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I share your pain on this and interested to hear feedback.

When I stopped to really think about it, I realized I was working the software against itself. The highlighted portion is the second floor over the bottom. I had the entire rear porch at 9'. When I changed the portion of the rear porch below the second floor to 10' it seemed to save changes throughout. Man, talk about a headache.............we shall see.

Thanks Gene, good catch but no this is a seperate similar home. I am going to check into the 2nd floor defaults like you mention. That makes good sense. As far as attaching plan files, what's the easiest way? Link to a cloud server?

Howdy guys, question on different ceiling heights. In my default settings the first and second levels are set at 9'-0" ceilings. However in the middle wing of the home they want 10' ceilings. Not so much a problem on doing that. However, every time I reopen the file to continue working on the home the 10' section always goes back to 9' and I have had to select the spaces and manually change the settings back under the structure tab. It is getting old very fast. Can you tell me what I am doing wrong? Pic below, the second floor sits directly above the 10' section so you can imagine the floors sink down when the bottom floor ceiling reverts back to 9'. I don't want to keep changing it just to get by. I'd like to learn the correct way. Thanks.

Well after all the talking with the client we decided to make the ceilings 10’ which made my job a lot easier. Thanks everyone, I am sure I will need to come back to this thread sooner or later if this topic is brought up again with new jobs.

thanks, I was trying to avoid that because they wanna keep the 9' ceilings and then go up with the tray.

Hey guys, second floor of the home has either i-joists or webbed trusses. I am having requests for tray ceilings under the second floor. Is this possible and can you even cut into floor members to do this? I mean if I am using 16" i joists or trusses and the minimum tray depth is 12" that doesn't leave much structure.

Thanks guys, yes @mtldesignsframing is always built by the time i do story poles. I hear ya @tundra_dweller, I can do it manually but I also like to figure out issues so it is just one push of a button to dimension my elevations. I mean, in reality all I have been doing is gripping the highest header line and deleting it but it just seems like I am working against CA that way. I will try to pm the link @robdyck

Been having this happen a lot lately. Does anyone know why it is labeling two header heights.

When I did it your way, nothing changed soffit wise so I had to outsmart it. Nonetheless, I looks great now. Yes sir, Daphne. We didn't get s single drop of rain from Helene suprisingly.

You were right, I deleted that "5 1/2" purlins" under the surface dbx and made the structure 5 1/2" purlins. It brought the roof down 5 1/2" so I then I used the transform/replicate object and moved in up 5 1/2" in the z direction and boom, it's perfect. May not be the proper way or best way but it worked and I can move on.

This is where I was thinking the mistake was but haven't investigated yet! I know it has to be a simple fix.

That is what I am saying. Subfascia is 2x6, see below in red, and I have the eave sub fascia turned off. Regular fascia is 2x8 directly below what I circled. That is way more than 1 3.4" gap too. This is why I am puzzled.

It is....the actual fascia, eave and gable, is 2x8. Is that what you mean?

Hey guys, I am doing another pole barn style home (even though I was gonna quit doing them, this may be my last). 2x6 purlins on scissor trusses. How can I raise my soffits? Pics below to explain.....

Yep. Added a pretty cool rafter tail to em.

That's a good idea, thanks.

Is there a way to remove the structure from a balcony like pictured below to expose the floor structure? I know you can do it in the framing plans but the actual hardie board closure material is what needs to be gone. The balcony was built with railing walls. internet mine

Dude, that worked awesome. Learned something new.

I tried that but a warning came up that I would lose it. I didn't move forward with the command after that. Thanks DB!

Hey guys, I wasn't paying attention to the level I was on when I cut the cross section. After spending much time labeling the materials I realized I was on level 2 and not 1. Now when I uncheck "display on all floors" the section cut arrows are not on level 1 where I need it. Any way to move it down without losing work?

Got any vids or links to vids on this?

Thanks guys, I have actually never tried cabinets and soffits with molding but will look into it.

Hey guys, I think there was someone here a few years back showing how to change columns. I like the one shown below but not with the panels. Can we take those out somehow? I could be wrong on this and maybe he was showing how to revise the column top and bottom.

I agree with everything you said. Maybe the reason is that anytime else they mitered it could very well be that I was doing a deck off the back of the home. Something to definetly look into. In this case it is a porch made out of railing walls. As far as the overlapping and making sure all three stair had identical settings, I tried all that. I even tried to connect some new stairs away from the home in blank space and still nothing.