Residential Construction Details

A whole house, generated from a floor plan: every stud, plate, rafter and nail placed by a generator, sized against the code that governs it, and counted in a material takeoff that moves when the plan moves. Change the width and the ceiling joists get deeper because the span did — nobody types a number.

HOUSE-1 The whole house 32'-0" x 20'-0" · brick veneer on a wrapped and sheathed frame, six windows and a front door, a 6:12 gable roof — every stick, sheet and tie generated 849 parts · 24 steps · 4 named variants · generated from a floor plan

How a house is actually put together, assembly by assembly. Each detail is a small, buildable 3D model you can orbit, section and step through in construction sequence, with a 2D sheet sliced from the same geometry — so the model and the drawing cannot disagree.

Every CODE citation is read against the adopted edition and stamped with when and where it was read: 333 of 333 across the register today. A citation nobody has read does not get a code badge here.

Every callout is labelled CODE or PRACTICE: a prescriptive requirement with a citation attached, or trade convention a good crew does anyway. That distinction is the thing a static detail book cannot make.

The library it is built out of

Seventeen details, each one a small buildable model with its own citations, sequence and sheets. They are not illustrations of the house — they are where its geometry was verified before a generator was allowed to produce it at scale.

RCD-001 California Corner 2x6 · SLAB ON GRADE · BRICK VENEER 27 steps · 4 sheets · 17/17 citations read RCD-002 Slab on grade, full 20'-0" x 60'-0" · STIFFENED SLAB · ROUGH-IN CAST IN 18 steps · 4 sheets · 19/19 citations read RCD-003 Eave, soffit and gutter 4:12 · 2x6 WALL · BRICK VENEER · 12" OVERHANG · K-STYLE GUTTER 21 steps · 4 sheets · 28/28 citations read RCD-004 Gable roof framing 24'-0" x 12'-0", adjustable pitch, ridge board or ridge beam 11 steps · 4 sheets · parametric · 14/14 citations read RCD-005 Hip roof framing 24'-0" x 12'-0", equal pitch on four slopes, adjustable 3:12 to 16:12 11 steps · 4 sheets · parametric · 15/15 citations read RCD-006 Shed roof framing 12'-0" LEAN-TO · LEDGER ON AN EXISTING BRICK WALL · 1:12 TO 6:12 28 steps · 5 sheets · parametric · 28/28 citations read RCD-007 Valley framing and the open valley 24'-0" x 12'-0" WITH AN EQUAL-SPAN ELL · FRAMED OR CALIFORNIA VALLEY · 1:12 TO 12:12 16 steps · 4 sheets · parametric · 18/18 citations read RCD-008 Exterior door opening 3'-0" x 6'-8" ENTRY DOOR · SLAB AND LANDING · SWITCHABLE WALL, INSULATION AND CLADDING 31 steps · 5 sheets · parametric · 34/34 citations read RCD-009 Window opening 3'-0" x 6'-0" SINGLE HUNG · SLAB · SWITCHABLE WALL, INSULATION AND CLADDING 31 steps · 5 sheets · parametric · 28/28 citations read RCD-010 Interior door opening PREHUNG PASSAGE DOOR · NONBEARING OR BEARING PARTITION · ON SLAB 14 steps · 5 sheets · parametric · 15/15 citations read RCD-013 Roof sheathing, insulation and covering 6:12 GABLE · 7/16" OSB 24/16 · SHINGLE, METAL, TILE OR SLATE · VENTED OR COMPACT 13 steps · 6 sheets · parametric · 27/27 citations read RCD-014 Asphalt shingle roof covering GABLE · 2:12 TO 12:12 · THREE-TAB OR LAMINATED · DRIP EDGE, UNDERLAYMENT, STARTER, FIELD, RIDGE 9 steps · 5 sheets · parametric · 19/19 citations read RCD-015 Roof-to-wall intersection SIDEWALL · STEP FLASHING · COUNTERFLASHING · KICKOUT 11 steps · 4 sheets · parametric · 19/19 citations read RCD-016 Ridge vent and attic ventilation THE SLOT · THE VENT · AND THE OTHER END OF THE ATTIC 8 steps · 5 sheets · parametric · 15/15 citations read RCD-019 Interior partition NONBEARING · TEE, CORNER AND FIREBLOCKING · ON SLAB 19 steps · 6 sheets · parametric · 18/18 citations read RCD-025 Attic access THE HATCH · ITS DAM · AND THE R-VALUE NOBODY BUILDS 10 steps · 4 sheets · parametric · 11/11 citations read RCD-046 Inside corner THE REENTRANT CORNER · ONE STUD WHERE A CALIFORNIA CORNER TAKES THREE 11 steps · 3 sheets · 8/8 citations read

Planned

Educational reference. Not a construction document, not a code-compliance instrument, not stamped by a design professional. Verify against your adopted code and, where structure is involved, an engineer. Written against the IRC; editions and local amendments vary, which is why the CODE/PRACTICE split exists.