Any way to stop the deck from going through the exterior wall and attaching itself to the home's framing?

[DK7000]

When using the railing tools or deck edge tools, it likes to automatically attach the deck through the exterior wall (which is brick) right into the framing structure of the house.

Manually moving the railing or deck edge/beams away from the homes framing and lining it up to the edge of the exterior brick wall is simply ignored and automatically snaps back into the homes framing structure.

 

Is there a way to disable this?

Or to tell it its being attached externally to the brick wall and not the framing of home?

 

I dont even understand why this is even a automatic function. Decks are always stand alone objects that added to the exterior of the home, and not to the framing.

[SHCanada2]

decks here are attached to the rim board via a ledger board.

 

..I havent tried it but did you try running a deck railing along the house, parallel to the house wall? CA does not like walls really close together, so not sure how close you could get it

[PitMan71]

5 hours ago, DK7000 said:

Manually moving the railing or deck edge/beams away from the homes framing and lining it up to the edge of the exterior brick wall is simply ignored and automatically snaps back into the homes framing structure.

Can you post your plan or a picture of what you are referring to? I pulled up chief to try and recreate what you are talking about.... I do see where the wall connects through the brick, but its a transparent connection and doesn't seem to affect the way the connection appears.

 

The reason the deck railing is connecting in that way is because it's connecting its main layer to the brick wall main layer which is the framing. In order to get the deck railing to connect to the brick itself is to make a copy of your brick wall type and in the new wall type moving the brick materials from the exterior layers to the main layer in the wall type.  Might end up looking like the attached pic. 

 

Caution: This may work as you intend, but it could cause unintended issues. Either way, I think it's worth giving a whirl.