Wood Wall - Jack/King at each side of windows

[JJMota]

Hi all,

 

I'm new to designing wood wall panels on Chief Architect and I have a specific type of wood wall that is giving me a hard time. It has two windows that are very close to each other, so they have one and only header for both windows and the jack/king assemblies for each side of the window are different. Please see picture attached.

It would be (2) jacks and (1) king at the exterior side and (1) 2x6 jack and (1) 1/2" plywood filler at the interior side - for each window.

The thing is that this situation happens along almost every exterior wall. All units have this type of exterior windows at the North and South side  of the building. Getting this fixed manually will take a lot a time.

 

My questions is: I know that the software Mitek Sapphire has an option of choosing a different type of jack/king assembly for each side of the window - left or right. Is that possible in Chief Archiect?

 

Thanks,

[Kbird1]

4 minutes ago, JJMota said:

My questions is: I know that the software Mitek Sapphire has an option of choosing a different type of jack/king assembly for each side of the window - left or right. Is that possible in Chief Architect?

 

Not as far as I know for Auto Framing, but you can open the Wall's Detail  ( set Edit Toolbar for a Black Framing Icon )

and Manually edit the Framing and then in the Wall's DBX on the Structure Tab Check the box for Retain Wall Framing ,

so Auto Framing doesn't change it again.

 

Also if you are new to CA you may or may not want to Set the Window Separation to 0" instead of the Default 2" so you can bump them tight to each other if desired.

(strangely this setting also effects Doors.)

 

Also as you are new here please see this helpful link....

https://chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com/topic/18908-signature-here-at-chief-talk/?tab=comments#comment-155662

 

Mick.