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2 hours ago, Kbird1 said:

 

Why are you moving it?  Like CS , I have now found if I place a single one on the beam center it Auto-cuts the Joists either side of the beam,

but if you rely on the Beam's own (built-in) Bearing line it joins them in the center as you experienced.

 

When I start a bearing line on one side of a beam, on its edge, and drag the other end of it to the other side of the beam (across the room), the bearing line automatically moves to the centerline of the beam.  Therefore, I cannot use Chopsaw's solution:

On 11/25/2018 at 1:01 PM, Chopsaw said:

 

Yes that is the solution.  Bearing line on each side of the beam.

14 hours ago, Chopsaw said:

 

It would seem that this does work in X7 and you can also select and move a bearing line which will also work if it is in the center of the beam.

 

 

Thanks for the video.  I can successfully snap to either side of the beam.  Unfortunately, when I drag the bearing line from one side of the beam to the other, the bearing line moves itself to the center of the beam.

3 hours ago, MarkMc said:

There may be another way since I don't do a lot of framing in Chief and I don't know for sure if this works in X7 but..

this was done with a single floor so beam was placed on same floor as ceiling framing- after placing lock depth and move beam to correct height set joists to butt in default or in framing DBX, build framing, draw line along beam and extend it out past on each side, select line and then the trim tool-use fence and sticky mode likely helps (also helps to lock the beam layer first) then trim joists on one side, add second line or move the first one and repeat trim on second run of joists.

This works but I'm looking for an automatic solution akin to what CA does for the floor joists.

3 hours ago, DRAWZILLA said:

if you make it a bearing beam by checking the box at the bottom of the DBX, it should break the ceiling joists.

Only if the beam is entirely below the joists.  This doesn't work if the beam's bottom is at the same elevation as the joists.

2 hours ago, Chopsaw said:

Mark's method would be the technically correct version.  However if you are not worried about a material list and just want the correct look in 2D you could use a solid fill in the beam and move it to the top display group.

This is an OK workaround but then the beam covers up walls, dimension lines, and other things.

2 hours ago, Chopsaw said:

 

Yes that is the solution.  Bearing line on each side of the beam.

The bearing line "snaps" to the center of the beam.  There's no way to move it to the edge of the beam.

I guess the software doesn't support what I'm looking for.  Thanks anyway.

I am using Chief Architect X7.  I cannot figure out how to automatically butt ceiling joists against a ceiling beam with the same bottom height as the joists.  In other words, hang the ceiling joists on the beam.  If I drop the ceiling beam below the joists, I can make them bear on the beam, but that's not what I'm looking for.

This works for floor joists and beams, but seemingly not for ceiling joists and beams.  Am I missing something obvious?

Screenshot shows joists running "through" the beam if the beam has the same bottom elevation as the joists.

Thanks for your help.