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Creating a custom sloped ceiling

Creating a custom sloped ceiling

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Creating a custom sloped ceiling

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- [Instructor] In this video, we're going to look at creating a complex sloping ceiling. Now, to create a sloping ceiling, you can use similar tools that you would use to create a sloping roof but there's one significant limitation that you need to be aware of. Unlike a sloping roof where you can actually have multiple edges that define slope, with ceilings, you can only have one. In order to create a ceiling that follows the shape of this roof up above, I'll need at least two ceiling planes. To help get us started, I've provided a few things here in the exercise file to begin with. I've got this small piece of ceiling right here and then over here, we've got some skylights on the roof. So if you look over here in this 3D view and I kind of zoom in over here, I added some walls on three sides and actually this is a sloping ceiling already. You can't slope a wall. What I've done is just made a little piece of ceiling…

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