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Floor and Ceiling Platform floor or individual room much the way you
Definitions can structural layers: by clicking the Floor
Finish and/or Ceiling Finish button on the
Floor and ceiling platforms are made up of STRUCTURE panel of either the Floor
layers of different materials such as framing, Defaults or Room Specification dialog to
subflooring, drywall, and finish materials. open the Floor or Ceiling Finish Definition
So, typically, are Floor Material Regions. See dialog.
“Floor and Wall Material Regions” on page
998.
If you use the Material Painter to change
Floor and ceiling platform definitions play a a room’s floor or ceiling finish material, it
role in determining floor and ceiling heights. will add that material to the room’s Floor or
Floor and ceiling finishes can be used to Ceiling Finish Definition. Changes to a Deck
create raised floors as well as dropped room’s planking or framing will affect its floor
structure definition. See “The Material
ceilings. See “Floor and Ceiling Heights” on Painter” on page 1014.
page 425.
• You can specify the composition of the Floor Material Regions
default floor and ceiling platforms for an
entire plan in the Floor/Ceiling Platform Floor Material Regions allow you to create
Defaults dialog. The settings in this dia- areas within a floor that use different layers
log are also found in the Room of materials than the parent object. See
Specification dialog. See “Structure “Floor and Wall Material Regions” on page
Panel” on page 436. 998.
• Floor and ceiling platforms can be cus- Stepped Floor and
tomized on a floor-by-floor basis in the
Floor Defaults dialog. See “Current Floor Ceiling Platforms
Defaults” on page 413. Each floor has default floor and ceiling
• Floor and ceiling platforms can also be heights. You can, however, use the Room
customized for individual rooms in the Specification dialog to specify floor and
Room Specification dialog. See “Struc- ceiling heights on a room by room basis to
ture Panel” on page 436. create stepped floors and ceilings. See
“Structure Panel” on page 436.
Regardless of how they are accessed, floor
and ceiling structure are defined in the Floor If you require a single floor platform with a
and Ceiling Structure Definition dialogs. uniform height and thickness but different
See “Material Layers Definition Dialogs” on ceiling heights for the rooms below, specify a
page 1001. lowered ceiling using the Ceiling Finish
Specification dialog. See “Lowered
In addition to the structural layers of a Ceilings” on page 430.
platform, floors and ceilings typically have
one or more finish layers. You can specify By default, the gap between floor and ceiling
floor and ceiling finish materials for an entire platforms that step at a railing or invisible

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