Floors and ceilings modeling - Creating ceilings

Tutorial resources

These downloadable resources will be used to complete this tutorial:

create-ceilings_001.rvt - (11 mb)

Transcript

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And we're looking at the floor for plan view

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and we'll create the ceilings at this end of the building

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around the conference room lounge, offices and reception space.

00:14

We're currently looking at a floor plan view

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and from the properties palette in the extents panel here,

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I'll click on the edit button next to view range

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and we can see that we have a 4 ft cut plan,

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which means that this view is created 4 ft above the level

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and is looking downwards.

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And therefore, if we create a ceiling in this floor plan view,

00:36

it's unlikely that we'll be able to see those ceilings

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as they will be above the 4 ft cup length for this view.

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So I'll click cancel to close the view range.

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So when creating ceilings, it's best to be working in a ceiling plan view.

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So from the project browser,

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we'll open up the floor for ceiling plan view

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and now we'll look at the view range settings of this view

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and we can see that we have a 7 ft six cup play

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and as it's a reflected view,

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we'll be looking up from this height and therefore

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the ceilings will be visible within these views.

01:14

So I'll click cancel to close this.

01:17

And now to create the ceiling,

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we'll go to the architecture ribbon tab and from the build panel,

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we'll choose the ceiling tool.

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Looking at the type selector,

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we can see we have the two by two acoustic ceiling tile system set

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and look at the modified place ceiling ribbon.

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You can see we have an option for automatic or sketch ceiling.

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It's currently set to automatic.

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So as I move my cursor over the rooms,

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we can see it detecting the enclosed spaces and outlining those with a red boundary.

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in the lounge area here, if I just click, it will place the ceiling in that area

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and we can continue to click in the conference

01:53

room in the office to place the ceilings there

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for the store room.

01:58

We'll first change the ceiling type to be the ship rock wall board on metal stud.

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And then when we click in this room,

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it actually places the ceiling,

02:07

but we can't easily see it as the boundary lines are coincident

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with the walls and it doesn't have a surface hatch pattern.

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So although it looks like it may not be placed, if we click to place it again,

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we can see we get a warning telling us

02:21

that there are identical ceilings in the same place.

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I'll close this warning and then from the quick access bar,

02:27

we'll choose undo to clear that last ceiling out.

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Now for the reception area as there isn't a physical boundary to enclose it.

02:35

The area that it finds covers the corridor on a lot more besides.

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So, in this instance,

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we'll use the sketch ceiling option from the modify played ceiling ribbon here.

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And now we can see that we're in the create ceiling boundary tools

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and we have our sketching tools here. So

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I'll change this to be the pick walls tool.

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And now this will allow me to go around and click on the walls

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and it will then trace the boundary line along the edges of those walls.

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So once you've got all of those picked,

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we will need to tie them up a little bit to create an enclosed boundary themselves.

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So when we pick on the wall, it just traces the entire length of the wall here.

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So I'll click modify first.

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Now, looking at the vertical line on the left here,

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we can see it's on the wrong side of the wall

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so we can use the controls here to flip it to the other side of the wall.

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Now, from the modified ribbon, I'll choose the trim extend to corner to

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and we can start to click on these lines here to create corners

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to create the enclosed space that we need.

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Now for a line around the back of the store, we need to trim this out.

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And as it's one long line, first, I'll go to the split element tool

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and split this into two separate lines.

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And now we can go back to the trim, extend to corner tool

03:52

and then create this boundary so that it goes around the store room.

03:58

So I haven't got that enclosed boundary. If we click, finish edit mode,

04:02

we should get that ceiling created

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and we can see it there created.

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Looking at the type selector, we can see it's the GWB on metal.

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So we'll change this for the two by four acoustic tile system.

04:15

And then we can see that created in the reception area.

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