Half a hole

[ARCHIJEF2000]

Does anyone know how to make a hole half way though a wall. not an opening but a depression cut out of the wall but not all the way through.

[lbuttery]

Try this thread and the thread it points to:

http://www.chieftalk.com/showthread....ighlight=niche

Lew

[Tommy Blair]

Have you tried putting an open box or cabinet a couple of inches deep and assigning sheetrock to materials? Control/drag into the wall.

Tommy

[ambrozac]

Is it a recessed opening? What shape are you looking for? In the picture is a custom doorway, recessed into the wall. I'm sure any shape can be done this way and set however deep into the wall.

[ambrozac]

Is this closer?

[ARCHIJEF2000]

Nice one Cliff. have you been banging your head against the wall( trying to get rid of the living room area) , I like the dent thing. I tried your suggestion with custom doorway symbols. Here's one I made earlier.



I made this in Chief, and then used Sketchup to layer it, although can probably all be done in Chief. I made sure the thickness of the object was the same as the wall I would use.It was imported as a doorway, and seems to work well



Curiosly I found when the thickness of the wall was increased the Doorway symbol increased in sympathy.

P.S Just like to make it clear to new viewers, a "doorway symbol" is not necessarily anything like a door frame, and it could be practically anything, here we are talking about a technique

[ARCHIJEF2000]

While we are on the subject is there a way of applying this method to ceilings(recessed lamps)

[ambrozac]

Yes, I have been banging my head. I may be starting to think like you! Actually, I believe you gave me the idea to do this. I had in the past seen some of your's and Tim's window symbols and your terrain features making a pool. Incorporated the two ideas and made the doorway. However, I see no useful purpose it would serve other than to test your imagination and understanding of the program.

I'll work on the recessed can idea, but the best solution, I believe, came from this thread.

http://www.chiefarchitect.com/chieft...d&pagenumber=2

[ARCHIJEF2000]

Yeah the idea of using a doorway compleatly passed me by, I should have known.
I can now see that cutting a hole in the ceiling is no problem at all, and thanks to Tim O D s little triangle idea, as small as you want. To plug the hole in the floor upstairs, just copy the hole once and convert this into a slab, select a height that is equal to the height of the upstairs floor( see room specification dialog box), and assign a thickness that is less than that of the platform above.

[ARCHIJEF2000]

different kind of niche, made from terrain

[lbuttery]

Is this using the terrain feature - hole ?

Or something else ?

Lew

[ARCHIJEF2000]

This is a raised region then a flat region inside this, then a road added on this flat region.
Here's a project I'm working on the front of the house is a symbol made from terrain, the holes are made by placing bits of road then deleting before making a symbol.
I always say there's nothing quite like a home you hewed yourself