Just finished my most involved rendering, with quite a bit of nit picky details, and my first time providing structural drawings with the set. Got everything to look as we wanted, but some things were a bit difficult and I wonder if there is a better way...
1. We put false columns on the corners of a sunroom. I placed a full column on the corner and positioned it to cover the corner of the wall. This works for the rendering, but for the plan I needed hide the columns since they were too far off the corner, and show them with linework. I turned off the corner boards, which helped, but the wall has a stone water table. I guess ideally there would be a way to turn off the exterior wall finish for the last few inches of wall? And I still don't want the interior corner of the column showing in the sunroom on the plan. Is there a better way?
2. Do I need to copy my first floor framing onto my crawl space plan to show a first floor framing plan with my crawl space walls, piers, and beams on the lower level?
3. I used wide corner boards and banding to "picture frame" the gaps between the bay windows. It took quite a bit of adjusting to get the look right. Is there a faster way?
4. How do you draw a roof on a "L" shaped building when you want a gable ridge running across the long bod of the house, and another gable over the short section towards the back? I have to draw one roof over the main body, then another over the short leg. That works OK, but from there I always struggle with gable frieze boards, gable vents or windows, hip returns, and sometimes jus getting the wall to show correctly if I have a smaller roof under the gable end. Any idea what I'm doing wrong?
Thanks for any tips or suggestions. pics attached for reference.
Dave