A raised area such as a stage platform can be created either with a polyline solid or by defining a room and raising the floor height in the room specification dialog.
Chief architect building second floor over different ceiling heights.
Building a cape cod roof by ignoring the top floor open the chief architect plan in which you want to build a cape cod roof for.
Yes i should have copied the original before manipulating.
To create a split first floor level launch chief architect and open a new plan.
I am building a home with 2 different ceiling heights.
Creating a stage or raised area.
If a second floor hasn t been created yet navigate to build floor build new floor and in the new floor dialog that appears click on derive new 2nd floor.
The 2nd floor roomson both upper and lower sides are all 8 7 1 2 i think.
Since the first floor contains different ceiling heights i over rode the defaults.
Some are at 10 and others are at 12 8.
The relative heights rough ceiling value is the height to the wall top plate.
Derive new 2nd floor plan from the 1st floor plan.
I have built the roofs and everything looked great.
Creating a suspended ceiling like other kinds of lowered or dropped ceilings you can create a suspended ceiling with ceiling tiles by setting up a custom ceiling finish definition.
Select build wall straight exterior wall then click and drag to draw a simple rectangular structure.
You can easily create a split level in chief architect by controlling the floor and ceiling heights of different rooms in a plan.
Building a cape cod roof by controlling ceiling heights.
Wall height is determined by the distance between the floor and ceiling of a given room.
Choose this option if you want to create a new top floor with exterior walls generated directly over the exterior walls of the floor below.
Any tips as to how this can be done without changing the 2nd floor attributes would be greatly appreciated.
If you choose the first option you will want to move or delete any undesired walls on floor 2 once it is automatically generated such as walls for a.
You can easily create a split level in chief architect by controlling the floor and ceiling heights of different rooms in a plan.
What i need to do is build all my walls at 10 0 and then pony wall up 2 8 in the appropriate rooms.
You can easily create a split level in chief architect by controlling the floor and ceiling heights of different rooms in a plan.