Now another thing about Swiss framing. The particular Bernese style that I have studied can really be divided into 2 main types (at least the specific class of farm houses):
Fachwerk/half-timbered and boarded frames.

Depending on how the building is to be covered, the framing is slightly different. The biggest difference seems to be that fachwerk houses use a somewhat closer spacing for posts (although the swiss farmhouses do not have near as much timber in them as the German styles tend to have) long braces slanting from sill to plate, and lack of tie beams -joists in fachwerk Swiss houses run from plate to plate and prevent spread.

The boarded houses and barns seem to have a joist/tie beam atop every post -the posts are still spaced closer than we tend to put them it seems.