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Curious about this as well. Even if the truss company can build to suit the trey ceiling will it be as strong? I have a request to do this in a two story home right now.

2 hours ago, VHampton said:

 

Architect w/ civil engineering background, but don't take my post as anything other than general observations. Your design is do-able in any number of ways, and ultimately the engineer will decide. 

 

For example... They could opt to use a four sided ridge at the base of the oversized cupola. This would allow the upper "cupola" walls to bear down onto the 4 rectangular interlocking ridge beams which would spread the load onto the structural hips.

 

Very much like Michael has shown, and as others have suggested. The use of collar ties as shown in Michael's cross section would help support the ridge by means of posts.  

 

The bottom line is that there are always many ways to approach a structural solution. If truss manufacturing is local to your area, then by all means consider that as a possible cost savings method. 

 

All the best! 

 

 

 

 

What a perfect example of a pic.

2 hours ago, VHampton said:

Flitch plates bolted inside micro-lams can address the roof.

 

They can weld a moment connect at the ridge. They'll do the same welds at the base of the longer walls. 

 

The rafters by the Kitchen have no bearing wall.  They'll need a W section to handle the gravity loads (posted on both ends).

 

There's enough height however to get a tall beam in there. 

 

Engineer will probably size something 14 inches tall and at least 100 lbs per foot. 

 

By the way, even if the vaulted area gets collar tied (which it should) steel over the bar stools is a must have. 

 

 

 

That's some good info right there. Something tells me you are an engineer.

I agree, of course around here I send my plans of to be engineer stamped but I still try to avoid sending anything that is not able to be built or too complex.

Hey guys, just looking for some opinions. Any structural engineers here in the forum that could suggest a way this would be done structurally? It's a first for me and the client wanted it and also wanted it allow light inside the home. I am very curious how the opening in the vaulted ceiling planes would work. What would what the "tunnel" going thru the attic rest on? Very curious if this is even possible.

Can you develop complete plan sets thru HD? I have never researched it.

30 minutes ago, Gawdzira said:

Phew, I thought this was for Passover.

hahaha totally.

1 hour ago, StephenM said:

Thanks for the help everyone! Good to know for future, that it is something you have to manually do.

 

I am not sure how you set up the roof but when I do dutch gables they always auto build real nice for me. 

here is the saved file if you want it back......

648273596_ExistingHouse.plan

I couldn't get it to auto build without throwing things out of whack but just simply drew a roof plan over the front railing, made the eave heights the same and it came out great. I had to manipulate the roof connections and slide that gable wall back a tad to get it to look right.

did you click on the porch railing, go to roof settings and click dutch gable?

Found it, dang, previous versions OOB never made me dig this deep. Thanks guys, it was on 1/4" defaults

or this.........

Am I in the right area guys? haha this one is getting me..... been a while since I came across something like this I am just not getting.

7 minutes ago, DRAWZILLA said:

check your text style setting in the correct layer those fixtures are on.

 

it all still looks right to me.

I have my labels set up like I want. Working plan is right but in electrical they are still uppercase and bigger font. I have messed with settings for a half hour and cannot figure it out. I can't stand minor things like this holding me up.

working plan view                                                                                                              electrical plan view

Thanks, I guess suppressing will be the way to go. This was a problem in AutoCad but they had a weird code you could type in the properties box to get it to double line.

Amateur question of the day here. How do we break up the text into double lines when this happens? It rarely happens so I have never investigated.

17 minutes ago, tundra_dweller said:

Try opening up the room spec for the living room and make sure "Build Foundation Below" is checked in the Structure > Floor settings, then rebuild the foundation with the add foundation button.

That was it, not sure why that was unchecked but glad it was an easy fix. Thanks!

Hey guys, I have attached a quick sample of what I am having issues with all of a sudden with monolithic slabs. It won't build with a brick ledge and nothing shows up on level 0. I went thru my settings on the "brick 4" wall and cannot see where anything is wrong.

mono issues.plan

Does the platform version need a slight slope to it? I assume it does but can just note it on the drawing.

I like both of your ways guys. Makes perfect sense.

Hey guys, is a widows walk nothing more than stopping roofing planes at a certain point and adding a zero pitch roof plane to close off the roof and then add railing walls above it to form a flat platformed space? I assume there are two types, a cupola type with windows and actual platform type. Client wants it just for looks and not be able to actually get up to the platform. The home is being built overlooking a bay. I guess the main question is how to get CA to recognize the space as a platform.

5 hours ago, Chief_QA said:

In any view that you would like to display other plans, just click on the floor number in the toolbar and it will open that dialog.

 

This is the coolest thing I have ever seen in my life. I had no clue this was a feature. Wow, lots more to learn on the program.

On 2/14/2024 at 6:01 PM, Chief_QA said:

You can show multiple plans in one camera view using the reference display.  You can even position them as well.

 

Is this done in a camera view? Can you let me know where to fins this? It sounds like what another program in the past calls external referencing.