Top Plate or Not Top Plate

[Steve_Nyhof]

This has driven me crazy for years. I set my top plate to 5'-10 5/8", and yet I have this extended wall that when walls are added, it puts on a double, double top plate...

 

Plan

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Z6qTE_o1odZ4mgvV1zPKWrDvzXyg7L25/view?usp=sharing

 

Thoughts?

Thank you

Steve

[robdyck]

The upper plates are from the attic wall which is building using a gable wall framing method...studs on the plates below with 2 top plates.

For truss roofs, we rarely need framed gable walls. You can either delete all the attic wall details or replace the attic walls with a customized attic wall that doesn't have any framing layers.

[robdyck]

With auto wall framing, there is no way to override this during design development ans Chief auto builds attic walls matching the walls below.

During plan completion, I turn off auto wall framing and I either replace the attic walls with my own gable wall or I delete all the attic wall details form the project browser.

I have a few gable wall types to match cladding thickness of siding, stone, and brick.

[Steve_Nyhof]

Thank you, Robert! That makes sense. I have deleted the walls from the attic on occasion, but sometimes it is not at clean as this plan. Seems to me we should have an option to turn off wall framing for attic walls if we want. Suggestion 20,001

 

Edit: If you have attic walls generated from a main floor roof and also from a second floor roof, that is when you cannot delete the walls from the attic level, and where turning off framing for attic walls would be nice.

 

[robdyck]

Another seemingly simple option would be for Chief to provide a default Attic Wall type. You'll notice my gable wall is setup to coordinate with a gable end truss...I also don't want 5.5" of framing, cad insulation boxes, or drywall in my trussed attic!