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Creating a Detailed Reflected Ceiling Plan: Step-by-Step Guide

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Now let's take a look at our reflected ceiling plan sheet. We're going to do the same thing with the other ones. We'll go ahead and turn on that overall plan guide grid.

Now let's take a look at our reflected ceiling plan sheet. We're going to do the same thing with the other ones. We'll go ahead and turn on that overall plan guide grid.

We're going to find our ceiling plan. I believe we were working on level two here. And we're going to go in and do a few things.

Number one, we've got to set that Scope Box so we don't have to reinvent the wheel on this. And then I'm going to grab my Scope of Work line, copy that, and paste it in. OK, and then we'll just finish out some of these dimensions that we've already started here.

So these ones we're going to use—this is all at quarter inch, so it looks good here. But I'm just going to bring everything in a little bit tighter so that you can actually read it here. And so these guys will be at this point here, just dragging them down.

These are ones that we created previously. And then I'll bring some of these lines down here. These are a little misleading as well.

OK, and then I want to make sure I have an overall dimension for each of my portions of the ceiling. So I'll bring this guy in here a little bit. And it does get a little tricky, you know, once you get a lot of these lines in here because we've got grid lines, we've got these guidelines, and so you want to make sure you're trying to keep it as clear as you possibly can without having too many overlaps.

And so there's our overall. And then we don't see the walls above here. And so what we could do is if we change our view just temporarily to wireframe, you can see the walls.

And we can use the Linework tool from the Modify tab, and we can use the Overhead line style. And I can modify the outside one so that you can see that there's a wall above. And so by using that, I can now go back to hidden line.

And you'll see that there's a wall above there. And I can go in and I can actually add a dimension to it. And so you can identify that wall.

OK, so I'm going to add these dimensions here just to kind of round it out. And they are equal. We'll just go ahead and set them to be equal.

And that's what we're going to do for our ceiling plan. And let's put it on the sheet. And we'll follow that same process where we move it from the grid intersection to the intersection on the guide grid.

And then we'll make the adjustments to the view title so that it lines up with the way we want it to. And there we go, we've got our ceiling plan all ready to go. Next is going to be building elevations, sections, renderings, and our title sheet.

And then we'll be ready to print our PDF.