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Does ballon framing fix that rake wall?

Make sure you get a signed copyright release from the original designer before proceeding. Those infringements can be a $100K judgement. Best to you.

X16 beta crashed for me yesterday. (macOS) I double clicked the line tool with a plan and layout file open. I failed to get a screen capture of the error message but it had the word fatal in it so I’m probably a digital felon now public beta means it’s still being evaluated and tweaked, just by a wider and free test environment - us users. I guess you have to decide if there is a feature in X 16 that you would like to have for your current projects and if it’s worth jumping into a beta to get it.

I think David Michael has columns with stone under them like that.

I’d guess that you would make a second floor that is 4 feet tall, ceiling height, and then balloon frame the first floor walls through the ceiling above to get the 12 foot tall walls. I’m not in front of a computer right now so I can’t test that to make sure it’s accurate

I’m in Kitsap county. Crawlspace floor joists are mid span supported by knee walls on continuous footings, post and beams on pier pads, or clear spanned either on the sill plate or hung from it inside the stem wall. Hi “neighbor”

It's been my experience that most counties have that info on their websites. I have different counties saved off to the side and drop in whichever the plan is referencing

Thanks for this thread. My space mouse is amazing in sketch up......and "no joy" in chief. I'm remotivated to try again. Thanks

Maybe you have room to start your stairs 1 tread back at the top. You'd be 1 riser lower at the platform that way. Also you could reduce your treads to 10" and you'd also gain a riser in 10 treads. What is your overall floor to floor height?

You might have success contacting Mr. Larry Belk. He has a huge library of plans online and with online brokers (publishers) and is always helpful if he isn't swamped with work. https://www.larrybelk.com

I d/l'd your zipped plan and tried to help. Your model has all kinds of small issues. Then, when I went to 3D overview....it locked up my mac and crashed it to reboot. Someone else might be able to help.

Lot's of big homes in the south have 10' first floor, 9' second. Furr downs are used quite often to make custom ceilings.

Cheaper to set the regular floor truss high and furr down around the outside to create the boxed effect.

Amazing work, Steve. Thanks for all the work you have into this and for sharing!

In all my time framing, we made the rough opening the called size plus whatever vertical trim was being used to trim out the door so that the final finished rough opening was the actual door size. For example and 8–0 door was actually 8’-3” RO because we used a 2 x 8 to wrap the doors, thus making the final rough opening from finished surface, 8’-0” I’ve never made the framed rough opening the exact door size because then trimming out that opening would be wrong when looking at the garage door. is this how garage doors are framed in your region? It seems I learn something new every day.

Terrain video today

can you open object on the wall you want to change and manually enter the angle you want?

His screenshot is from a mac. No PBR (No Soup for you) yet for apple computers......c'mon Tim Cook

Is 1970 angled cedar siding making a comeback?

Chief has very helpful tech-support people who might be able to walk you through solving this problem for you.

YESSS! You are using the same work flow as I am. Plan views and layout in Chief. Extremely complex and accurate details in Sketchup Pro with Medeek BIM or sometimes no extensions at all. Larry Belk pointed me in the direction of Nathaniel Wilkerson and Nick Sonders.

Hey Cadwork22 I was in Pinedale last summer framing at 7300' elevation. That was fun So the way you want to build that winder will cause people to miss a step or 2 going down the stairs close to the turn side. I know much of WY doesn't require permits or code compliance, but stairs can make or break a house. When you create such a busy winder, it looks like stairs were an afterthought in the design. I hope you can rework your stairs into a single landing or maybe a split landing. Winders should go the way of the dinosaurs.

Layout (.layout file) is like advanced Paper space in AutoCAD. Maybe more like a print / PDF sort and compile tool. Title blocks and standard text goes there. Model space (.plan file) is everything being drawn at 1:1 real-world size. For example, when you send a plan view to a layout sheet at ¼" per foot scale, 6" tall text in plan view becomes ⅛" tall text on the layout sheet. We use 4 ½" tall text most often for 3/32" tall text on the PDFs submitted for permit. Layout is pretty amazing to quickly configure your plan.