RGWhite

File "notice to owner" with the clerk of the court when you and client sign a contract. This will help you preserve your lien rights if the client does not pay.

I also build boathouses. What I have done is to make the walls invisible and then build the roof. After that I make pilings out of solids and make them as long as required per job. I then space them accordingly, one at a time. I also make my own headers for the roof. There is no auto build that I have found that would work, as the construction of each is unique. You can work with the floor for the deck structure.

Have you tried "Defaults".........Dimensions............Setup? There is a reach DBX to adjust there

Look at the difference between living area (outside at perimeter) and the room area polyline (inside of room)

How close is this wall from the property line? or other buildings? Where I work they not only look at the wall rating but the soffit and fascia rating.

Generally the I beam would be drilled with holes to accept the wood so as to bolt the two. Number and size of holes to be determined by the uplift. Are you trying to design a moment frame? As far as flashing, it appears from the picture you posted that it (framing) is tight under the roof overhang.

Thanks for the response. So this will run the calculations for both the house and the addition. How would I separate the two?

Working with Rescheck and was wondering how you handle additions. The addition will have it's own mini split system so therefore will not be mechanically tied to the house. I did an as built and labeled the existing rooms "unconditioned" thinking it would not figured in the energy calc. I did not put insulation in the existing walls. The addition had all the insulation. When I exported the plan to Rescheck it had all the walls and I could tell which ones were the addition by the insulation. It was more work deleting the existing. Is there a better way to export an addition so that only the windows, walls of the addition show on the recheck.

Your problem is not much different than mine. I did a lot of timber framing. I created my on bents, connecting girts, purlins, etc. I also made all the individual parts. Very time consuming but when done I could breeze through it.

I just use cad lines at 30/60 deg. It was a pain to make schematic fittings the first time but I put them in the library and now just paste them in place.

This does not work in the material list when changing from fir to SPF. Only in the Framing Schedule?

Look for any locked layers.

I'm in Jacksonville. Contact me and I can help.

Great!! I'm still feeling my way through some of the macros, It works. Thanks

I made a slab. Tried both label with leader lines and a text box

The macro is grayed out. I imported it from the down load but I get an Evaluation Error. Did I do something wrong.

Great! Will send$$

Thanks Joe

Yes that look nice

Thanks!

____'____" Just feet & inches, rounded to 1/2"

When getting the perimeter of an object such as a slab I get the dimension in inches. Is there a way to get it in feet?

Did you "Block" the image? After blocking the library icon should come up

Yikes!! Is that the main house?

There have been several post on this in the past. Basically I use a a window with fixed glass and change the glass with glass block and then change the size of the glass block to look like screen. Of course adjust the size of the window per opening.