Learn the step-by-step instructions to create a ceiling plan and add crown molding in your living room, dining room, and study area using your floor plans and elevation. This article walks you through the use of view tabs, annotation categories, visibility graphic overrides and more to get your ceiling plan drawn up accurately.
Key Insights
- The process starts by selecting the 'reflected ceiling plan' under 'plan views' in the view tab. You can duplicate existing plans and create an 'interior ceiling plan' matching your floor plans and elevation.
- To make your plan more comprehensible, you can clean it up by going into the 'visibility graphic overrides'. You can turn off both the foreground and background patterns and also hide elevations in the annotation categories.
- After the plan is prepared, ceilings can be drawn in by going to 'architecture', then 'ceiling', and choosing your ceiling type. You can place ceilings in different areas using the 'automatic sketch ceiling option' and set the height accordingly.
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Now we're going to go ahead and do the crown molding in our living room, dining room, and study area. And to do that, we need to have a ceiling. So I'm going to go up to my view tab, plan views, and then I'm going to pick reflected ceiling plan.
And what I can do here is I can go ahead and see where it says do not duplicate existing views. I'm going to uncheck that and I can see I have an option for level one. And then our options here are architectural ceiling plan, electrical ceiling plan, mechanical ceiling plan.
So I can do edit type and duplicate and I can call this interior ceiling plan to just kind of match what we've been doing with our floor plans and elevation. So I'll hit OK. And I'm OK with that view template and we'll hit OK again.
And then we're going to go ahead and create the ceiling plan, our interior ceiling plan for level one and hit OK. We're really just dealing with this area here. And so what I want to do is I'm going to create a call out on the interior ceiling plan.
You can see it's set up there and I'll just go ahead and grab this area and doing the same things we were doing before. And this is going to be my view for that. I'm going to use the same scale as well, so I'll set it to three eights just so we're looking at the same thing.
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And there's a couple of things just to clean this up a bit. I'm going to go into my visibility graphic overrides. And then I'll go into floors.
And if you remember before, we actually turned this off, but I'm going to go to where it says pattern overrides here. And I'm going to turn off both the foreground and backward background patterns so that they don't show up because then it'll be easier to see where we've placed ceilings. And I'll hit OK.
And so you can see that went away. And then the other thing I'm going to do is I'll go back into that visibility graphic overrides and then I'm going to go to my annotation categories. And I'm going to hit E so I can get down to where it says elevations.
And I'm going to turn those off in this view as well. And so now I've just got kind of a cleaned up version of our plan. And so to get this to draw in those ceilings, we'll do the same process we've done in previous courses where we go to architecture, ceiling, and then we can pick our ceiling type.
And I'm going to do the gypsum board on wood furring and make sure the height is set to nine feet. And you can see as we go into the different areas that we have here, we're on the automatic sketch ceiling option, not the sketch ceiling option, we're on the automatic one. And I can go in here and I can just pick to place it.
And again, we're on the interiors work set again. And so I'll set a ceiling in there. I'll set one in the bedroom at nine feet.
And then the one in the bathroom in the closet, I'm going to set to eight foot six. Okay, and so now I'll hit escape a couple times to make sure I don't accidentally place ceiling somewhere else. If I were to go into my 3D view, we're still below that ceiling line with our section box.
If I click the section box here, and I were to move it up a bit, you can see we now have some ceilings. I went a little too high there. But these are the ceilings that we just added in.
And so if I were to set my section box down just a little bit further, you can kind of see we can start to get close to where that ceiling line is. And now we can go through and add our crown molding to these walls. And we can do that a couple different ways.
We've already done it in our 3D view. That's one way to do it. The other way is we've made all of those elevations.
And there's actually still a ton of work that we need to do on those elevations. We might as well get in there and clean those up while we're adding the crown molding at the same time so that we can be efficient and productive with our work. So I'm going to go ahead and save here.
And then we could jump into editing our interior elevations and adding that crown molding at the same time.
