Doug_N

Hi Bruce, It seems that the problem that you are seeing, from what I can figure out from your post, is the handrail changes where there is wall adjacent and where there isn't a wall adjacent.

There are a few issues with this arrangement. The deck beam is not as wide as the stucco wall and the stucco attic wall lines up with the attic wall over the main part of the house. You have a couple of choices to work around the problem. 1) you can make a jog in the attic wall so that the outer surface of the wall lines up with the beam below, then edit the roof to match the wall. 2) you can move the railing wall to make the exterior surface of the beam align with the exterior surface of the attic wall above, and then no roof edit is necessary. 3) you can edit the roof to intersect with the beam and then change to attic roof so that where the roof cuts the wall, below the roof it is drywall and above the roof it is stucco type.

Ok, so the reason for the post was to learn about how to detail wall assemblies where external strapping is required and for some reason including instruction for where the strapping goes is a good idea so that there is no mistake about where things go. If the strapping is vertical, then here are the settings so that the strapping starts at the top of the stem wall. For vertical strapping it seems the default is to start at the top of the stem wall. See the DBX below For horizontal strapping the bottom strap must be specified as the same as the floor thickness. the program automatically starts at the reference floor level (zero absolute) and not the top of the stem wall.

No, you told it to do trusses, and it tried to do that. When CA can't do trusses it fills in spaces with rafters, and that is when the system broke down because it didn't do that completely either.

That is what you asked it to do. So it attempted to follow your directions but failed. Most time CA will post a warning, but my guess is that they didn't program an adequate error trapping routine for this case. I suggest you send the file to CA support so that they can diagnose it. More than likely nothing will be done about patching the current version because this is not a critical error, and a user can work around this fairly easily. At least in my opinion.

The program had a stroke when trying to calculate trusses for a 2" pitch roof with no depth and no flat ceiling over the room. . If you change to conventional framing (rafters,) then the framing will generate. If you make the truss have energy heels and include a flat ceiling in the room then framing will generate properly. The image below is with trusses CA did not generate an unable to generate trusses message, but if you look at a section, it becomes obvious that CA is struggling with a space that is too small in section for trusses to work.

I am with Chopsaw on this. The building code specifies the moisture content when used, so you would need to have a qualified person stamp the lumber with the species, the grade.

It can be done, but you can't mull them together. 1) Make the fixed glass unit 2) Make the hopper units as separate windows. The width of the unit is 1/2 of the sash wider than the fixed glass lower window 3) overlap the hopper sash with the lower window, and overlap the dividing sash of the hopper windows Because of the overlapping, these won't mull, but it looks like what you were after. A bit of a cludge, but heck. Failing that you can do window symbols to create this window in cad and set it to be a window so that it will cut the wall to fit.

After seeing the illustrations, now I get it. This serves as the brick lintel in place of the angle iron lintel used in most of North America. Interesting.

This is a manually constructed dormer, and manually adjusted roof planes. The roof is raised over 8" above the wall and CA built a short attic wall except where the dormer wall is above the roof. Pull the first floor exterior up and it will cover the notch.

Just out of curiosity, why would a structural lintel have that shape? It seems counter intuitive to me.

This seems to work if you do a few steps first. 1) make sure the room above is defined to have a floor 2) do not have any open to below areas above where the stairs are going to be generated. (I think you may have made a few attempts to do this staircase and the previous attempts were interfering with your latest attempts.) 3)in the stair DBX lock the bottom of the stairs, and adjust the tread depth to the required size 4) make sure that the riser info falls into code allowed parameters (oh how I wish that CA would allow us to set these defaults.) 112151755_Addition3x15 (1).plan

Here is an example of a simple building with one of the interior walls being set to be load-bearing. Pictured below, is the resulting automatic foundation generated. I think this is why CA is creating walls and footings below some of your interior walls. It may be also that those areas in your screen clip have a different floor level that is lower than the surrounding floor.

The end gable is correct and should remain. See my previous post on this build.

Hi In the file that you posted there were a couple of things that I noticed in the file before I did anything other than open it. 1) The roofs were in manual. CA would not generate any changes to the roof structure. 2) The wall assembly that has exposed framing has stucco on one side and drywall on the other. So I dug into the geometry of the roof and wall as shown in your screen shot Notice that the longer roof does not cover the wall below (that is an attic wall.) Also notice that the shorter roof cuts halfway into the attic roof. So by pulling back the shorter roof to just touch the attic wall the outer stucco layer shows and the framing is hidden. Also pulling out the longer roof, an adequate roof overhang is achieved. Hopefully this helps.

Very similar to Steve's solution. I did this before I noticed that Steve had fixed it. I copied down all the roof pitches, turned on autorebuild roofs, then worked my way around the building adjusting pitches, gable and hip roof settings. I had to fix some ceiling heights and then created the gable for the entrance using a gable wall line. Disabled auto roof build and then adjusted the gable. Kinzler Roof Problem.zip

Doll house views work that way, as do the model slicer tools.

If you post the plan file one of us will more than likely post a fix for the problem.

Would you have a gable at the exterior wall edge? If so you can use a gable line over the entrance wall area, assuming that you have auto rebuild roof enabled.

For sure you should contact tech support to report this.

Although I haven't tried this, you might put a soffit under the stairs and put the light there. Or, you might create a ceiling plane under the underside of the stairs and put the light there,

I exploded the dormer. Then manually adjusted the roof following the suggestions that Eric made. I duplicated this in X-15 and had the same results. Perhaps you should contact tech support and report this as a bug.

This should be easy to do by manually adjusting the roof perimeters. Post a plan and I will have a go at it.

Provided that there is no glass in the door.