Getting Started: Adjusting Framing for Irregular Ceiling Heights

[CarlosVega82]

Hey everyone! I’m starting a new project that features a ceiling with varying heights—not the usual flat plane. I’ve tried using the auto-frame tool, but it’s not lining things up smoothly when the ceiling drops mid-wall.

A couple questions I’d love help with:

1. Tips for managing auto-generated framing when ceiling heights change in one room?

2. What’s the best approach for clean transitions—manual editing or tweaking wall defaults?

3. Any pitfalls I should watch out for with irregular framing in Chief Architect?

[GeneDavis]

What's irregular?

 

i go through the entire project imagining it fully framed, room by room, roof plane by roof plane, and focus first on all the structural  bearings.  Walls, beams, columns, posts.  
 

Ceiling framing comes last, but i've already considered it in deciding whether ceiling framing bears on top wall plates or if a wall balloon-frames through.

 

Post your plan, stripped of everything not structural, so we can see what you've got.  No cabinets, no appliances, no plumbing fixtures.  Just all the walls, platforms, roofs, with all the window and door openings.