flipping joists

[wayneriley]

there must be a quick way to flip the orientation of these floor joists!!(all at once)

[Dermot Dempsey]

HD Pro should have the Transform/Replicate Object tool. It will appear in the edit toolbar when you have a single or group of objects selected. You could also just group select the joists and rotate them using the rotate handle. In either case, you are just rotating the existing joists which may or may not give you the results you want without further editing (this will only work if your room is perfrectly square).

My recomendation would be to draw a Joist Direction line and then rebuild your framing as needed.

Joist Direction LinesA Joist Direction Line defines the direction joists are laid out. Every floor platform can have its own joist direction, but if a direction line is not specified, the joists are run the way that makes them shortest.


Select Build> Framing> Joist Direction and draw a joist direction line as you would draw a CAD line. (The text along the joist direction line states the joist size and spacing for the platform. Unless the individual joist direction line is edited, these values reflect the settings specified on the appropriate floor tab of the Build Framing dialog)

Two Joist Direction Lines, one on either side of a Bearing Line, can split a platform into two for the purpose of defining different framing specifications for each area.

[don3211]

wayneriley - review the Framing chapter of the Reference Manual, specifically pages 400 and 414. The joist direction line Dermot refers to is discussed in great depth on those pages.