MN_JohnH

I want my windows to be higher and if I make it bearing higher up I can integrate a header up into the trusses.

If I frame the roof and not the ceiling, I still get all the extra trusses. I am not sure what we are trying to accomplish there. Or maybe I am misunderstanding. All you need to do is raise the plates, and stretch the studs? That's a lot. And if I move a window or something and need to re frame the wall I will have to do it all over again? Also, what if I wanted to have some windows in that upper wall area above the normal ceiling height? I would have to frame that all by piece?

Thanks for the responses. I guess I didn’t make it clear that I know how to draw the trusses. The problem I’m having is controlling where the walls frame to the truss. Basically, I can’t find any setting that lets me define the top of wall framing at a specific point on the truss. Yes, I can raise the roof and get the look I want, but when I reframe the walls I still end up with the same problem. For example, what if I want the wall to frame to the bottom chord of the truss? On the lower side I can accomplish that by setting the room ceiling height and not balloon framing through. But then the higher side frames to that same level. If I set the walls to balloon through, then the framing runs all the way to the top chord instead. What I need is a way to control the top plate height / bearing point of the wall framing relative to the truss. Right now, when the wall frames all the way to the top cord, the framing gets crazy because it tries to frame around all the truss members. My second problem is that once I manually draw and place my trusses, then build the roof framing, Chief creates another complete set of trusses automatically. So now I have duplicate trusses plus even more crazy wall framing, and it ignores the bearing points I established in my custom trusses. So I can build and customize the trusses fine (I think), including locking the envelope with bearing points, but I can’t get the walls to frame to those bearing points correctly. Again, my sample plan is attached. Raised bearing roof truss problem.plan

I am wondering how to build a roof truss that bears on the top cord like this picture and then I would need to get the wall to frame up to that bearing point. I have a plan here where I was able to change the shape of the truss and I made the walls to balloon through ceiling and now they go all the way to the upper truss cord and don't stop at the bearing point I created in the trusses with the truss envelope. Also, how can I get the framing to use my trusses instead of making it's own trusses in addition to mine? Raised bearing roof truss problem.plan

OK I think I figured it out. It is the pony lower wall wall properties setting that I need to change from the brick veneer to the fir stud. Once I change that everything seems to work fine. Seems like that was a setting in my template, I don't know what it didn't turn up as a problem before now.

Thanks, that looks like it should work and when I open you plan I can see that the walls are lined up the way I want but when I go back to my plan I see I have the settings exactly the same as yours and the walls don't line up.

Thanks for the try, and yes it is beautiful this time of year in MN before the bugs come out, (and if nobody throws a spark out the car window). On the plan I attached, I hadn't moved any walls or change any thing, i had just drawn 4 walls and built foundation and that is how it came out. I just tried setting the auto build foundation but that basically does what I already did, the same problem still exists. It seems to want to line up the exterior of my ICF wall to the exterior surface of the pony wall above. So I tried adding the stone veneer of the pony wall to the foundation wall but it still lines up the exterior of my ICF wall to the exterior surface of the pony wall above and now my stone veneer on the foundation wall protrudes past that pony wall surface above. I can meticulously go through and move all my foundation walls, (I did that once but upon rebuild I am here again). There has to be a setting that tells the walls which surfaces i want to align. Can't figure out what I am missing here. I just watch a video on foundation wall and they don't say anything about this. Their walls just lined up perfectly automatically with the exterior surface ignoring their pony wall. I change d my foundation to 8" CMU and the results are the same still, the exterior of the CMU lines up with the exterior of the pony wall above.

Seems like there used to be a setting for lining up the surfaces of the foundation wall. I know it is here but I am not finding it. Foundation problem.zip

Thanks, I guess I was looking at the main floor for settings. Makes sense. I will probably forget and need to ask again in a year. For selecting the rooms I just made a backup copy then eliminated walls until there was just one room and the made the changes and copied and pasted walls back. In the past when I have gone through and selected rooms there would always be a closet somewhere that you don't see and then later on it becomes evident that things are messed up. Anyway, thanks for the help.

I am looking back at this as I have to do this again with a new plan. I have my floor plan done and now I want to arrange my floor to be as we talked about above. So one questions is, how can I select all the rooms at once instead of having to do each room by itself? And I am not getting the floor structure in an editable mode even on the sample plan here. It seems the setting might have changed since this question was first asked.

Thanks guys, I guess this is right, I need another line. Seems like in the past I was able to just put a line at a different level than the terrain perimeter and it would just take the terrain at the level it is and flow to the one line. Sorry for the trouble.

This is a first for me, I have never really had any problems with terrains with basic contours. I have a simple terrain here drawn and an elevation line and an elevation region at different levels. But in camera view the terrain is still level. It started in another plan but seems to be in this plan to when I simplified it just to see if it was a plan specific problem. If I keep playing and add some more drastic elevations in different place I can eventually get it to show some drastic results but it is not performing as normal. Is there a setting I changed somewhere without realizing it? Terrain problem.plan

Thanks, I could find a way to eliminate the material on the cantilever but I just drew in invisible foundation walls and that fixed it. I figure it was something like that but I didn't think to try it. Thanks for leading me in the right direction.

Thanks, The concrete is a 1.5" overpour for the floor heat, it is on top of the OSB sheathing. I don't think that would cause my problem but obviously I am missing something.

I have a crawlspace under this addition and there is a surface there at the level of the bottom of the floor joist with no thickness and I can't click on it to figure out what it is. I can't get the file down to under 14mb even zipped so I have a link to a dropbox file https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/moyz5trozohubrrg0cycp/Problem.plan?rlkey=4fn1ul395kdfz0t0i5rtgaq63&st=i7jc3hjt&dl=0 That is not a room so there is not ceiling there I don't think. Camera #14 shows the space where the problem exists.