Exposed Ceiling Beams Revisited--Car Decking

[Tommy Blair]

Zowie,

You are probably not going to have the best of two worlds here. Yes, you can show exposed framing on both floors. Will it mess up the cross section?...yes. You would have to fix the cross section in cad.

A quick run through for X1. Build your two floors and put a roof on the 2nd floor. When building floor framing, at 1st floor tab, build framing for floor 2 and then build roof framing. You do realize that once you build framing, it stays where it's at until you rebuild framing right? Then, to see roof rafters, open 2nd floor room dbx>remove ceiling. Open roof planes and in general tab change rafter depth to 1" or whatever. Take a camera view and in the layer options for that camera> turn on roof framing. The rafters are now exposed. Do the same with the 1st floor except you'll have to go to the 2nd floor room dbx and in the structure tab, change the floor structure to 1 or 2 or whatever. Leave sub floor at 3/4". Take a camera on the first floor and once again open the layer options for the camera and turn on floor framing. This is how I do it. Yes, a cross section will not look correct but you can fix it how you want it in a cad detail.