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Ceiling soffit tip

Ceiling soffit tip

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Ceiling soffit tip

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- Let's take a look at what happens when you have ceilings at different heights. So, I have a really simple example here. I've got an acoustical ceiling tile here at one height and then I have a drywall ceiling dropped down below that. That gives me this gap here that I'm going to need to fill in. The easiest way to do that is to use a soffit wall, so you just create a small, little wall, and you fill in those little gaps there. I've already got one of those walls drawn here; I've just got it hidden, so if I reset my temporary height, isolate there, you can see I've got this small, little wall here. It's using the Soffit Wall type. It's got a Base Offset at eight and a Height of one. Okay, so that's important, because otherwise, it would be drawn down here on the floors, so by using a base offset of eight, it puts it up at the height of the ceiling, which is also at eight. So, let's draw the one in the other direction.…

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