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Reflected ceiling plans (RCP)

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Reflected ceiling plans (RCP)

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- [Voiceover] Now let's take a look at what we can do with this 3D document here. So I have modeled some ceiling slabs. If we go here to section B,you'll notice that we have some slabs made of Gypsum plasterboard in the layer ceiling. And this is simply a generic slab that I have modeled in the floor plan and then moved up. So I have done these wherever I could. So if I go back to the floor plan now and see how we can get an RCP out of it. And since we're gonna be looking up I'm gonna change the layer combination to the 5.1, because I do wanna see the beams and the ceilings that I have above. So now I'm gonna go to the 3D documents, right-click, and press new 3D documents from the floor plan. ArchiCAD's gonna ask me what's the name of this new 3D document, so I'm gonna call it RCP 01, ground floor reflected ceiling plan, so ground floor RCP. And I don't need this number here, and then press create. So ArchiCAD is gonna do a 3D cut of the model looking down. If we zoom in here you can…

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