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• Split levels and bi-levels • If the floor is raised, the ceiling height
• Sunken living rooms and garages decreases while the ceiling below that
room is raised.
• Cathedral, vaulted, and coffered ceilings.
If the rooms above a particular room have
more than one floor height, the room’s
ceiling is stepped.

In 3D views, you can adjust the default floor
and ceiling height for the entire floor, the
floor and ceiling height for an individual In a situation like this, a Lowered Ceiling can
room, or the top and bottom heights of an be used to cover “steps” made by different
individual wall. See “In 3D Views” on page floor heights on the floor above. See
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“General Panel” on page 435.
In order to raise or lower an area’s floor or
ceiling height, you must give it a room Dropped Ceilings and
definition. To create room definition without Raised Floors
enclosing an area with solid walls, use
The structure of a dropped, or suspended,
Railings .
ceiling can be specified in the Ceiling Finish
Invisible walls and railings will fill in the Definition dialog either for a room or the
vertical space between floor platforms of defaults for a floor. See “Floor and Ceiling
different heights as long as Generate Platform Definitions” on page 428.
Between Platforms is checked in their
specification dialog. See “General Panel” on To create a framed dropped ceiling
page 390.
1. Select a room and click the Open
Ceiling and floor heights are interrelated. Object edit button.
Changing the floor height in one room can
affect ceiling heights of the rooms below. 2. On the STRUCTURE panel of the Room
Specification dialog, click the Ceiling
• If a room’s floor is lowered, its ceiling Finish button. See “Structure Panel” on
height is increased while the ceiling page 436.
below that room drops.
3. In the Ceiling Finish Definition dialog:
• Specify Layer 1 as the plenum space.

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