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Underpinning walls to a ceiling

Underpinning walls to a ceiling

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Underpinning walls to a ceiling

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- When you're doing the basic layout of your floor plans, you're not always thinking about what's happening up above the ceiling or in the height direction of these walls, but at some point in the design process, you're gonna start thinking about how you want each of these walls to behave. Should the walls go all the way to the deck? Should they go just a little bit above the ceiling plane? Maybe a few inches or a few millimeters above the ceiling plane? Or should they be underpinned, should they stop at the underside of the ceiling? So let's say that in this case, I wanted these four interior walls here to be underpinned and stop below the surface of the ceiling. So if I open up a section view, what you'll see is I don't actually have a ceiling in here at all yet. So let's go to a ceiling plan, and let's add one in and look at how we can create this underpinned condition. So I'm gonna go to the Ceiling command, and I…

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