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Ceiling Points can be moved around within the Visual View by left-clicking & dragging the ceiling pointsCeiling Points. If there is a floor sharing this point, it will also be moved. Similar to many move actions, holding shift ⌨ Shift-key while moving will lock the move in a straight horizontal ↔ or vertical ↕ direction.
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Auto-Merge Note that at the end of a move, Hero performs a check for whether the |
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Ceilings within |
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aZone should |
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Merge. This feature is required to reduce the number of |
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Ceilings that get created through splits & moving points. A |
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Ceiling will automatically merge back into other similar |
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Ceilings if they share similar properties such as Assembly, Insulation, |
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Colour & Adjacency type. If you have just split a |
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Ceiling and then are trying to adjust the points of the |
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Split, to avoid this |
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Auto- |
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Merging of similar |
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Ceilings you should change the properties of the newly split |
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Ceiling to the different properties that it represents before doing the move point, otherwise you’ll merge the newly split |
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Ceiling and have to repeat yourself. |
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CEILING CONSTRUCTIONS
Similar to Walls & Floors, Ceilings have a Construction or Assembly as well as Ceiling Insulation & Roof Insulation Options that defines the material makeup of the Ceiling for Simulation. Theses are discussed in further detail in the Data-Grid section below.
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Assembly | Hero has a variety of Default Ceilings Assemblies that can be used, and these are visible within the Construction column of the Ceiling Data-Grid. The current assemblies includeAssemblies include assemblies of the following Types:
Changing the Assembly type in the Data-Grid may change the Adjacency type of the Ceiling if required such as when changing from a Flat Roof Assembly which has a External Adjacency to a Roofspace Assembly which changes the adjacency to Roofspace adjacency. Internal Floor/Ceiling ConstructionsWhen a Ceiling has an Adjacent Floor above it, such as on a two-story dwelling, or between two apartment dwellings, the full material buildup for the Assembly is determined by both the Floor & the Ceiling’s properties. An Internal Ceiling can only have a plasterboard ceiling or exposed ceiling Assembly applied to it; and the internal Ceiling will not be able to have Insulation applied to it in the Data-Grid. If this internal Floor/Ceiling is to be insulated, the insulation is to be applied to the Floor above. The complete material build-up that will be simulated is the Floor Covering followed by the Floor Assembly followed by any Floor Insulation followed by the Ceiling Assembly below. | Ceiling Data-Grid Assembly Column |
Type | In addition to the Construction or Assembly of the Ceiling, the Ceiling Data-Grid also contains a Type column that is used for reference & information but that if changed in the combo-box drop-down, will change both the Assembly and Adjacency Type to the relevant defaults for that Type as required. | Ceiling Data-Grid Type Column |
Ceiling Insulation | Ceiling Data-Grid Ceiling Insulation Column | |
Roof Insulation | Ceiling Data-Grid Roof Insulation Column | |
Ceiling Pitch | Area, Pitch & Pitched AreaFor raked or sloped ceilings within a Zone, the Pitch can be entered in the Pitch column of the Ceiling Data-Grid in degrees. This is the Internal Pitch of the Internal Ceiling Layer of the Ceiling, and not the pitch of the External Roof. The Pitch of the External Roof of a Ceiling is set by Hero automatically and cannot currently be adjusted. The Pitched Area of a Ceiling is shown in the Data-Grid Area column in square metres and represents gross area not accounting for any Skylight area. The Area is the Pitched Area, in that any Pitch entered in the Pitch column will automatically adjust the 2D area of the Ceiling to account for the increase in area by any slope or raked Ceiling. E.g. In a Zone with 100m2 floor area, if the Ceiling Pitch was entered in the Ceiling Pitch column as 30 degrees, then the Area automatically adjusts to 115.5m2 | Ceiling Data-Grid Type Column |
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External Colour | The External Colour (and it’s associated Solar Absorptance) of a Ceiling can be selected within the External Colour column of the Ceiling Data-Grid. | Ceiling Data-Grid Colour Column |
Adjacency | The Adjacency Type of the Ceiling (see below for full details) | Ceiling Data-Grid Adjacency Column |
Roofspace Ventilation | Ceilings with a Roofspace Adjacency can toggle the Ventilation Rate of that Roofspace Zone through the Ventilation column of the Ceiling Data-Grid. Roofpsace Zones & Ventilation Rates are described in further detail in the Zones section. | Ceiling Data-Grid Roofspace Ventilation Column |
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