Discover the process of adding ceilings to a building plan using the architecture tab and learn about the different ceiling types that can be used. Find out the importance of setting the correct height of the ceilings and understand the use of the automatic ceiling option.
Key Insights
- The process of adding ceilings to a building requires consideration of the building layout and the ceiling type to be used. Two different ceiling types used are a two by two grid for offices and hard lids for corridors and restrooms.
- Setting the correct height of the ceilings is essential to avoid them being too close to or intersecting the windows. In the example, the height was set at nine foot four, providing more space and preventing the ceiling from sitting right at the window.
- The automatic ceiling option is a tool that can simplify the process, identifying spaces and placing the ceilings accordingly. This tool can be used when creating ceilings for both offices and corridors, speeding up the building process.
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So moving right along, going up the building, we're going to go ahead and add our ceilings now. And so the trick here is to make sure that when we add our ceilings, that we actually go to ceiling plans level one to add them and not level one level one for the floor plans. Because if we do that, we won't have the same view options, we won't be able to see the same thing.
When you look at our ceiling plan, it's definitely different looking than our floor plan. So I'm going to go to my ceiling plan. And we're going to use two different ceiling types, we're going to use a two-by-two grid in the offices and some of these other spaces.
And then we'll use a hard lid in the corridor and the restrooms, the stairs will just be open to above. So I'm going to go to the Architecture tab and Ceiling. And from here, we only have a couple options.
It's pretty simple and straightforward to do. And we're going to change our type from two-by-four to two-by-two. And then we're going to go ahead and set the height to be a little bit higher.
If I put it at eight feet, then we'd be pretty much right at the top of the window and you'd be able to see the ceiling because these windows are eight foot eight. But if we bumped it up a bit to say like nine foot four, then that gives us a little bit more space in there. We don't have the ceiling right at the window or the ceiling going right through the window, which would be even worse.
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So those are the two changes that we'll make. And then by using this automatic ceiling option, you can see that it's trying to find these spaces. And so if I were to click into this office here, you can see it'll place a grid.
And then if I click into the offices going down, it'll just place the ceilings for me with no issues, which is pretty great. And it makes it a pretty quick process to go through. And so that would be the ceilings for our offices.
Now we need to look at our ceilings for our corridor and our restrooms. To do that, we'll use the same process. We'll use ceiling and then we'll just change the type from the two-by-two to the gypsum board on metal stud.
And we can use the auto-placing option again here. But you'll notice that as I click it in there, there's nothing indicating that there's actually a ceiling there. Also in this location, you can see that maybe we're getting a little more ceiling than we need.
So that means we're going to have to edit it after the fact. So I'll go ahead and place it. And you can see we know it's there because those lines went away.
But we don't really have an indicator or a graphic that shows what they look like. And to do that, we can change the material and give it a surface pattern so that we know exactly what we're looking at. So what I'll do here is this can be a little tricky.
And so there's two ways you can do it to select the ceiling. You can hit TAB a couple of times until the ceiling is highlighted. Or if you're not sure, you can go ahead and use a crossing.
And that'll select a few of the items here. And then you can filter. And then I just hit check none most of the time.
And then I'll just pick ceilings. That's probably the easiest way to do it. Tab can be a little temperamental because if you're moving your mouse around, it's going to select many different things that you don't want.
And so that's probably the easiest way to go about that. So first thing I'll do is I'll go ahead and edit the boundary because I want it to align with this line here. And so I can use my align tool to align it with the floor above in both locations there and then finish the sketch.
And that'll set me up to having the right floor profile. The next thing I want to do is I'm going to edit the type. And notice I left the selection because we had to go through all that work to select it.
So why do we want to lose that? So I'm going to go edit type. And then we want to edit the structure here because we want to change one of the materials that's associated with this ceiling. So I'll click edit.
And then I'm going to change the finish. It's set to gypsum wallboard, which is correct. But the problem is we don't want to add a surface pattern to this because gypsum wallboard is being used across the project.
If I were to go in, add a surface pattern here, then everywhere that gypsum wallboard is being used, well, it's going to have that surface pattern. We want to avoid that. And what we're going to do is we'll just right-click where it says gypsum wallboard and say duplicate.
And we're going to create this new type. So instead of calling it gypsum wallboard, we'll call it gypsum wallboard ceiling to identify it specifically for ceilings.
So by calling it gypsum wallboard ceiling, then I can do whatever I want with the surface pattern because I know I'm only going to be using it on the ceiling types. So I'll go down and we're going to look for either sand or sand dense. This is really a preference thing.
If you want it to be really stippled, then you can go and use the sand dense. If you're thinking you just need kind of a subtle pattern, then sand is the way to go. There's also this gypsum plaster, which is pretty similar to sand dense that you could use as well.
We're going to go with sand and let's take a look and see what it looks like. And once we hit OK to get out of all of those windows, you can see we now have a good visual indicator of what our gypsum board ceiling looks like. And you can imagine if I picked one of those dense patterns, it might have been a little bit too bold and we would have had to dial it back to the sand.
