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Ahhhh I was hoping to avoid that but ok, sounds like a plan to me.

Can we not stretch the grip points on a wall to shape it? I even added a break on both sides and no luck. Trying to achieve the look shown below on a similar home.

Those look a tad larger than simpson H2.5a's. I will research. Very helpful now that I see the squash block.

what type of simpson strapping would be correct?

I barely make the span at 16" o.c..

Thanks guys this has been very helpful.......It has helped me on my last part of the plans and detailing the the exterior wall sections.

I agree on the square cut, you mentioned a good point.

That's a good idea...... the spacer would need to be used for sure.

Is anyone familiar with the sub fascia and fascia material used when I joists are chosen to frame a roof. Below are some screenshots of a cross section and framing overview I did. If 12" i joists are used as shown in my design, then the fascia boards are obviously going to have to be wider. I have a 2x12 sub fascia, but what can be used for the fascia, ripped plywood then paint it? I'm not even 100% positive my lookouts will work at 2x10's. This is a request from the homeowner by the way, I didn't chose this material for rafters.

Arghhhhhh, you just had to bring this up. I literally was just about to use my dell rewards on a new UPS but, of course, I waited too long and they expired and it would have covered 100% of the cost. I was looking at the cyber power UPS.

And I heard through the grapevine he is not done winning either!

Will do. Where would you say room dividers should be used?

How do you guys clean up areas where "room divider" walls are used. When I vault the entry you can see how the drywall doesn't match up and a missing gable wall is needed to close off the vaulted ceiling. I circled the areas I used room divider walls below.

ahhhhhhhh, I forgot to do that! Thanks!

What's up you awesome people. Why are my porch slabs not coming in when I build the foundation? They are both checked monolithic. I am thinking this may be something easy so I'm just going to attach screenshots. Porches are built with railing walls.

I have thought about this same thing. Valuable people here 100%. I try and give back when I can without sounding repetitive from other users.

that looks pretty cool, I can do the 3d shape but thought for sure there would be a setting to get this footer auto built.

yes, I have and when I rebuild the fdn it will default to my exterior wall type which is block with brick veneer.

So, I am trying to finally figure out how to get chief to build interior grade beams (detail shown below) for stem wall foundations with backfill. Chief defaults to either concrete or block stem walls for any interior wall we check to build a footer below. How can I get it to build it like I am describing. I have gotten used to just doing the auto detail command on my cross sections and then manipulating the "fill" of the footer to the shape and size I want but I know there has to be a correct way to do this. See shots below. I am not sure if this is common nationwide but here in Alabama it's the way builders do it. Thanks!

Good info! I watched the video on importing CAD file surveys into chief and my jaw dropped you can actually do that and it slope the land and everything. This piece of property I am asking about in the thread has insane slope.

Very clean site plan! I like your perpendiculars.

Just wondering how you guys pull accurate dims on site plans with odd shaped lots. Do you try and pull a dim from the edge of the home to perpendicular or just straight like shown below? I have done both before. I can imagine when a builder stakes out the home it has to be hard on these types.

I am still on X13 and was wanting to clean this up. I don't plan on going to X14 anytime soon, at least not until the end of the year. I apparently did not export correctly when I went from X12. All my stuff is there but it would be nice to clean it up.

Every since I upgraded to X13, my library has been unorganized. I have learned to adapt to it. If we cannot drag and drop the files back in the correct folders how can this be fixed? I will use this info for when I go to X14 as well. User catalog should only be the symbols I make correct?

learned something new from this!