to missing walls, especially in complex plans. The method I am currently using is to copy the floor (the main floor, since I already pick the core boundary to draw in the floor) to the basement level and pick my basement walls from that. However it seems crazy to me (and I am new to Revit, so lot's of things seem crazy to me at the moment) that I can pick the wall core boundary to dimension an underlay, but when I want to draw a wall I can only pick the finish face. Is there a setting somewhere that I can change to do this? If not, this really need's to be added to the wishlist. In fact, it would make sense to me that you could completely disable the select wall face altogether. If there are other methods that you are using to align basement walls, please share.
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In my opinion the advantage to using reference planes is that they can be seen in all views that intersect them and they will not print, so they can be used as construction lines and do not need to be erased. They can become irritating to look at if you create too many of them, but their visibility can also be controlled thru object styles  color, linetype) or thru a view's visibility graphics (half-tone, on/off, etc.)
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