What is the best way to do 2x4's layout?

[Surveyor1951]

I want to draw a wall using 2x4's on 16" centers, ie. a 10' wall, 8' high. What would be the best way of doing this? Any help on this would be much apprieciated.

[ReMark]

Draw one 2x4 of the required length. Use the Array command to reproduce the remainder of the 2x4s.

[Dana W]

Are you asking for AutoCAD procedures or framing layout procedures?

[ReMark]

Are you asking for AutoCAD procedures or framing layout procedures?

 

The OP does state: "I want to draw a wall..." so my guess is he hasn't started the actual framing.

[ReMark]

I have a question Surveyor: Are you drawing this is 2D or 3D?

[BIGAL]

Like Dana W a house wall is normally just shown from a plan view as two lines or 4 lines the builder knows he has to put studs at 450mm 16" centres or are you doing an actual timber wall panel drawing ? A bit more info please there are plan wall (multiline) lisp routines available on the forum here.

 

[Dana W]

The OP does state: "I want to draw a wall..." so my guess is he hasn't started the actual framing.

 

Depends on what sort of wall drawing Surveyor is doing.

using 2x4's on 16" centers, ie. a 10' wall, 8' high

And the title of the thread asks "What's the best way to do 2x4s layout?"

 

In plan the wall will just be two parallel lines, but if for some reason Surveyor needs to show stud placement in elevation detail, there's all sorts of stuff to account for. For instance - The end/corner of a wall IS the first 16" o.c. point and the face of the first stud is 15 1/4" from the corner. Get that wrong and all the 4x8 sheathing ends will be flapping in the air. Don't 'array' studs until the corner and the first stud is placed.

 

Having said all that, Surveyor, if you are just doing floor plans, A professional framing contractor doesn't need a drawing of where the studs are. He/she will put them where they belong.

 

We'll discuss whether the walls should be drawn @ rough or finished thickness:? or what effect the joist overlap at the center bearing beam in the floor has on stud placement in the rear wall of the house if you need to know.

 

Thirty years ago, my wife's best girlfriend told her before introducing us, that I would explain why speed has an effect on time and what the doplar effect was, if I was asked "What time is it?":lol:

[ReMark]

I think we've already scared him off. He probably called a carpenter.

[Dana W]

I think we've already scared him off. He probably called a carpenter.

 

Thirty years later, I am wondering why that didn't work the first time.

[ReMark]

Well if Surveyor is doing his own framing too I hope he gets the corners right.

 

Say...does anybody know what time it is? Does anybody really care? Just asking.

[Jack_O'neill]

Well if Surveyor is doing his own framing too I hope he gets the corners right.

 

Say...does anybody know what time it is? Does anybody really care? Just asking.

 

1827Z or 12:27 CST..not that I care

[rkent]

Well if Surveyor is doing his own framing too I hope he gets the corners right.

 

Say...does anybody know what time it is? Does anybody really care? Just asking.

 

25 or 6 till 4

[ReMark]

25 or 6 till 4

 

I just love that song!

 

I'm going to rev up that CD first thing on my ride home this afternoon. LOL

[rkent]

Yeah, me too. I searched on Google and all reports say that the 25 or 6 means 25 or 26 minutes till 4. But I heard an interview with one of the band members years ago and he said that he was looking at a bank time and temp display and it was 25 degrees outside and it was 6 minutes till 4, it alternated between the temp and the time, hence the 25 OR 6 till 4.

[ReMark]

Wasn't that a Trivial Pursuit question? LOL

[Jack_O'neill]

Its 5:00 o'clock somewhere....

[ReMark]

A clock that doesn't run will show the correct time twice a day.

[chulse]

A clock that doesn't run will show the correct time twice a day.

 

...unless it's digital (with no batteries)....

 

...and now I need to go look up that album

[Dana W]

When y'all are done, would y'all mind explainin' why somebody left a cake out in the rain?

[Jack_O'neill]

When y'all are done, would y'all mind explainin' why somebody left a cake out in the rain?

 

I dunno either, but with the likes of Diana Ross, Sammy Davis Jr, and Frank Sinatra crooning about it, someone should have figured it out by now. Waylon Jennings even got a grammy for it and we still don't know why the cake got left out.