Hello all,
Taking structures in a couple days and was wondering if I could get some feedback on my practice vignette.
I have a couple questions:
1. Do I need to draw beam to the end of the column, or can I end it at the middle of column.
2. Can beam be drawn as continous if there is a column in the middle, or do I have to start and stop?
3. I've read you ideally want your beam to span no more than 50'. I have 52' here. Is that ok or should I have added another column in that beam span in common room?
4. I've read you ideally want your joists to span no more than 20'. My largest span is 26' in the common room. Is that ok?
5. Do I need to show a beam on the 1st floor south wall (left hand side) of common room? I don't right now. Do i have to show the beam layouts on both floors for the tall space? I've seen conflicting info on this.
6. On Upper roof plan, I only show beams spanning E-W. I don't need to show them also spanning N-S between columns do I? And then similarly on the Lower roof plan. I've seen conflicting info.
Thanks!