TommyJ

16 hours ago, glennw said:

 

Oh, and also uncheck Auto Merge Collinear Walls in General Walls Defaults.

 

 

I'm using x12. That was listed on x14 as a new feature. That's probably why it works for you and not me.

On 5/19/2023 at 6:38 PM, glennw said:

This is a bit messy, but .....

Make the top side of the cmu wall the Main Layer Outside.

Break the cmu wall in the centre of the concrete wall.

Place a cad line either side of the concrete wall where it passes through the cmu wall.

 

 

 

No matter what I do, I can't get the concrete wall to snap to the top of the cmu wall. It always just comes back down to the bottom. I've flipped the wall both ways and tried.

If I break the cmu wall in the center and then drag the concrete wall up, it goes as far as snapping the concrete back down and reconnecting the cmu wall. 

I've currently just have the concrete wall and footer drawn with cad lines completely. I had to hide the cmu footer with a white box. I like this program, but sometimes it drives me bananas.

I'm trying to draw 2 different foundation walls in a 'T' shape. The bottom of the T shape is concrete, the top is CMU. How do I stop the top part of the 'T' from snapping together? I'd like the concrete wall to extend to the top of the T and split the CMU wall into 2 pieces. 

I've tried the 'edit wall intersections'

x12- CA

24 minutes ago, solver said:

 

What's preventing you from doing so?

I would have to calculate the required increase in the top of the wall plate for the proper birdsmouth and adjust the framing. Not a big deal, just its a manual thing that I could mess up, or forget to do. If I dimensioned the wall as it is, when they put the rafters on, it would misalign with the rest of the roof.

7 hours ago, Chopsaw said:

I am not so sure the program will do that automagically.  You may need to manually adjust your framing in the wall detail.

 

Notice that there is no edge line for the lower birdsmouth though.

 

 

Yes, the same room.

Ok, just making sure I wasn't doing something wrong. It's kind of disappointing that it doesn't do it automatically. I want to dimension the exact wall height correctly to assist in a relatively complex framing situation.

3 minutes ago, Chopsaw said:

It looks to me like the wall is too low for a birdsmouth cut.

The height is automatically generated on both walls. It's height is such that the rafter just touches it on the far wall.

I have a basic stick framed single-plane roof sitting on two different walls, one being a couple feet offset from the other. One set of rafters cuts the birdsmouth correctly, but the 2nd wall set doesn't. Any idea what could be wrong?

I've tried both with automatic birdsmouth cuts on and off in the defaults.

6 hours ago, Alaskan_Son said:

 

You're probably doing something wrong then.  If you can SEE the top of your beam and if that line is drawn in the CAD Detail From View, you should surely be able to snap to the line in your CAD Detail From View.  Either copy that line directly, or snap another CAD object to it and then Cut/Copy and PASTE HOLD POSITION (Edit>Paste>Paste Hold Position or Control+Alt+V) your snap reference line back into your elevation view. 

 I get what you're saying to copy and paste the top of the beam back into the elevation. But, if I make any changes, I have to redo the whole elevation. It's a quite a work around, but I guess that gets me limping for now. Thanks for the help.

14 minutes ago, Alaskan_Son said:

To get otherwise inaccessible snaps, I use CAD Detail From View.  Copy a line from that newly created CAD Detail and then Paste Hold Position back into your Elevation View.

I tried that, but I could not snap the line to the top of the beam. I can get it "close" but not exact.

I watched a view videos this morning, and the instructor did a similar thing. She used point to point, and zoomed it to get it "close". Surely that's not the way? That gives some unknown amount of error, and the bigger issue is that if you change the beam height, the dimension doesn't change with it later.

I'm attempting to dimension the height of a exposed ceiling beam in a elevation view. (Roof beam is perpendicular to the view.) I can't for the life of me get anything to snap to it. Tried the elevation height marker, all the dimensions, drawing a line, etc. Surely there is a way to do this, right? In the previous CAD programs I have used, this is a 5 second task. These are the types of things that waste so much time....

Sorry for the rant. It feels like I design for 10% of the time, and google how to do things 90% of the time.

1 hour ago, DRAWZILLA said:

Sorry but I am not sure what you are saying, the walls will always go to the roof plane, depending on the roof plane height, which is the plate height plus the rafter height going straight up

Here is how the roof plane specs change when I pull the roof back from the flat ceiling area. Why does the "Top of plate" change? Should the top of plate not just be determined by the room specs? (All are set to 97 1/8 ceiling height.)

1 hour ago, DRAWZILLA said:

did you verify all your baseline heights are correct for the roof and ceiling planes?

The 'top of plate' on the roof plane is set to 103 5/16, what the framing is building to (only in the vaulted room). The strange thing is, if I pull the roof plane to go just over the vaulted area, the top of plate changes back to 97 1/8 (and the framing builds correctly). If I extend the roof plane even slightly into the flat ceiling side of the house, the top of plate changes back to 103 5/16. Checking the 'flat ceiling over this room' in the vaulted area has the same effect of correctly the top of plate measurement.

I'm just recreating an existing house plan, which has scissor trusses, 5/12 roof, and 2/12 ceiling pitches. I've created manual roof and ceiling planes accordingly. In this room, I've unchecked the 'flat ceiling over this room' option.

When I build the framing, the top plates on one side of the room are 6 3/16" higher than the need to be. They extend up into the rafters. The other side is the proper 97 1/8" high. When I check the 'flat ceiling' box, the problem goes away. I've checked that all the rooms have the correct heights.

Any suggestions?