I dreamed up a frame for the porch sketched in by architect with no detail save roof pitch, wall length, wall height, and roof overhang.

See the pics. Roof pitch is 9:12. I have it with 5x10 beams connected to 6x6 posts, 4x8 hips and 4x6 rafters, one rafter per bay. A shaped centerpost from 10x10 stock heads all the ridge members, and the rafters pinch in between.

There is plenty of structure here for the snow load, more than enough, really. I sized the members (yes, [/i]5[i]x10s, all to have it achieve a light look, not chunky at all.

The question here is what about the connection at each corner? Hip to post, beam to post. I have the hip mortised, the top of post tenoned, and skewed mortises in the posts are for the offset tenons at beam ends.

Each of the 8 sides is about 7'1" long. I show a "bent" which is the section through a pair of opposing hips. The 3.5x6 ties are only on half of the "bents."

Does the joint seem reasonable?

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