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How many of you guys have done MEP's with CA? I have a set of plans I did of a 2000 SF office build (4 office space and conference room with 2 half baths, lobby and a kitchenette). Very simple structure with one plumbing wall. I have already done the electrical and have structural engineers I can call to stamp the my structure, Because this is on a newly zoned small "commercial lot" this changes everything. "MEP's are required by a professional OR a competent designer" in the planning commission guys own words. We have the tools in CA I just don't know how far into detail you have to go with hvac, electrical & plumbing. Anyone wanna quote me to do it who knows Alabama code? I will message you the plans if interested. Stripped down version of plan below......all 2x4 wall stud structure with 9' ceilings on mono slab. This is for an investment build for myself. I am demoing the current old structure on the lot as we speak to make room for the office and parking lot.

I had to adjust to this issue and manually adding faucets to the sinks.

Haha I feel your pain and this was helpful too. I just got used to fixing them all th etime.

Yeah, I guess I could do that or 45 deg the wall. I was just lining the upper wall up with the lower wall.

Correct, I had it labled as unfinished but even with calling it an attic space it is still sticking out of the valley.

How do you guys fix this? I have attic space floor framed and sheathed for storage and it sticks thru the valley. I have it as "unfinished" room type.

I figured it out for those who ever have this problem. Don't delete footers along the footprint of the home and forget to add them back. There was nothing separation the living & porch space on the fdn....DUH

I will check....I think that gets updated automatically when you do the -4" floor setting.

I am about ready to pull my hair out and I am already a bald guy. In default settings my default floor level (one story home) is set to a 10' ceiling height throughout and floor height @ 0. I manually click my porch spaces & input the them to -4" floor level for the step downs in the foundation. Why does the porches sometimes keep resetting to 0 floor height or certain rooms inside set themselves to -4". I have fought this over the years but it has been quite a while since this has kept happening on one of my projects. It's like that game whack a mole in the room spaces haha......

This is a block stem wall by the way. I create these all the time with a rowlock feature and it is just not cooperating this time.

Yep, I may just have to do that. I was trying to avoid it. Thanks!

plan file link....... https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Mbo_8sML34dGUvglwzw9GtHtCZKFRgW2/view?usp=drive_link

Thanks guys let me see if I can compress the file.

I like to use sills on my stem wall tops. I am helping a fellow CA user (their plan file) in the area and we all use settings differently. When I build the fdn the caps are not sitting on the stem wall tops. I do not have the option to vertical and horizontal settings. Any advice what this may be?

Thanks guys! All good info.....

No X18 yet!

Is there ANYTHING else in the library for board & batten besides what we all have, CA board & batten and James Hardie products. Hardie B&B is too close together and looks like metal and CA B&B just doesn't stand out as well in renderings. See below, one is my file and the other is my same file I threw into chatgpt. The battens are way better in chatgpt and more appealing to send clients. Not a big deal though, just asking. I love CA, don't get the wrong idea.

I use railing walls and turn off everything except the top and bottom handrails then manually build everything else. I use polyline solids for the screen and paint it with a screen texture. For the door I use a glass panel door and paint the glass with the same screen texture.

I need to dress mine up but it got the point across I see. Glad between all the answers here it helped you.

Here is one I have in work.....base cabinets are the way to go..........and walls under stairs to form the enclosure. Client wants a space to lie down and read books. I gave him 7' of cushioned area.

Do you call out the radius on these roof plane types? I do every time I do them BUT wonder if it is more of a visual thing for the framer and he care less about radius callout?

Nothing changed since my last save. This is a tray on the 2nd floor. I ended up fixing it by unchecking "recess into ceiling" and it still pushed up into attic space. Oddly enough the other 2nd floor trays I have in other spaces worked with recessing it. Very weird. I found where I posted about this situation last fall but nothing got resolved from it.

Thanks DB!

Hey guys, I built a tray ceiling with no errors and even framed the ceiling with no errors. Upon opening the file today it says this. Any tips?

If it ever does take over, it was fun while it lasted.