Roof planes that cut into the surface of walls can result in undesirable 3D views of those walls. Edit the roof planes so that they no longer cut into the walls. If the roof plane seems to keep jumping or snapping back to the original location, open the Roof Plane Specification dialog and on the General panel, check the box beside No Special Snapping, then click OK and proceed with editing the roof planes again.
In Chief Architect, roof trusses are generated in the space between roof planes and ceiling planes. When a vaulted ceiling has a different pitch than the roof planes above, scissor trusses are produced.
Open Below is a unique Room Type which has no floor platform and can be used for defining an open area in the floor below for a loft.
Use the Floor and Ceiling Finish Definition dialogs to control the floor and ceiling materials that are applied to individual rooms, floor levels, or the entire structure.
Tray ceilings can be created using tray ceiling polylines in X12 and newer program versions, or by using the platform hole tool.
Create exposed trusses by making a ceiling to define where you want the trusses' bottom chords, drawing the trusses, and then removing the ceiling.
Cathedral ceilings are the same pitch as the roof and are typically produced by enclosing the bottoms of the roof rafters with a ceiling material.
Ceiling materials can be changed through the default settings, through the room specification dialog, using the Material Painter, or using the Ceiling Plane Specification dialog.
Wall height is determined by the ceiling height of a given room. To change the wall height, you need to change the ceiling height. Use the Half Wall tool for creating solid railings as their height can be set on the Newels/Balusters panel of the Railing Specification dialog.
One way to produce a barrel ceiling is using a single ceiling plane that starts out flat with a zero pitch and covers the entire arched entry.
Use the Soffit tool to create a coffered ceiling. Moldings can easily be applied to soffits and the soffits can easily be replicated along a ceiling using the Transform/Replicate or Multiple Copy edit tools.
You can easily create a split level in Chief Architect by controlling the floor and ceiling heights of different rooms in a plan.
A dropped ceiling is a secondary ceiling, hung below the structural ceiling. May also be referred to as a drop ceiling, false ceiling, or suspended ceiling.
You can model a wide variety of ceiling finishes and furring strips using the Ceiling Finish Definition dialog and the framing tools.
In the Room Specification dialog, if the Ceiling value is grayed out, indicating that it is inactive, and this information message displays in the dialog, it means that multiple rooms with differing floor heights are present directly above so the field will display No Change.
A plant shelf ceiling or closet can be created using the Shelf Ceiling feature within a room's Specification dialog.
Creating a sloped ceiling above a staircase can be accomplished using a custom ceiling plane and modifying the height and pitch.
