Explore building section improvement with an emphasis on addressing design flaws, ensuring the building's structural integrity and enhancing aesthetic appeal. Learn how to rectify errors, ensure the ceiling height is uniform and design railing for safety and visual balance.
Key Insights
- The article details how to rectify glaring faults in a building section, such as holes in the building that need to be filled with walls to complete the ceiling.
- The author demonstrates how to adjust ceiling heights to match the curtain wall and how to fill in the required space, using specific measurements, such as changing the height from nine foot four to eight foot eight.
- Instructions are provided on creating a roof soffit, drawing a wall across, and aligning the ceiling with the floor above, using a level two floor plan, with warnings about common errors to avoid during the process.
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Now we're going to take a look at our building section that we're going to put on the sheet and see what that looks like and see if we can improve it. So I'm just going to go directly to our section here. And when I look at the section, I can immediately see that there are a couple of things that are glaring mistakes that we should probably fix.
And one of them is definitely that we have a big hole in the building here. We need a wall that comes up to make up our ceiling in this location to kind of attach the two of those. And then it'd be nice if we had a railing here.
So those are things that are pretty important for the building because we wouldn't want to put this sheet on a view and then have all of those things kind of looking off. So it's actually really easy to fix a lot of these. One of the things I'm noticing is I'd like to have this ceiling be the same height as our as our curtain wall is.
And so I know that that's eight foot eight above. So I'll change that from nine foot four to eight foot eight. And that just brings it straight across.
And then I can go in to create this soffit piece here. I can go into my level two ceiling plan. And I know that that elevation has to be eight foot eight.
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And it's this space that needs to be filled in. And so I can adjust this ceiling here so that it goes all the way to our curtain wall. And I'm just using that align tool to line those up.
And I'll finish that sketch. And then I can go in and I can create another ceiling. Or actually this one will be a roof soffit.
If I go into Roof and pick the bottom side of Roof, we will have roof soffit here. And it's just going to be drawn in to this location. And I can use pick lines for that.
Again, this is one of those things where you want to be really careful as you go through and add these elements. Because if you go too quickly, then there's a good chance that you might double-click on something or that you might accidentally put two lines or forget a line that you added and not trim them properly. So those steps should be pretty familiar to you by now by adding those lines.
You definitely, definitely don't have to use pick lines if you're more comfortable using the draw line or just drawing it straight out. It'd probably take you just as much time. Because if you did it that way, you wouldn't have to go back and trim out all of those elements.
I do want you to notice that I did bring it back to the ceiling here so that we'd have a continuous piece going across. Now the height, you're going to want to make sure you set that at eight foot eight so that they are straight across and they do line up. Okay, so that's two of the things that we noticed that we didn't like right there.
Now for the next part, we can do this from level two as well, but this time from level two floor plan. And so I'll double-click on level two in my floor plan. And what we'll do is we'll draw a wall that goes across here.
And so this is my room separator. It looks like it's a little off, so I'll clean that up a bit. And then that's my ceiling that's below.
And so when I look at my level one ceiling plan, this ended up a little bit further over than it needed to be. So I'm going to edit that boundary and I'll line it up with my floor above. And so when I look at it in section again, you can see that these two are now going to line up.
And that works because I'm going to put a wall right on the front here that goes from the bottom of the slab to the top of the ceiling. And I'll do that from my level two floor plan. And so that type of wall is going to be a soffit wall.
If I start my wall, I can go into my different categories here and you can see we have a half-inch gypsum board and metal stud type here. And what I'll want to do is I want to make sure I set my top constraint correctly. And so I'm going to use the finished face exterior as the location line.
And my base constraint here is going to be level one. And I'll set the offset to eight foot eight because that's or to actually nine foot four because that's where that ceiling is going to sit. And then the top constraint, we can set this to be up to level two.
And when we get into the section, you'll see how we'll be able to clean this up. And so I'll just draw the wall going across here. And then we can turn the corner and we can bring it across so that we can close off the gap and you can see the wall from below right here because that's what we're seeing here as an underlay.
We'll address that in a minute here. Now when I go back to my section, I can see that I have my wall set in place and we're going to use that attach option that we've used before. So what I'm going to do is I know that I've only used this wall in those two locations.
