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Chief Architect X10 Reference Manual

To place a skylight in a vaulted ceiling, Editing Skylights
uncheck Flat Ceiling Over This Room in
the Room Specification dialog, draw the Skylights can be selected individually or in
ceiling planes to produce the vault and edit groups and can be edited using the edit
them as needed, and then draw the skylight. handles, edit toolbar buttons, or the Roof
See “Structure Panel” on page 436. Hole/Skylight Specification dialog. See
“Roof Hole/Skylight Specification Dialog”
on page 820.
Note: If a sloped ceiling plane is present
under the skylight, a hole in this ceiling plane Skylights must always be contained by a
is automatically produced. This hole is visible, single roof plane. If the roof plane is deleted,
and may be located directly under the roof any skylights or holes it contains are also
hole. It can be moved and edited separately. deleted. Aside from this restriction, skylights
can be edited much like standard closed
polylines. See “Editing Closed-Polyline
Based Objects” on page 231.
If you clear the Skylight check box in the
Roof Hole/Skylight Specification dialog,
the curb and glass for the skylight is removed
but the opening remains.
By default, the flat ceiling hole does not
display separately; but it can be edited
separately, and even deleted entirely. See
“Roof Hole/Skylight Specification Dialog”
on page 820.
A roof hole can also be created using the
Create Hole edit tool. See “Polyline
Holes” on page 236.

Roof Hole/Skylight Specification Dialog
Select a skylight and click the Open Hole/Skylight Specification dialog. See
Object edit button to open the Roof “Skylights and Roof Holes” on page 819.

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