wall height vs ceiling height

[JostArchitects]

ceiling height of 15', interior wall heights i want to be at 8' - how do i do it?

[Gary Doski]

Set the ceiling height for the room to be 15'

Then use solid railings and set their height to 8'

[JostArchitects]

so use railings as interior walls?

[Gary Doski]

Yes, but set them to SOLID

[PTV]

Hi Gary,

Could you please elaborate why use railings instead of interior walls?
Is that a workaround to avoid some CA issue?

Cheers,

[DougM]

Casue you can't set wall heights without dragging them down in other than plan views....why is beyond me.

[lbuttery]

I avoid "pulling walls" like the plaque.

done wrong can really mess up the wall

we should be able to set bottom of wall and top of wall in the wall dbx
like Frank has been requesting and to be able to set wall height

Lew

[DougM]

I do to Lew, how CA missed this one is Incomprehensible.

[Gary Doski]

Adjustable wall heights is something that people have been asking for since I can remember. (1995)
But a solid railing works well to get the desired results.
I don't look at it as a work around, but i guess it is.

You could build the whole floor at the 8ft height, then in elevation views drag the perimeter walls to 15 ft.

[joey3032]

I'm a little confused...I use the elevation camera to pull walls down all the time. I have never had an issue. Why would you use this workaround? Why are we instruction people to use workarounds?

[Doug Park]

I'm confused too. It seems like maybe we are talking about more than one problem here.

In general you don't want to edit wall heights. They are best controlled by setting the room height and letting roofs cut them off.

Editing wall heights is sometimes required such as in the case that Joey shows and in a few obscure cases where the automatic generation doesn't create a correct intersection with a roof.

You could certainly use a railing in this case as well.

[ebdesign]

Actually, pulling wall tops/bots up/down is the work around. Chief's terminology ("solid railings") is a little weird, but you ARE defining the top of the wall w/ the railing specs. & Chief puts a cap on top of the wall too if you want one.
Rarely should you need to pull wall tops/bots from their default values if you have your rooms & walls defined properly.
JMO
Jim

[lbuttery]

Actually, pulling wall tops/bots up/down is the work around

Jim:

I agree 1000%

Using railings is also a workaround and requires multiple steps

Please let us set wall height in the wall dbx, along with BOW and TOW

Lew

[nyallj]

Actually, pulling wall tops/bots up/down is the work around

Jim:

I agree 1000%

Using railings is also a workaround and requires multiple steps

Please let us set wall height in the wall dbx, along with BOW and TOW

Lew

I rather suspect that won't be allowed.

Doug states why:

I'm confused too. It seems like maybe we are talking about more than one problem here.

In general you don't want to edit wall heights. They are best controlled by setting the room height and letting roofs cut them off.

Editing wall heights is sometimes required such as in the case that Joey shows and in a few obscure cases where the automatic generation doesn't create a correct intersection with a roof.

You could certainly use a railing in this case as well.

I want to believe that because roofs (why isn't that rooves?) and ceiling heights are defined by room definition dbx, being able to adjust individual wall heights would cause no end of fault reporting CA support would have to troubleshoot. Especially: "...letting roofs cut them off"

I could be wrong.

[DougM]

I thought we were talking about short walls, such as used for a room divider, perhaps in a bathroom to isolate the toilet from the rest of the bathroom,
A knee wall/ short wall for a breakfast knook or even a 42" high bar wall. Whats the big deal to be able to adjust a wall height in wall dbx. And why are so many against improving how to work with walls instead they would rather bring a deck railing inside. Yeah I do that in real life. No wonder the material list gets messed up. And how did ROOVES get into this while on the subject of INTERIOR short walls?