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Orientation issues with face-based content and basic ceilings

Orientation issues with face-based content and basic ceilings

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Orientation issues with face-based content and basic ceilings

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- [Instructor] This week I want to discuss ceiling content, and specifically different behaviors of hosting. Now it's most common for folks to use compound ceilings when they create a reflected ceiling pan. So that's mostly what I have here. So if we kind of look around the screen here, you'll see that ceilings like this, if I hover over it, is a compound ceiling, which means that the system family that's being used to generate that ceiling is called compound ceiling but there's this other ceiling right here called the basic ceiling. So, the difference is that the compound ceiling is actually a layered system family. So, if went to edit type and then we went to edit structure, it would have one or more layers within its structure, very similar to how a wall behaves, how a floor or a roof behaves. So you can build a ceiling assembly using the same interface that you're familiar with in these other techniques. And then…

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