djhplanning Posted December 4, 2017 Share Posted December 4, 2017 Any suggestions on how to modify a foundation wall to accept a top chord bearing floor truss? I can not seam to find any information from Chief, knowledge base or forum topics. I just want 1 foundation wall at the front entry to be higher than the rest and have the top chord bearing trusses. The other 3 sides of the house can be conventional bottom bearing floor trusses. Are there any places to set the height of an individual foundation wall higher than the rest of them. In 3D, I've found I can manually adjust the height of the top of the wall but don't know if this is the only way. I also have to manually bring up the bottom of the main level wall as well so the siding show correctly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chopsaw Posted December 4, 2017 Share Posted December 4, 2017 Did you take a look at Shane's test plan ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djhplanning Posted December 5, 2017 Author Share Posted December 5, 2017 Yes, this is what I need to do but it doesn't say how the foundation wall was increased in height to accept the top chord bearing truss in relation to the other 3 lower height foundation walls. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chopsaw Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 Shane may have just done it in 3D and used the tab feature to get an accurate height but I am not quite sure. You would have to send him a PM as he is quite busy but would likely respond as soon as he could. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justmejerry Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 Hang platform should be checked under the wall dbx - structure Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kbird1 Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 Jerry is Right, I was just looking at Shane's Plan...... it then leaves all wall height settings as Default. M. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djhplanning Posted December 5, 2017 Author Share Posted December 5, 2017 Perfect, this is exactly what I was looking for. Thank you all for the help! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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