Charlenerene Posted February 8, 2015 Share Posted February 8, 2015 Hey Guys/Gals/anyone that can help, So I am working on a bathroom that has a new issue for me. The wall opposite the door is an exterior wall and it is shorter than the interior wall. So the ceiling comes out 16" flat from the interior wall and then slopes down to meet the exterior wall. The interior wall height is 88.5" tall and the short wall is 62.5" tall. Now I know I can lower one wall but that always seems to leave a gap into the skybox. I have attached pictures of the actual room. Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks. Version: x6 Processor: 3.4 quad core RAM: 16 gigs Charlene Design to Shine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evergreen Posted February 8, 2015 Share Posted February 8, 2015 can you attach the plan...would save us both a lot of time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joey_martin Posted February 8, 2015 Share Posted February 8, 2015 looks like a dormer or directly under rafter situation. If you have the room situated correctly under the roof, it will take care of itself, if this a remodel drawing, and you are only dealing with the room, use a ceiling plan situated from the lower wall up to the 8' ceiling plan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DougMaddox Posted February 8, 2015 Share Posted February 8, 2015 Charlene, This is controlled by your roof heights. Build your room and set its height at 88.5". Then build your roof using your given pitch with the right wall set to "gable", set your roof base height to 62.5 and that should do it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlenerene Posted February 9, 2015 Author Share Posted February 9, 2015 Thanks guys I really appreciate the insight. Evergreen...I didn't attach a plan because there was nothing to see, other than a square room. Joey....I am about to embarrass myself. These folks just wanted to upgrade a powder room to a full bath, so that is all I drew. Doug....I have never played with roofs before, outside of adding a skylight. I will try to do this now. Thank you very much for the suggestion. Charlene Design to Shine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlenerene Posted February 9, 2015 Author Share Posted February 9, 2015 Hey Guys/Gals, Man roofs are tough to understand. Attached is where I am on my plan. The wall opposite the door is the one that is meant to be shorter. Every time I try to change the height it auto-resets to 97 5/8. I have no clue where that number comes from since that is not the size of either wall. My mind is blown on roofs. Thank you very much for your help, I really appreciate it. Charlene Design to Shine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlenerene Posted February 9, 2015 Author Share Posted February 9, 2015 Now for the attachment, maybe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlenerene Posted February 9, 2015 Author Share Posted February 9, 2015 A ha, you can't have it open in Chief if you want it to attach. Good to know. /sigh Starting out as one of those days. Charlene Design to Shine powder_room_roof.plan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rlackore Posted February 9, 2015 Share Posted February 9, 2015 You could use a manual ceiling plane to achieve what you want on the inside. powder_room_roof.plan This doesn't actually make the "exterior" wall the correct height, but I'm not sure how you'll achieve that given the roof you've drawn on the plan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AriseDesign Posted February 9, 2015 Share Posted February 9, 2015 My approach is like this:-Make the room a "no ceiling" under the structure tab-Create a roof plane, set the starting height to match the 62.5"-Create a ceiling plane or soffit plane at the 88.5" ht -Chief wants to add an attic wall on the low side (62.5") I simply converted it to a "solid" rail and set the height to almost nothing Attach is the plan - sorry I am in x7 x7 powder_room_roof.zip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evergreen Posted February 9, 2015 Share Posted February 9, 2015 The manual roof tool . as Robert had suggested is located within the roof toolbar. A better approach, IMO, is to know how this room fits into the rest of the house...It will, of course, require you to take some additional measurements...take some pictures of the house and then you can better design what you are after. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rlackore Posted February 9, 2015 Share Posted February 9, 2015 As Mike mentioned, the key is how the powder room fits with the rest of the house - the plan file confuses me because the roof makes me want to believe the room is a dormer with an exterior door that opens into space. I suspect that IRL the roof is rotated 180 degrees and the underside of the rafters is creating the sloped ceiling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AriseDesign Posted February 9, 2015 Share Posted February 9, 2015 OP said all required to draw was this powder room, there is no house context in this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rlackore Posted February 9, 2015 Share Posted February 9, 2015 OP said all required to draw was this powder room, there is no house context in this Not really, she simply said she's working on a bathroom. Either way, I suspect the powder room is attached to something, probably a house, and the best solution to her question depends on this relationship. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AriseDesign Posted February 9, 2015 Share Posted February 9, 2015 Not really, she simply said she's working on a bathroom. Either way, I suspect the powder room is attached to something, probably a house, and the best solution to her question depends on this relationship. "Joey....I am about to embarrass myself. These folks just wanted to upgrade a powder room to a full bath, so that is all I drew." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlenerene Posted February 10, 2015 Author Share Posted February 10, 2015 Thank you guys so much for the help I really appreciate it. To put into context the powder room is part of a much larger house. All I was hired to re-design was the powder room itself. At the time it didn't seem like a big deal, sloped roof how hard could that be right? Right? Yeah 4 hours later, watched the tutorial video and roofs still was evading me. Thank you very much for the help. Rlackore....your irl suspicion is very close to the actual reason it is how it is. Once this project is done I am going to spend a few more hours building roofs, just to play with them. Again I very much appreciate the help guys. Charlene Design to Shine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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