exterior gable dormer side wall

Hello everyone, and happy new year,

I am trying to add exterior side walls to a set of gable dormers. The problem is I need these side walls to start on top of the roof SIP panels (where the red lines show in the attachment), but I don't want them in the interior space of the house (where the red crosses show in attachment).

I will design, eventually, the trimmer rafters that will pick up the weight of the exterior side gable walls.

I have tried a number of things, but nothing has worked out so far. Any ideas?

cheers,

Hi Planer,

I did try, but I think perhaps I input the wrong stuff into the function. I am thinking I might need to play a bit with the set-up for the opening and input of dormer walls?

will keep you posted.

thanx,

Hi Planer,

I see now what you meant. I made an exterior wall in the top floor and then right-clicked on properties to change the side wall type to dormer. It worked, but now I am not able to connect the side wall's corner with the dormer gable wall corner.

Also the left side dormer wall in the leftmost dormer is a continuation of the exterior wall from below, broken by the roof SIP panel so i overlapped a dormer wall on top of this exterior wall from below. It works, but I wonder if this is the right way to do it or will I have some unexpected problems later on. Also, I have the same problem connecting the two corners.

When I use the "wall connection options" in the dormer editor it doesn't seem to do anything other than close up the opening in the middle dormer!!

cheers,

Hi,

that is what I don't understand. I created both exterior walls, and dormer walls in TF1...

In any case, what I have done (again, I don't think it is the proper way, but it works) is separate the side walls from the gable wall, and then adjust them another 5.5" to the building outline. In this fashion I get a crisp corner, though the walls are not united.

Planer, how about the question of how I created the side dormer walls? is that the right procedure? (see my previous post)

Cheers,

Hi Planer,

my e-mail is not working at home, i will send it to you first thing in the morning from work.

cheers,

Hi,

I guess I was too tire last night to remember that I don't need to e-mail attachments!!...

Here is the zgb file.
cheers,