Since walls no longer need to have a core layer I got me thinking what if Autodesk pushed the idea farther and allowed us to have multiple structural layers in a wall. Right now you can only pick a single layer to be a structural element. My company use a demising wall between apartment units quite often using UL U341 which from Side 1 to side 2 is constructed in the following way
Apartment #1 Side
5/8 Gyp
2x4 Wood Stud
1/2" Sheathing (Ply or OSB)
1" air space
1/2" Sheathing (Ply or OSB)
2x4 Wood Stud
5/8 Gyp
Apartment #2 Side
Now both stud layers in reality are structural. If we make this a single wall we can only assign the structural element to be one stud layer or the other but no both. I am not on the structural side of my company but feel this might assign with running structural analysis,
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