Inconsistent Fascia Heights on Hip Walls Within Same Room

[DefinedDesign]

Dilemma: Attaching a Garage to an Existing Home
Both the existing house and the connecting room to the garage have identical ceiling heights of 97 1/8”. However, the hip walls on the connecting room are resulting in two different fascia top heights. I need both fascia tops to align with the existing house’s fascia height of 94 5/8”.

 

Grateful for any insight. I’ve triple-checked everything, but I still can’t pinpoint why this is happening.

 

 

 

 

[SHCanada2]

when you build the roofs are you setting the same height eaves checkbox?

 

You could also just raise the roof planes using the transform replicate button, in the Z direction

 

As a note, the fascia heights will be different elevations if the roof pitches are different and eave width are the same, and you do not set same height eaves.

 

Alternatively to raising the roof, you could also change the width of the eave unitl you got the facia elevations to match...but that might not be desirable

[DefinedDesign]

3 minutes ago, SHCanada2 said:

You could also just raise the roof planes using the transform replicate button, in the Z direction

Thank you so much for taking the time to respond! I really appreciate the suggestion—using the transform replicate tool in the Z direction is a great idea. I hadn’t thought of that, and I’m excited to give it a try. Grateful for your help!

[SHCanada2]

i use it all the time because the CA truss heel height can only be set per plan, and not per roof plane

[DefinedDesign]

@SHCanada2 I thought this was going to be the solution, but unfortunately, it raises the top plate. Since the two walls have different fascia heights, this results in mismatched top plate heights. I need both the top plates and fascia to align with the existing house.

 

I’ve confirmed that “Same Height Eaves” is checked when building roofs, and I’ve double-checked all the wall settings and measurements to see if something is off. It’s concerning because I need everything to be accurate for construction drawings.

 

Certainly grateful for any further insight you may have!

[DefinedDesign]

3 hours ago, basketballman said:

As a last, dreaded resort could you not turn view into a cad detail and address it like before we had 3D 

Or just draw a quick cad detail from scratch notating the areas/issues of concern ?

Thank you so much for the suggestion—I really appreciate you taking the time to help. At this point, I’m not looking for a manual workaround. I’m trying to figure out why the software isn’t doing what it should. I must have something set incorrectly, but I can’t find what it is. 

[Mark3D]

Upload your plan it will get you a quicker solution and it will be better for people helping you.

If it is to big compress, it or share with dropbox or others

[SHCanada2]

10 hours ago, DefinedDesign said:

Since the two walls have different fascia heights, this results in mismatched top plate heights. I need both the top plates and fascia to align with the existing house.

see attached with 2 sections, both with same elevations for top plates, then I raise the roofs on the right structure and rebuild the framing. You can see the top plate stays the same

 

I must be missing something, you probably want to post the plan