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to its bottom plate. The two walls remain • Select Generate Between Platforms to
separate objects on different floors, how- fill in the gap between floor and/or ceiling
ever, unless the wall above is an Attic platforms when the selected railing or
Wall. Does not affect interior walls. invisible wall separates rooms with differ-
• Select Hang Floor Platform Above on ent floor and/or ceiling heights. When
Wall to produce a platform that hangs on unchecked, this gap is not closed. Only
the inside of the selected wall rather than available for railings, Invisible railings,
bearing on top of it. When checked, the and Invisible walls, this setting has no
two options that follow are available. effect when the selected wall type has
only one layer. See “Floor and Ceiling
• Select Subflooring to Interior Wall to Platforms” on page 427.
hang the platform on the inside surface of
the wall. When unchecked, the platform 3 The Wall Intersection settings control
builds to the inside surface of the wall’s whether the selected wall builds
Main Layer. See “The Main Layer” on through wall corners at its Start and End
page 383. points. The display of Start and End
Indicators can be turned on or off in the
• Select Include Ledger to hang the plat- Preferences dialog. See “Edit Panel” on
form from a ledger board attached to the page 123.
wall. When unchecked, no ledger is cre-
ated when platform framing is generated. • Select Through Wall at Start to build the
See “Floor and Ceiling Framing” on page wall through the wall corner located at its
836. start point.
• Select Stop at Floor Below to have the • Select Through Wall at End to build the
bottom of the wall stop at the top surface wall through the wall corner located at its
of a floor platform. This is the default for end point.
framed wall types. • When neither box is checked, the program
• Select Go Through Floor Below to have will determine whether the wall builds
the bottom of the wall go through the through the corners at each of its end-
floor platform below. This is the default points.
for concrete wall types. If the wall is Specify the number of Rim Joists for
framed and there is a framed wall directly 4 the floor platform below the selected
below, the studs of the wall below will wall(s). See “Framing” on page 835.
extend up produce balloon framing. Does
not affect interior walls. • Select Single or Double to generate one
or two rim joists, respectively.
• Select Automatic to generate two rim
Note: Whether a wall is a framed or concrete
type is determined by the material assigned joists if there is no wall below the selected
to its Main Layer. See “Wall Type Definitions wall, and one rim joist when there is a
Dialog” on page 386. wall below. Automatic produces a single
rim joist for Deck Railing.

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