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In that same camp I would say but curious P, what layers do your attic walls end up on? Walls, Attic? Or another layer. Thanks

Curious about how your wall def's are handled. In a stock Residential Template both Interiors and Exterior walls are on the same layer 'Walls, Normal'. I prefer having 2 layers 'Walls, Normal INTERIOR' and 'Walls, Normal EXTERIOR' so I can turn the different layers off/on to display either INTERIOR or EXTERIOR walls separately or together. Nice for ref sets but not sure it's the best for all walls. Curious, do you all use just the single layer 'Walls, Normal' or have Interior and Exterior Walls on separate layers?

Nothing more than I just find the approach interesting.

Very interesting approach Robert.

Same stair tool for the landing. With the stair tool selected just click between the stairs.

Ya think?

I think you just need to align them properly. Assuming this is the look you want?

No truer words. I don't do much PBR and don't use RTRT so those non-improvements don't really affect my daily work flow. And as with every new release there's features I'll never use, features I didn't know I needed, and features that I've wanted for a while.

I am seeing that X14 has many new wall framing detail tools. Headers, king and trimmer counts, and more, all sent to layout for a framer to reference. I don't think a framer in the filed would kill a designer if there were wall framing details in the plan but he would certainly ignore most of them and frame the wall properly. And if you do use wall framing details to direct the framer, who checks on the framing in the field? Would you check against the framing details? Or check it against standard and competent framing standards and practices?

From Tech Support, Hello, Thank you for the heads up here, I was able to replicate the issue and it appears as though those lookout framing sections are being dropped from the roof plane above. Much appreciate the heads up, unfortunately the only solution right now is to manually adjust those joists, in this case, I group selected them and unchecked Automatic Height and then Raised the height by 24" see attached image for result But I have filed with with the folk upstairs here, so hopefully we can get this addressed before too long. Again, thank you for the heads up and also for the kind words about the X14 release. In a separate notice I have passed your words onto the development team and the rest of the company. Regards, Kristopher Chief Architect Technical Consultant

Thanks Steve. When I change the wall to an attic wall, delete all framing, then reframe everything, the lookouts still intrude into the adjacent room. Maybe not a bug on your system but I have to turn off roof rafters in the floor overview so those lookouts don't show in the kitchen wall. Again, maybe not a bug but it certainly bugs me. Here's, pic below, the framing after changing the wall, deleting and rebuilding all framing.

Thanks Steve. I'll play around but your solution looks good.

Here's X14 adding lookouts into the adjacent room and no large ridge but some weird roof framing.

See the pic above. Never seen it before and X13 doesn't (apparently) use the Ridge Size as the Wall Ledger at least from my experience.

Thanks Dermot sent it in first thing.

Here's X13 with a large ridge and the proper sized rafters. Looks like (I think) it should. Never seen a rafter up against a wall that matched the ridge until now. Bug? Dunno. Sent it in.

I do, still don't know how a template could affect a plan in the way shown. Did you look the plan over? And that last video? If you don't see the problem in the posted plan on your system, using your templates, then perhaps that's the problem? Sent it in to tech support. Awaiting comment.

No issues here. Keep us postsed.

Looks like the condition in unique to the plan I posted above. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RD4R4YxljTk

THANK YOU. How would the template affect the roof framing? I did spec the ridge at 5 x 14 (ish) and that large side joist seems to mimic that large ridge beam. Not sure how I could frame the roof that way if I tried. Does the plan I posted give any clues? Perhaps there's new setting I'm missing?

Small but niggling suggestion.

SO, SO helpful Steve. VERY much appreciate your help and yeah I seem to run into so many anomalies like this and spend a lot of time trying to resolve. Thank you again for taking your time to post.

Call out arrows - nice.

Here's a roof framing bug I THINK I found. User error always suspect and only post to see if others experience the same thing? https://www.dropbox.com/s/10qkr4knn6vuqp6/ROOF BUG.plan?dl=0

Wanted to have a thread dedicated to all things X-14 which I think is a BRILLIANT release. There are so many new features it's really hard to keep up. Linked details - wow. That new text leader tool - awesome. Callouts can now have different arrow styles - LONG time coming but so, so nice. Way too much to list but nice job Chief. Really nice job.