Floor And Wall Framing Cross Section

Cross sections also show window details such as dimensions exact locations with respect to interior walls and their heights relative to the ceiling or floor.

Floor and wall framing cross section. Typical framing sections included in this bulletin are the following typical cross section views. If you were to draw your cross section detail by hand using the cad tools alone you. Cross sections in general do not show finished wall or flooring materials aside from sections that specifically detail wall or floor layers. Instead lengthy components like walls and floor platforms are truncated using a break line.

Score the shims with a utility knife and snap them off flush with the plate. If you have not yet built framing select build framing build framing from the menu and generate the types of framing that you wish to show. A section diagram will show in great detail what the foundations walls floor systems and roof are made of and how they re made. Nail the end studs to framing in the existing wall.

From the menu to toggle colors off. To display framing in a 3d view open the plan in which you would like to display framing in a cross section elevation view. A section is literally that a cross section diagram of a given part of the house showing exactly what goes where. As you shim and plumb each section of wall drive 16d nails through the top plate into the framing with a hammer or nail gun.

Fasten the bottom plate by driving 16d nails through it into the floor.