wood building drawing grids
wood building drawing grids
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Where is the most practical location to set building grids on plan drawings for a wood bearing wall building, and why? Centerline of wall, face of stud (exterior/interior), face of sheathing, other? The building will have both exterior and interior walls.






RE: wood building drawing grids
RE: wood building drawing grids
I have always set grids at face of studs, for both exterior and interior walls. The architect on this project usually sets interior grid lines at centerlines of interior walls. Just wanted to see if anyone had any good reasons for doing it either way.
RE: wood building drawing grids
Their argument: We need to set corridor widths, clearances and simple-finish distances to line up with ceiling grids, doors, etc. If we dimension to face of stud, we have to add small, cumbersome dimensions to our drawings and that's a lot of work.
Our argument: Dimensioning to the face of gypsum board or to dryvit is ridiculous as the contractor must first build the studs and footings in the first place. If you give him the finish distance, he has to do field math with fractions to lay out his walls.....pretty risky.
Architects design spaces....engineers design the material that encompasses the spaces....we each come from two different directions and thereby tend to want two different means of getting to the finish line.
RE: wood building drawing grids
RE: wood building drawing grids
RE: wood building drawing grids
If no architect is involved, then we usually use face of wall or centre lines of columns for gridlines and dimensions. For small lumber framed residential projects, I've often come across plans where dimensioning is to centreline of partitions and bearing walls.