Create false ceilings in-app without drafting in AutoCAD

Model customised false ceilings directly in the design tool and add them to your design.

1. Customised false ceilings can be modelled directly in the design tool instead of drafting them in AutoCAD.

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2. Draw the shape with the false-ceiling sketcher's tools (after Add Extrude Shape): rectangle, lines, arcs (bend, centre or tangent), circle and polygon. That sketcher has no construction (reference) line tool.

3. Use offset/copy to create the inner profile.

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4. Apply extrude and drop it from the ceiling by the required distance (e.g. 100 mm).

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5. Assign a colour or slab default.

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6. Use 'create false ceiling' to add it.

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7. Multi-layer false ceilings are made by repeating the shape at different drop levels.

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