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Ceiling soffit tip

Ceiling soffit tip

- Let's take a look at what happens when you have ceilings at different heights. So, I have a really simple example here. I've got an acoustical ceiling tile here at one height and then I have a drywall ceiling dropped down below that. That gives me this gap here that I'm going to need to fill in. The easiest way to do that is to use a soffit wall, so you just create a small, little wall, and you fill in those little gaps there. I've already got one of those walls drawn here; I've just got it hidden, so if I reset my temporary height, isolate there, you can see I've got this small, little wall here. It's using the Soffit Wall type. It's got a Base Offset at eight and a Height of one. Okay, so that's important, because otherwise, it would be drawn down here on the floors, so by using a base offset of eight, it puts it up at the height of the ceiling, which is also at eight. So, let's draw the one in the other direction. I'm going to go to my Reflected Ceiling Plan to do this, and I'll…

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