Any tips as to how this can be done without changing the 2nd floor attributes would be greatly appreciated.
Chief architect building second floor over different ceiling heights.
What i need to do is build all my walls at 10 0 and then pony wall up 2 8 in the appropriate rooms.
Select build wall straight exterior wall then click and drag to draw a simple rectangular structure.
Since the first floor contains different ceiling heights i over rode the defaults.
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.
Wall height is determined by the distance between the floor and ceiling of a given room.
Some are at 10 and others are at 12 8.
Now i am moving on to ceiling joists and am runnning into problems.
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.
Yes i should have copied the original before manipulating.
You can easily create a split level in chief architect by controlling the floor and ceiling heights of different rooms in a plan.
You can easily create a split level in chief architect by controlling the floor and ceiling heights of different rooms in a plan.
I changed the ceiling heights when i clicked the room properties.
You can easily create a split level in chief architect by controlling the floor and ceiling heights of different rooms in a plan.
I have built the roofs and everything looked great.
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.
The 2nd floor roomson both upper and lower sides are all 8 7 1 2 i think.
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.
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.
The relative heights rough ceiling value is the height to the wall top plate.
Creating a stage or raised area.
To create a split first floor level launch chief architect and open a new plan.
Building a cape cod roof by controlling ceiling heights.
In order to raise or lower the height of the walls within a room the ceiling or floor of that room must be adjusted accordingly.
