StephenGreene

i've had the same problem with a floating soffit protruding through the roof as shown in your top pic. i've found that an easy way to fix that is by making a small notch in the roof plane. this eliminates the floating soffit and the "boxed eave" at the other end of the roof.

Here is something I drew up in just a few minutes with three different ways to do the overhang on a multi-pitch roof. Usually, I just hit auto build with all the roof pitches set at the lowest pitch, then lock the shadow boards top height and then raise the pitch on the adjacent roof plane. That method keeps all the overhangs the same, but it does throw the hip off of center of the corner. You can also shorten the overhang of the steeper pitch, but I never do that. Another method is to have steeper pitch set on the plate just as the lower pitch but with no tails and a short shallow pitch roof plane at the bottom. This way leaves the hip centered on the corner and probably the method preferred by most framers because they don't have to figure out how far over to move the hip or valley and how much to raise the seat height of the higher roof pitch. Multi-pitch roof plan.plan

overhangs can still be exactly the same with different pitches.

I bet that as many as half the plans i draw have multi-pitch roofs with the fascia the same height. and i built a ton of them back in the day. all one has to do is raise the fascia of the steeper roof to match the fascia of the shallower roof plane.

same here. and 9' studs are 104 5/8", 10' studs are 116 5/8" etc.

no, no response from anyone.

yeah, i once got a downvote for helping someone with their roof.

Thanks, Joe. 24' fir and/or LSL is not hard to get around here, though it is expensive. but yeah, framing that would not be easy. scaffolds or SkyTrak would be the way.

Thanks, Ryan. I suspected as much but wasn't sure.

Thanks, but I don't see where that answers my question.

Full two-story house. Twelve foot ceilings on first floor and ten foot ceilings on second. Living area full two-story height (23'-7") with two exterior load-bearing walls (roof). Best I can tell, code says you can go full 20' with 2x6 framing. What is code for 23'-7" exterior load-bearing walls? 2x8? or 2x6 @ 12"O.C.? Thanks.

yeah, i'm not exactly thrilled with the new library set up myself. it can never find anything when i go to search.

Thanks, David. I had done this before and figured it out but my mind just went blank this time.

I accidentally deleted the Living Area on a plan and have no idea how to get it to reappear. I feel like an idiot not being able to figure it out. Anybody? Thanks.

I couldn't get them to match with the longer overhang on the 5/12. However, I did get them all to match up perfectly by moving the 5/12 overhang back to 18", like the rest of the roof. Very strange. Gene's Roof.plan

that's what i'm doing. i started one plan in X13 and ended up trashing that and going back 12.

open the dbx for the porch and under structure, lower the deck to whatever you need.

it IS a giant PITA for the framers. i never do this and though there may be, i can't imagine a situation where one might need too. many years ago, we built numerous projects designed by, ironically, an architect from Alabama who always dimensioned from the brick. it must be something they teach at Auburn.

my renders in X12 are FAR better than X13. and this is using the same camera with the same settings in the same plan. and they still look awful in X13. i've submitted this to support and they have no idea. so...i'm still using X12.

same here, so i'm using X12. very frustrating.

Two down votes for that?? LOLOL.......

go to attic level and drag the wall (with red arrow) down and around. it was also misaligned with the wall below so you might want to fix that first.

i upgraded to Monterey and X13 almost simultaneously. i really had no issues other than the renders in X13 looked like crap, so.....i just use X12.

uncheck the following boxes in the DBX of the particular roof plane you want exposed.

like this? shelf ceiling over the small room. railing along outside wall.