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Add "Ceiling: Edge" functionality

Add "Ceiling: Edge" functionality

Please add the functionality to create Ceiling Edges. Other categories already have additional functionalities like walls (sweeps, reveal), floors (edges) and roofs (gutter, soffit). It will be very useful to model fall ceilings, cornice mouldings, floors which need to have an insulated ceiling from below with extensions at the wall and wrapping of the beams...

23 Comments
steiner
Advocate

@KentBurns you're right. sometimes rediscovering good ideas whom the workarounding process pushed into forgottenness...

J_Hubb
Explorer

Wild this idea hasn't been implemented yet. It's hugely limiting to not have a ceiling sweep or profile ability. Drawing walls as soffits for every ceiling height change is such a huge time waster, doing it the first time and then having to manage it every time a ceiling layout changes slightly is a huge task that eats through hours.

dw_greyblock
Contributor

The inconsistency across the system fams seems a little odd - floors and roofs have edge functionality, ceilings don't. Fascias can follow sloped edges, gutters and slab edges can't. (Except make the floor flat and add the slab edge, and then make the floor sloped, and now slab edges can slope?) Ceilings and floors can have a single sketch line defining a slope, roofs can have multiple sketch lines defining a slope. Floors and roofs have shape editing, ceilings don't.

 

I assume there are historical reasons as to how and why it ended up this way, and given the lack of action on ideas like this one I continue to assume no one at Autodesk can actually touch any of the code without everything falling apart, but man is it annoying not having a decent workflow for something as basic as ceilings with cornices. 

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