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Posted by ltd77 at May 1, 2017, 2:07:57 PM

How to do a vaulted and flat ceiling of a single wall
Hello:

First off, thank you very much for this software. It has been a very useful tool in designing our home and we love it!

My question is, how to have a wall that has a room with a vaulted ceiling on one side, and a standard flat ceiling on the other side of it. When I create a sloped wall, it wants to slope the ceiling in both rooms that touch it (both sides). I have not been able to figure out how to have one side of the wall with a flat ceiling, and the other side of this same wall with the vaulted ceiling.

I'm sure there is a way to do this but so far I have not been able to figure out how.

Any suggestions of how to do this would be welcome. Thank you very much!!

Chris

Posted by hansmex at May 3, 2017, 10:56:08 AM

Re: How to do a vaulted and flat ceiling of a single wall
Without seeing your design, it's hard to give an answer.
As a general rule: when you need to different ceilings, draw two separate rooms:
- one for the vaulted ceiling
- one for the standard ceiling.

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Posted by bdfd at May 3, 2017, 12:32:57 PM

Re: How to do a vaulted and flat ceiling of a single wall

Without seeing your design, it's hard to give an answer.
As a general rule: when you need to different ceilings, draw two separate rooms:
- one for the vaulted ceiling
- one for the standard ceiling.

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Or for one room, without no forget to cancel the 'magnetism' option... wink

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Posted by ltd77 at May 3, 2017, 11:54:17 PM

Re: How to do a vaulted and flat ceiling of a single wall

Without seeing your design, it's hard to give an answer. As a general rule: when you need to different ceilings, draw two separate rooms: - one for the vaulted ceiling - one for the standard ceiling.

Hello and thank you for the reply.

I created a sample design to illustrate my question.

In this example, two rooms that share a wall in the center. Room A I would like to have a flat ceiling. Room B a vaulted ceiling. Room A all walls are flat except for the one in the center. In the Virtual Visit, it shows a gap where the ceiling is being raised up rather than staying flat. Is there a way to force the ceiling to stay flat? Room B looks correct and has the vault.

I am sure there is way but so far I cannot find out how.

Thanks again.

Chris

Posted by ltd77 at May 3, 2017, 11:56:39 PM

Re: How to do a vaulted and flat ceiling of a single wall

Sorry, the image link may not have worked. It should be here:

http://imgur.com/a/x9gVK

Posted by bdfd at May 4, 2017, 5:46:47 AM

Re: How to do a vaulted and flat ceiling of a single wall

Hello and thank you for the reply.
I created a sample design to illustrate my question.
http://imgur.com/a/x9gVK
In this example, two rooms that share a wall in the center. Room A I would like to have a flat ceiling. Room B a vaulted ceiling. Room A all walls are flat except for the one in the center. In the Virtual Visit, it shows a gap where the ceiling is being raised up rather than staying flat. Is there a way to force the ceiling to stay flat? Room B looks correct and has the vault.
I am sure there is way but so far I cannot find out how.
Thanks again.Chris

I think that there is a mistake. biggrin

You speak about ceiling and it's perhaps a roof.

1. To have an vaulted ceiling you must use an arch (with same heights),
or semi-arch with different heights.

2. For an inclinated ceiling (it's not the same thing), you must create your object (from a exported 'box' for example)
or put an inclinated roof which will give an inclinated ceiling...

Look at my given example below.

I hope that I have understood well your ask.

Regards.
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Posted by hansmex at May 4, 2017, 7:41:48 AM

Re: How to do a vaulted and flat ceiling of a single wall
If the drawing BDFD made is correct, you can use a triangle to fill the gap between wall and ceiling above the shared wall between both rooms.

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Posted by ltd77 at May 4, 2017, 5:40:10 PM

Re: How to do a vaulted and flat ceiling of a single wall

1. To have an vaulted ceiling you must use an arch (with same heights),
or semi-arch with different heights.

2. For an inclinated ceiling (it's not the same thing), you must create your object (from a exported 'box' for example)
or put an inclinated roof which will give an inclinated ceiling...

Look at my given example below.

I hope that I have understood well your ask.

Regards.

Hello and thank you for the replies and for the example design. I have looked at it, and that does help with the roof which I am going to do soon. But in my case I will be using a ceiling and a roof both in the design. Both of these would need to be at a different pitch, the ceiling at a 12/2 pitch, and a roof at 12/6 pitch to simulate a structure with scissor trusses for its roof.

I think I understand how to make the roof, I have found a couple of tutorials for that. But, I am still not sure how to have the ceiling drawn correct for the Virtual Visit feature. I am not sure how the program is drawing the ceiling for the Virtual Visit feature and how it determines the ceiling height. Does it always draw the ceiling at the height of the wall? Again in my design I have a sloped wall, but on one side of that sloped wall I wish to have the ceiling flat and not sloped. I think maybe one way to do it would be to draw in a ceiling as you have done, then draw in a roof above that. Would that be the correct way to do this?

Again, thank you so much for your help.

Posted by bdfd at May 4, 2017, 8:04:32 PM

Re: How to do a vaulted and flat ceiling of a single wall

Hello and thank you for the replies and for the example design.
Would that be the correct way to do this ?

Yes !

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Posted by ltd77 at May 5, 2017, 3:50:41 PM

Re: How to do a vaulted and flat ceiling of a single wall
Yes ! smile

OK, thank you very much. I will give that a try and reply if I continue to have an issue.

Chris

Posted by ltd77 at May 18, 2017, 4:27:07 AM

Re: How to do a vaulted and flat ceiling of a single wall
Hello:

I found another way to do this and thought I would share. I created a new level above the current elevation called "ceiling". In this new level, I created the sloped walls that extend upward from the walls of the level below it. One end if the walls are close to zero as I could get (1/8"), and the highest point ended up being 2'10". Then, I created a room in this area, and checked "show ceiling", and unchecked "show floor". Under the "3D View" menu, I also selected "Display all levels", which I had not seen before, which will show the levels above and below from the Virtual Visit feature all together. On the main level I unchecked "show ceiling", so that it will show the sloped ceiling from the level above it. Now, the 3D view looks correct and also the Create Photo feature is drawing in the correct ceiling!

Chris

Posted by bdfd at May 18, 2017, 6:11:23 AM

Re: How to do a vaulted and flat ceiling of a single wall
Cool !

The most important is your success!

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Posted by dmcclurg at May 28, 2021, 5:36:48 AM

Re: How to do a vaulted and flat ceiling of a single wall

I am still not sure how to have the ceiling drawn correct for the Virtual Visit feature. I am not sure how the program is drawing the ceiling for the Virtual Visit feature and how it determines the ceiling height. Does it always draw the ceiling at the height of the wall? [cut] Would that be the correct way to do this?

This is also my question. I do not understand how the ceiling is drawn for a room when using the Virtual Visit feature.

Posted by Puybaret at May 28, 2021, 12:48:51 PM

Re: How to do a vaulted and flat ceiling of a single wall
As indicated in the help about editing rooms, the ceiling of a room is at the height of the level it belongs to, except for the last level where the height depends on the height of the closest walls.
See also that this post, this tip and this other tip for more examples.
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