Doug_N

3 hours ago, Chopsaw said:

How about using the tool that is meant for that purpose ?   Edit Wall Cutout Polyline.   

I've never heard of that. 

That might just work. It would mean lining up three elements but what the heck.  If it works it will be worth it. 

I have created a moulded polyline to make a stone surround for windows and doors in a project that looks pretty good.  The stone surround is converted to a symbol that has the properties of a passthrough window.  So first I place the window assembly, then put the stone surround over the same center.  The passthrough creates a void in the wall cutting the masonry to show the stone moulding.  The problem is that the project requires some windows and doors to have an arched or vaulted stone surround over a rectangular window or door.  If I make a vaulted stone surround symbol it cuts the wall at the height of the arch.  That leaves a rectangular opening in the wall.  Tearing my hair out with this one.

This is view with just a polyline with the stone surround for the right window.  

This view is the same polyline moulding converted to a window symbol.

Any ideas???

Please post the plan file.

Robert, you make a good point about the interior footing requirements.  Some jurisdictions also require that the footing for interior load-bearing walls require a curb above the level of the basement slab as well.  I have never understood the rationale for this requirement except for the explanation from a senior inspector who told me that this ensures that the basement frame wall will be in the correct location over the footing.  That makes sense.

I am only guessing Gene, but I assume that the OP had auto framing on, and then for some reason when changing something clicked on the retain framing option to preserve something.  Checking a couple of other rooms that option was not chosen so I would assume that they turned that option on for the deck for some reason.  

This is the DBX for the deck in question.

Uncheck this box, and voila!  Deck will generate!  

Hi Gene,

Please post the plan file.

1 hour ago, BruceKC said:

Thanks for all the help, I really appreciate it.  It was a very difficult issue to express, and I'm afraid I did a very poor job.  I was familiar with the "break tool", but only as a symbol and really never used it.  But now I realize that it will allow me to show the stairs below at some point and that was the issue I was trying to figure out.  Again, Thanks to everyone.

sometimes it is hard to explain a problem to someone else when you can so clearly see what is wrong yourself.  I get it.  Hopefully the answers here helped.  One thing that usually helps is to post the actual plan file as well although in this case, I don't think it would have made any difference. 

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.

1 minute ago, SHCanada2 said:

i'm confused now. Where did i tell it to do rafters? the roof dbx shows trusses

 

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. 

1 minute ago, SHCanada2 said:

thanks,

 

thanks I didnt think it was trusses because when i clicked on the member in cross section, it said it was a rafter:

 

but the roof dbx shows it as trusses

 

any idea why it would show rafters? you can even see the rafter tail generated in the section

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.

7 hours ago, Chopsaw said:

I guess the best advice would be to check with the local building inspector as you would not get away with that here.  You can certainly saw your own lumber but you need a licensed grader to grade the lumber for any structural use.  Great for building a shed that does not require a permit though.

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.

Just now, SkullMesaRanch said:

 

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

17 hours ago, SkullMesaRanch said:

Will someone check my file and see what I'm doing wrong with this roof transition?  I can't delete the end truss shown below and am not sure how it got there.  I did delete one of the longer trusses at the transition.  Also, how do you keep the attic walls from having drywall interiors?  I suspect I need to rebuild the roof but didn't want to lose the work I've done. 

 

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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.