Crown molding to follow vaulted ceiling

[TennVol]

How best to have the crown molding follow the vaulted ceiling and also eliminate the horizontal crown molding on this wall?   Thanks.

 

[ericepv]

To remove the molding from just one wall, open the DBX for the wall and in the 'General' tab, check 'No Room Moldings Interior/Exterior'. To get the crown to follow the vault, until Chief adds that option, you'll have to draw it as a polyline and convert it to a molding.

[TennVol]

Thanks. Was hoping the vaulted molding may now have been an option, and I just missed it. Oh well... 

[DBCooper]

Actually, it's pretty easy to do this.  Just select the room with the crown molding and use the "make room molding polyline tool".  This tool will convert the automatic room molding into a custom molding so that you don't have to draw it yourself.  Then make an elevation view looking at the wall with the vault.  All you need to do is add a beak point in the middle and just drag it up to the peak.

 

 

[TennVol]

Thanks. Didn't think about that. I'll give it a go.

[joey_martin]

As a designer that is in the field weekly visiting our job sites, I can tell you 100% that the trim carpenters will be telling stories about the jerk designer that thought it was cool putting crown molding on a vaulted ceiling. I am one of those designers....sadly....I don't do that any longer.

[javatom]

It is not possible to install crown on a vaulted ceiling (in the real world).  You will hear from know it alls that it is possible but it will look bad.  It is just a geometry problem of multiple angles that can not line up.