Hey all-thanks for taking time to look into this. I'm an average Chief Architect user, so any coaching will help.
I have an addition to my house which has a deck over a foundation room. The roof/floor framing between the foundation and deck levels is very complex given the number of framing layers (4), sheathing (2) and EPDM with sloping for water runoff. I'm wondering if those can be represented effectively as actual floor/ceiling structure, or if it's best to just represent in CAD details or possibly as symbols (I know enough to be dangerous here). I'm trying to let CA generate the sill plates and rim joists, which generates the other layers that need to be removed so they don't clutter the manual framing of the foundation room roof and deck floor structure. You'll see in the image of the floor structure material layers panel (attached) that there are 8 material layers. The effort to remove the auto generated framing has me thinking there has to be a better way. Many of the structure defaults are different between the "as built" house and the addition, so I've been getting tangled up switching my defaults (probably not doing correctly). I've set the addition as framing group 2.
I've experimented with deck, balcony and porch room types, but each runs me into a dead end as I try to properly represent the floor/ceiling structure.
I've included some views of my floor structure details along with a camera view from within the foundation room showing some of the manually placed floor joists, but no deck above (yet). You'll also see the project overview image to get an idea the finished look. I did not create detail for the floor/ceiling structures in the overview plan.
Big thanks to those who replied. You confirmed what was starting to become evident-that I was trying to represent something too far outside the scope of CA's design methodology. I also invested in an hour of 1:1 support and got the same advice. It left me a little deflated, but I also realize CA is much more efficient within the scope of building design vs. CAD but my design is pushing the bounds. @JiAngelo-sorry I didn't provide more explanation on the layers. I didn't represent the deck planking in the floor structure, so that led you astray a bit. Below are a couple detail views I ended up creating in Solidworks that better represent the actual layers of the structure (if you're bored-LOL). @johnny Completely understand your advice. It's been one of my worries since inception. My engineer designed the floor structure with an architect backing up for the overall low slope roof design. Deck framing is designed to allow for a certain amount of roof maintenance if/when the time comes. Hell-If I can talk my wife out of putting in a pool, I may allocate the funds to putting a proper room with roof in place of the deck in the next 10years. We'll see.