Discover the process of designing a ceiling grid for a junior office, using standard two-by-two foot tiles, with an emphasis on precision and symmetry. Learn how to define and communicate the ceiling heights within the design, ensuring accuracy and professional aesthetic.
Key Insights
- The initial step when designing a ceiling grid is to create the center line, which ensures the layout is symmetrical and balanced.
- Specific commands, like "C-O" to copy and "E-X" for extend, are used to duplicate the lines, adjust their position, and finalize the grid's layout.
- When the grid is complete, height tags are used to clearly communicate the ceiling height in different rooms, like the junior and executive offices, reinforcing the design's accuracy and clarity.
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Now that we are ceiling grid professionals, let's create the ceiling grid for the junior office. Now being a junior office, it's a smaller room. And sometimes if it's a smaller room, we'll use a smaller ceiling tile.
And the standard size is two foot by two foot. So let's go ahead and create a line, L-I-N-E. And let's start with the center line, left and right.
So the right wall right here. I'll click one time on the midpoint, click, go to the left, click. And I went midpoint to midpoint there.
Hit ENTER to be done. Now that I have that one right down the center, I can go ahead and copy it up. C-O to copy, click once, go up, 24, enter.
I'll click it and copy again. And I'll go 24, enter for 24 inches. And that's looking good.
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I'll select the top two lines, mirror command. I will draw a line right across that center line, click enter. And we have all of our horizontal lines.
Now we need our vertical line. And we don't have a line down the middle. We're going to have to offset again.
So let's go ahead and do a line, our tricky line. I'll click on the midpoint, go straight down perpendicular to the window, click, hit escape. I will do extend.
And I forgot my rule of enclosing the room. So I might need to go ahead and do that first. L-I-N-E, close the door jam, door jam to door jam.
And now I can do extend, E-X for extend. Go all the way to the top. There we go.
You can see if I zoom in how important that was. I didn't want to extend that outside of the room. Okay.
We know we don't have a center line here. We need to offset it and we're going to move it. How far do we move it to center a two foot by two foot grid? You guessed it, half the distance, which is one foot.
So click, move it to the left and type in one foot, enter. There it is. Now we'll select it, C-O to copy, and go once to the right, two feet, enter, hit escape.
Now we'll copy the left side again, C-O to copy. This time we'll click and go to the left, 24 inches or two feet, enter. And the last but not least, this right line, C-O to copy, click, go to the right, two feet, enter.
And there it is. We have our beautiful junior office with a two by two grid. Now we need to convey what the heights of these ceilings are.
We'll notice if we go to the conference room, there is a height tag. Let's go ahead and select it and type in C-O to copy. We'll click one time right in the center, turn off the ortho, and let's go ahead right to that junior office.
And let's click one time right about here, click, and then we'll go to that executive office right in the center and click, hit escape. And we'll just double click on the junior office, change that value from 10 feet down to nine feet, click okay. And the executive office is already okay because it's already at 10 feet and that looks really good.
