Defining rooms to create customized designs: adjust floor and ceiling heights to create split level or split entry designs, create custom room types, custom flooring and material regions, bearing walls and stepped foundations.
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The basics of creating floor plans – rooms, walls, ceiling heights, dimensions.
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The basics of adding additional floors and building foundations in Chief Architect
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Specify which walls are bearing walls and use the Build Foundation dialog to create a variety of foundations.
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Use the settings in the Room Specification dialog to set floor and ceiling heights.
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When creating your second and additional floors, you will want to set the defaults for that floor's structure.
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In your designs you may want to divide a room using different floor materials.
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Create a brick ledge for a slab foundation, crawlspace or full height foundation
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You can specify the thickness and framing materials used to construct floor and ceiling platforms on a floor-by-floor basis in the Framing Defaults dialog.
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Set Wall defaults to allow the floor platforms to hang from a ledger.
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Use wall settings to extend the siding and sheathing layers down over the foundation slab.
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You can create custom room types and assign those room types specific attributes.
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Learn how to adjust terrain for a walk out basement in this video.
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Place a bearing wall in the crawlspace of the foundation and frame it using these instructions.
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Use the Hole in Floor Platform tool to cut an opening in the floor platform.
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Learn how to model a basement foundation with a custom furred wall type. Two ways to support the floor platform above are also demonstrated.
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A split level, or tri-level, structure is a building where the floor level in one part of the plan is located approximately half way between the floor and ceiling levels of another part of the plan.
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A split level entry, or divided entry, is characterized by an entry door that opens onto a landing positioned half way between the basement floor and first floor levels.
