TheMadCadder

I've always referred to the foundation plate as the sill plate and the bottom plate of a wall as the sole plate. This is the technical code definition although many people in the trades use them interchangeably. FYI...there is no code that specifically requires a 2x6 wide sill plate although other factors such as anchor bolt spacing, doubling rim joists offsetting joist bearings on sills that would naturally require a sill plate wider than a 2x4.

Hmm...well, if I get married and then we divorce, she gets half. So...at least I get to own half of what we created together. But if I marry a new version of HD...I get nothing if we break up. I won't even be able to 'visit' the 'kids' we raised together. CA/HD gets sole custody of all that we created together and I can't even see them on the weekends. I'd have to pay a monthly fee to see my own 'children'. The only good thing to come from that sort of relationship is that I won't have to pay to support all those 'kids' after we break up. But. Then again, I get no visitation rights either so... No.

I just designed one of these last week...A-frame style. it was rather tricky getting everything to play nice together. I followed the tutorial Scott linked above and while it did produce an A-frame structure, I did not like the results and abandoned it for this one below, which worked well for me. https://chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com/topic/35255-video-lesson-how-to-create-an-a-frame-house/ The trick I found was where he lowers the roof using the 'height off plate' box. It is labeled a bit different in my 2025 version but worked the same. Essentially lowering the roof to the floor level by a minus 'roof over wall' value equal to your wall height. I have my rafters set on a 2x flat plate on the floor so mine is minus wall height less 1-1/2", The guy uses less 3 inches in his example tutorial video. Below are pics of the model I created. Client was very pleased.

Hey @y-g-m-n, I really appreciate your taking the time to reply, that was the issue and it is now fixed on my end! Plans are off to the engineer.

HELP!! Project file attached. So I've recreated this model from scratch, exterior only, trying to get around this issue. New model file attached...same wall. Upper floor windows in the rear wall wont cut their openings. I've isolated the issue...vaguely...to setting part of the space inside to "Open Below" in room definitions... Any help would be greatly appreciated as I now need to deliver these plans and I need the 2d elevations to do that. 850 HEIM NEW.plan

My first major glitch...anyone have an idea why the exterior siding shows in this one window in the attached image?

use a cabinet soffit to create a belly band against the exterior wall where you want the exterior siding to transition from one to the other...hide it under the lower roof if you don't want to see it...then you should be able to paint different finishes above and below the belly band. This is how I've been doing it, but I'm new so perhaps others have a better method?

Have you sacrificed a farm animal yet? Back when I was designing roof trusses, any time we had a gambrel roof to design we would gather the design staff and sacrifice a farm animal to divinate the correct pitches and heights to use... just kidding...or am I?

Go to Default Setting (The little Wrench button) > Floors & Rooms > Floor Levels> 1st Floor > Change Relative Height to your new wall height. OMG I've learned enough now to answer a question!!

I run 2 computers side by side...one with Win11 and all the new software I use, like HD. Then I have my old reliable Win7 work machine that runs certain critical software that won't run on the newer OS' like my AutoCAD. I've been working this way since about 2013. Not the solution you were after I'm sure but it does work well for these sorts of issues.

Thanks!

I've been all through the defaults and do not see where this is possible to do...where in the defaults would I set this? Ok...after a bit of experimenting I've solved the first issue... By setting the default window label to "specify label" and then typing in the following in the dbx; <carriage return> <carriage return> %automatic_label% I get an automatic label that is located just outside the exterior wall as I would like...however, the <carriage returns> appear to act as text (not transparent) and now hides the window in plan like its "whited out"... Suggestions?

It means I do not use opening schedules in my plans and so it is not a solution to the problem I am working on.

schedules are de' debbil

I really hate to have to do that for every opening...on every plan...and every time an opening changes. There's got to be a default setting for openings text position...or is that only a CA thing?