Layout suspended ceiling

[Anonymous]

Is their a simple solution to layout a reflective ceiling plan in archicad 16
other than line work

That can easily be adjusted and manipulated

Thank you
Mark

[Anonymous]

The easiest is to use the slab tool with a material and fill pattern assigned to match the ceiling grid. For sloping sections use the roof tool.

[Bricklyne Clarence]

Depends on what sort of ceiling you're trying to lay out.

For a simple ceiling, as has been suggested, a simple slab with the correct texture and vectorial hatching tends to suffice.

On the other hand, if you're talking about a tiled suspended ceiling with grid-based ceiling tiles, then I would recommend ManuBIM's most excellent parametric ceiling editor object which allows you to parametrically control the Ceiling object, set the grid adjust the display settings vis-a-vis Ceiling plan views, 3D window resolution along with additional ceiling accessories like ventilator diffusers, lights and fire-extinguisher/fire-safety objects.


You can download it from BIM Components at

https://bimcomponents.com/GSM/Details/14843

And you'll also see a demo video showing how it works and a tutorial video as well.

Stuff like that is part of the best reasons to upgrade to ArchiCAD 16 and I hope we see more objects of that sort in ArchiCAD 17.

[Anonymous]

ManuBim's tool is cool but still limited. If it does what you need that's great. For the really fussy jobs I use beam profiles for the grid and library parts for the splay wires, compression struts, etc.

Of course that's all commercial lay in stuff. For complex hard ceilings with elaborate cornices trim profiles and SEOs are the way to go.

[kevin b]

We use a slab and the ceiling grid slab accessory for suspended grid ceilings, particularly if you are BIMming with REVIT MEP engineers, it's the only way we found that worked for everyone, easily.