Changing First Floor Level To Joist Hangers

[Nicinus]

I am in the midst of working on a design and have come to realise that I would prefer a lower first floor in relation to ground, and need to change to joist hangers instead of being on sill plate. How would I accomplish this the easiest?

 

My first thought was to change the defaults for room structure, but besides being uncertain how to define joist hangers on a level, all options are greyed out?

 

As a side note, how can I select all rooms on a level without clicking them one by one?

 

[lbuttery]

on the framing dbx for floor 1 set "rim joists"

then set the width and type etc

 

this should apply to all rooms on that floor

 

this is a new feature for X6

so I haven't used it yet

 

Lew

[Nicinus]

Thanks Lew,

 

I didn't quite get that. Do you mean in the 'Build Framing...' dbx? I tried removing trim joists but nothing changed in section.

 

Could you possibly elaborate a bit on the steps involved. I haven't actually used the framing tools yet except for quickly trying some of them out.

[Nicinus]

You meant 'Framing' in default settings, right? I think I'm slowly getting there. In default settings under 'Foundation' I can check 'Hang 1st floor plattfor inside foundation walls' which seems to do the trick. I now just have to figure out how the treated sill plate and rim joists affect this, I guess. Thanks again.

[lbuttery]

I wasn't sure since I haven't used this feature

 

just remember that it was mentioned in the "What's new"

 

glad you got some of it working

 

Lew

[builtright3]

Not sure if this helps but don't disregard the floor settings in the defaults. When I was making those changes that you are making now I was having trouble also. When I made changes for framing in the floor defaults everything worked after that.