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Ceilings are selected in the Visual View if the Floor / Ceiling Visual Layer is currently set to Ceiling on the Visual View’s Top Toolbar. For further information on the Floor / Ceiling Visual Layer see: Visual View Top Toolbar
Ceilings can also be selected within the Data-Grid within the Floor tab.
Ceilings share the Select Parent context-menu item similar to most objects (or it’s 🖱 Double Left-Click mouse shortcut). In this case, the action selects the parent Zone of the Ceiling.
Deleting
Ceilings cannot be Deleted, instead they must be Merged back together with any Split ceilings of the zone. Ceilings are merged by using the Merge Drawing Mode which is explained in further detail in Split & Merge Drawing Mode
Geometry
Area, Pitch & Pitched Area
For raked or sloped ceilings within a zoneZone, the pitch Pitch can be entered in the Pitch column of the Ceiling dataData-grid Grid in degrees.
This is the internal pitch Internal Pitch of the Internal Ceiling layer Layer of the assemblyCeiling, and not the pitch of the roofExternal Roof. The pitch Pitch of the roof material External Roof of a Ceiling Assembly is set by Hero automatically and cannot currently be adjusted.
Geometry
The pitched area Pitched Area of a ceiling Ceiling is shown in the dataData-grid area Grid Area column in square metres and represents gross area not accounting for any Skylight area.
The area Area is the pitched area Pitched Area, in that any pitched Pitch entered in the pitch Pitch column will automatically adjust the 2D area of the ceiling as shown in the Visual View Ceiling to account for the increase in area by any slope or raked ceiling. For example in the project shown the Ceiling of this Zone is 100m2 with a flat ceiling. If the ceiling was pitched at 30 degrees then we can see that the area 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
Splitting Ceilings
Ceilings can be split Split into separate ceiling Ceilings within a zone through various means.
Firstly they can be split Split manually by the user using the Split Drawing Mode feature (which is dealt with in a separate section of this tutorialSplit & Merge Drawing Mode ). This is typically performed when the ceilings Ceilings across a zone have differing properties such as assembly Assembly or construction Construction, or insulation Insulation or external colour or adjacency. For example, in this project shown, we have a ceiling where the kitchen & living area form one single zone, however External Colour or Adjacency.
E.g. In the Kitchen/Dining/Living Room below which is modelled as a single Zone, the Ceiling changes from an Attic type
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(i.e. Ceiling is adjacent to a Roofspace Zone), to a “Raked” Flat
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Roof Ceiling section (i.e. is not adjacent to a Roofspace).
To model this situation, we would split the
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Ceiling into two using the Split Drawing Mode feature (set to
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“Split Ceilings Only” Sub-Mode), and then assign the characteristics of the Flat
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Ceiling as required within the Ceiling Data-Grid.
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Ceilings are also split automatically by Hero when any adjacent floors are detected on the level above. This can occur after a new zone has been created or when floors or ceilings are moved.
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