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Do it, maybe by then X8 will be out and we can share war stories.

Next year might be better. But let's not forget.

Joey, you set it up when you are ready. maybe for a few nights one weekend. Absolutely we can chip in $$ for the essentials. This could really be fun. When I was up in Michigan in May, and we hooked up with Jim Lawes, he took us out on his boat on Torch Lake, it was a real treat. That sounds great Joey, I am up for it.

Alan, do you think we can hold the UGM on Joey's boat? Chevy Suburban, isn't that a classic SUV about the size of an M-1 Abrams Tank?

Great idea, hey Joey, can I bring something?

WAIT A MINUTE !!!!!!!!.......... ski party at Joey's place next winter....... it's not Utah, but it is close to home. Hey Joey, are you on the slopes?

If you put on our night vision goggles, the issue is quite clear.

Hey, you might make a good lawyer, all they do it look up precedents. Nice job. Maybe I will hire you if I need a lawyer... god forbid.

I am glad you are not my lawyer. You can read it as many times as you want, but if you bought it on your IPAD, you cannot give a copy away to all of your friends. I think once the builder has bought the plans, he can build it as many times as he wants on THAT LOT for THOSE clients, but he can't build it on different lots for different clients. If I bought the movie "Gone with the Wind" since I paid for it, can I copy it over and over and resell it? Robert, you lose this one.

Nuts, openings could be a problem.

Yep, that could be a problem.

Thanks Jon. What I expected. This might work..... I want to show lower wall of pony wall in plan. Upper wall is 2x4 wall, lower wall is 8" cmu, I show upper wall in plan, for 2x4 wall I add 4" no opening material wall with the cmu hatching. That will represent lower wall. We now can see lower wall in plan. Few minor problems, but could work for the most part.

I'm not in office. Open new plan, create new wall, 8" thick , material is OPENING NO MATERIAL. draw a 20' x 20' house. Take a vector pic and a render pic, please post pics. I am curious as to what we will see. Thanks.

I opened Alan's plan, I built the framing, adjusted the thickness of exterior finish so the blocking will show and you can see by the picture what I got. Note the blocking is OUTSIDE of the wall and not stacked on top. Solution, minimize the blocking so it does not show and then edit as needed to show blocking on top of wall in lieu of outside of wall.

Alan, I am glad you brought this up. Somehow in the last 10 years I have gotten by. But it is silly that we cannot have the vertical blocking stack on top of wall and have exterior finish go up to roof sheathing. A very very common occurrence. It seems to me that on an occasion I stumbled on a solution but I did not study it and I do not know if I could replicate the solution. Glenn's method seems like we are giving something up, i.e. the blocking and a sub fascia. Recently I saw a post by Perry whereby he had a solution. Hopefully he will pipe in with his solution......... if he ever gets out of bed the darn slug.

I can have ceiling, I do need to balloon thru, I do need to have zero subfascia and I think I need zero blocking. See plan. A lot more work than it should be. alan wall to roof zero block zero sub fascia with ceiling.plan.zip

I think Perry had a different method. Maybe Perry will pipe in and explain how he does it.

This did not work for me. What do you think I am doing wrong. See attached plan BBB GLENNS SIDING TO SHEATHING PLAN 1.plan.zip

Doug, I sent it into Brian. It is uploading now, if you guys do not get it, leet me know and I will send again.

I was working on a plan. I imported a DWG file drawn in ACAD. Not a DXF but a DWG, I am not sure if it makes a difference. I am going to trace the DWG and turn it into a CA file. I noticed once I imported the DWG file, a plan save took about 20 seconds, (plan file is 10.7 MB). So I quit CA and restarted and now the saves take 2 seconds. The point is..... maybe after importing a DWG file, we must quit CA and restart and maybe it cleans out the memory. I can not explain the whys, but this worked for me.

Absolutely, I do it all the time.

This vids for you Joey...... http://youtu.be/_KvReHNcm5I

Okay, I gave you one.

Let me ask you this, why call it a garage. Why not call it a bedroom and drop down 6". IOW, what is the difference between a bedroom and a garage each dropped down 6"? Maybe the fact that the garage will not have a finish floor yet the bedroom will. Quick answer to your question, yes, what you suggested should work.

I know, sounds dumb now. There is or was a point. I assume you know that joists break over a bearing beam, and are continuous over non bearing beam, so I am assuming I ran into a situation where I wanted that option for a floor joist. But I cannot think of an example now.