Using automatic and manual framing tools to quickly generate framing for floor and ceiling platforms, walls, and roofs, placing custom beams and support posts, adding bracing and blocking.
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Framing Basics in Chief Architect - automatic & manual framing, openings & headers, wall framing details, floor & roof framing, deck framing, trusses and framing layers / layer sets.
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Generate and manipulate wall framing; set framing member type and size, frame walls with multiple framing layers, add wall blocking in a framing detail.
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Manually draw floor and ceiling trusses or automatically generate joists, specifying joist size, type, and direction.
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Automatically generate stick framing, or manually draw a truss system, setting roof directives for cantilevered, hip, attic trusses, and custom ceiling planes for scissor trusses.
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Placing custom post and beams: how to create custom decorative beams using molding polylines and 3D shapes.
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Generate framing for selected objects without modifying others using the "Build Framing for Selected Objects" edit tool.
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Framing Reference Markers are reference points that specify how to lay out automatically-produced framing.
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The Structural Member Reporting tool can save board sizes as well as pricing.
