Fun with skylights

[Gene Davis]

We love building skylights into houses, and now I am into the skylight part of my self-education in Chief.

I have watched and then watched again, the video tutorials I have for my V10, and practiced the basics. No problemo.

But now I am wondering what it takes to do the manual workarounds for things we do routinely that don't fit the standard Chief patterns.

How is the skylight vault handled when it intersects ceiling planes? A simple example is shown in the attached B&W Chief section. I cannot find a way to edit the flat ceiling that is not being intersected with the vault.

How is a single vault done for ganged skylights, so that the member or members between skylights is something like only 6 inches depth, versus the depth and shape of the vault sides? See the Sketchup model screencap, attached.

One more. How about when a sloped ceiling has a skylight vault, and it is desired to bring an adjacent flat ceiling, due to its proximity, into the vault to enlarge it? How would you do this? See the screencap from my Sketchup model.

Your advice and help, as always, is appreciated.