Designing a cape cod roof bearing on 1st floor walls.
2nd floor inset to make 1st floor roof.
Aug 25 2016 are you looking for a way to connect the second or third story of your home to your backyard with a deck or other outdoor space.
Choose this option if you want to create a new top floor with exterior walls generated directly over the exterior walls of the floor below.
Do you think your upper 2 floor loads are very heavy that can not be taken by ground floor.
Raising and lowering roof planes.
In the new floor dialog select make new blank plan for the 2nd floor.
If you choose the first option you will want to move or delete any undesired walls on floor 2 once it is automatically generated such as walls for a.
So if i add the floor i loose the roof.
Next come to fo.
I mean make the 1st floor roof bigger in all directions just to exaggerate its shape and then test joining it to the 2nd floor roof.
Copy just the 2 roofs into a new rvt and try posting.
Why do you are interested in reducing 2nd floor load in rcc structure.
Manually drawing a dutch gable roof.
Well you ve come to the right spot.
Matching roof ridge elevations.
So my question is is there a way where i can just have the system lift the 2nd and 3rd floors up a level to become the 3rd and 4th and i can just build in the new 2nd floor.
Your second floor is likely too hot now because of inadequate insulation between it s ceiling and the roof and you re getting a lot of radiant penetration.
Typically load bearing walls align from floor to floor though there are ways to accommodate offset loads.
It is possible however to duplicate all objects on a floor using the edit area tool.
I have a feeling that we don t have the capability yet but i thought i d check.
It s really difficult to get r 40 in a cape without doing spray in foam.
That should have been done as a standard part of the second floor conversion if the conversion is recent.
In your example it is quite possible to make the exterior walls.
Designing a cape cod roof bearing on 2nd floor walls.
Derive new 2nd floor plan from the 1st floor plan.
As far as my knowledge goes the above two reasons are just useless.
To copy a floor plan to another level create a new floor by selecting build floor build new floor from the menu.
Creating openings in roofs for manually drawn dormers.