Haunch

I'm not sure how to display this in CA but I know what you trying to do... The way this is done in reality is you leave the larger gap on the sides and the top of the wall and you use longer nails... you leave at least 2" space on top and sides, because the movement will definitely exceed 1/2-1". When the trim being installed, you nail the casing into the jamb only and not into wall. this way everything can be moved with the floor movement.

 

Here is floating wall detail, I think you better off just making a Cad detail in CA instead of trying to frame that way using CA

 @Greg_NY61 ... the image you posted is exactly what framing a door with floating walls looks like.  I was looking on how to show the "floating" aspect of a wall in CA. With the expansive soil in Colorado, walls in the basement over a slab are required to be hung from the joists, then secured to a pressure treated board nailed into the concrete slab using spikes through the footer board of the wall, so when the slab heaves or sinks +-3 inches the slab will not push up on the framed wall and thus pushing up on the joists (and the rest of the house)

For the information of all, I got a response from support, and here is their response:

As a follow-up, I spoke with the head of our Training department, and he advised that he has seen this question before. In that case, what he recommended using a pony wall with the a lower portion of 7 1/2" that was a custom wall type essentially comprised of an air gap with sheetrock on the inside, where the bottom plates and spikes were added manually (his example image attached). Again, keep in mind that this was done in the Premier X7 version, as the tools to accomplish it are not available in the less advanced Home Designer programs.

 

Thank you all for your responses, but support provided the answer I was looking for.  (Originally they suggested I post my question here, but then followed up with exactly how to do it in CA)

Does any of the Chief Architect products provide native support for building floating/hanging walls in the basement? Here in Colorado, it is code to have floating walls in the basement, and am curious if there is an easy way to depict floating walls using any of the Chief Architect products. If there is not a native way to do so, has anyone had any luck displaying the framing elements of a floating wall?

Similarly, is there any product version that can help display locations for fire blocking of floating walls? Fire blocking is another code requirement here in CO.