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That design time unknown makes it hard to tell someone how long it takes.

People seem to be shocked when they find out how many hours go into creating a full set of plans.  I began to wonder what the average time would be based on the following.

A.  The design.  Driven in part by the clients decision making abilities.

B.  Construction documents.  Driven by the complexity of the structure.

I have had projects that exceed 200 hrs.  How about you?

Using it over shear walls is fine.  A lot of builder want to use it as both the sheathing and siding.  The grooves make it too thin to qualify for prescriptive panels.  You can get thicker t1-11 but it may be cheaper to use sheathing and real siding.

T1-11 has too many issues with achieving brace wall shear panels.  It has become associated with low end builders.

Ross said something very important it takes "countless hours" to learn how to operate this software.  I think you may have been lead to believe it is easy to do.  You first have to know something about designing a structure, codes, material limitations, cost benefit of various constructions styles.  The software can not teach you any of this.  Imitating something that has been drawn by someone else is not the way to go about it.  Not to discourage you but seriously, how old are you?

maybe you could explain to your father that it is harder than he thinks it is.  He should just pay the qualified people to design and let you get back to what ever it is that you do.

Sometimes, just re-snapping the connections together can fix odd things that show up.

I do that type of work.  Send me your email and I can get you some information.

tom@idahodesignbuildgroup.com

Any time I read or hear about "copying a plan", I wonder who your copying it from and why that designer is not doing the work.

It looks like the same width as the roof of the bump out.  It could be generating that section as an attic roof.  Just a guess though.

OK that makes sense.  Thanks

I do that type of work all the time.

tom@idahodesignbuildgroup.com

208 651-2520

Give me a call or email me what you have going.

Tom

Maybe I missed something.  How are walls being cut from one plan and placed in the exact same place on a DIFFERENT plan.  I think he said "6" every time he did this.  Is that a macro?  How are those walls going back exactly where they would have been even though the cut is from one plan and the paste is on another?

I did not mean Robert was patient in how he created the wall.  I will leave it to you from here.

Robert is a patient man.

Another way to shrink file size is ditch the whole BIM thing.  An example would be the foundation to sill plate anchor bolts.  You don't really need to place a bolt every place one would go.  Make a cad detail that the concrete sub will understand.  There are many examples of this.  Lose all the furniture you may have placed on the plan (the framers don't care where you are putting your couch).  By themselves, none of these are big, but they all add up.  A good rule to go my is that most 2d elements take less file size than a 3d element (so delete that toaster that may be sitting on the counter top).

The left side of your porch roof is going to trap water against the bumped out wall.

And just like that, Scott is the winner.  Post #13 and no solution.

I use a different plan file for the as built and show the demo on that plan only.  The actual plan would have those walls removed, just like in the real world.

I would be really surprised if your concrete foreman orders rebar based on what the material list says.

My wild guess would be a left over attic wall that now needs to be deleted.

Perhaps you could take some of the remedial classes that CA offers.

Your doing it wrong.

Maybe you could clarify what you mean by "it did not work".  Did not build any roof or just not what you wanted?

It might be snapping to some other object or point.  I think you would normally want it to do that but you can always turn off object snaps.