How to stop ceiling floating above walls

[John37]

I've made one room into two and reduced the height of the walls within one of the rooms. When I create the room in the reduced height room the ceiling won't sit on top of the lower height walls but is always above the lower height walls at the height of the walls in the higher room. The new ceiling "floats" above the lower height walls.

How can I make the ceiling sit on top of the lowered walls?

Hope the problem is clear. If not I'll try to find another way of explaining it.

John

[hansmex]

John,

If you have drawn four walls, and then add a room, the ceiling will rest correctly on the four walls, provided they are of equal height.
If not all your walls have the same height, you may get unpredictable results.

If you need different wall heights, but still want a ceiling, you may use the Level function, and insert a ceiling/floor on the higher level.

Hans

[John37]

Thanks, Hans. Funnily enough, it doesn't work if the (four) walls (all equal height) are lower than the height of the level in which they are drawn. In other words, it is not possible to have two or more different ceiling heights at one level.

Because I have 4 different ceiling heights on the ground floor alone of our meditation centre, which I am designing with this wonderful program, and because I have several flat roofs at different heights on the ground floor, I've realized that I need to define many different Levels, which is what you mentioned in your reply. The extra Levels are simply to create ceilings or floors, and in some cases I seem to need one Level to create a ceiling and another Level to to create the flat roof above it.

It's a bit messy but seems to work ok. Does that sound like the best way to do it or is there a simpler way, please?

John

[macfrog]

John,

if it sounds a little bit easier to you, place some large(wide) "boxes" to simulate another floor level. If you can live with the fact that the generic lights are not be usable: apply the same procedure for the ceilings too.

greets
macfrog

[John37]

Great suggestion, macfrog, thank you.

John