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05-16-2013, 05:53 AM #1Registered User Promoted
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Wall Niche
Hello,
I want to create a simple niche in the wall, that begins approx 2' above the floor and ends approx 2' bellow the ceiling, so the drywall and crown molding and baseboard that wrap the entire bedroom, will be continuous even while it passes the niche.
The way I figured to do it is cutting the wall, then adding a soffit on top, but then the crown molding doesn't wrap on the soffit?,
The plan is reachable through the dropbox link bellow.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/h3pf259q85...20May%2010.zip
Thank you in advance.Best regards
Daniel Brodsky
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05-16-2013, 07:00 AM #2
Use a "Doorway" then polyline soilds for top/bottom seat and top.
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05-16-2013, 11:08 AM #3Registered User Promoted
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05-16-2013, 11:19 AM #4
General plan defaults turn on " ignore casing for opening resize".
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05-16-2013, 12:49 PM #5
Soffits
I like to use Soffits, what I did is just take your soffit, then make it just the size of that niche, make sure it shoved in tight, then the copy and paste in place another one for the bottom and Wala, its in! The molding then just wraps itself
http://www.dmd3d.com/Download/340HillcrestMay10.zipDavid Michael
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05-16-2013, 01:39 PM #6Registered User Promoted
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Nice solution, Dave
As Scott might say - easy peasyRandy
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05-17-2013, 04:42 AM #7Registered User Promoted
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Thank you for the soffit solution, That is how I started, but I guess it was not perfect fit to the opening, therefore the molding and baseboard didn't wrap on the soffit.
Best regards
Daniel Brodsky
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05-17-2013, 05:25 AM #8
would the pass-through tool work ?
then place a polyline solid as the back ?
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05-17-2013, 05:27 AM #9D. Scott Hall (The Bridge Troll)
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05-17-2013, 05:36 AM #10
it would be nice if the pass-through tool has a setting for solid back
and allow a material to be assigned via the window dbx
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05-17-2013, 06:11 AM #11Administrator
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I'm not sure of all the limitations, but I'm wondering if one could create a custom window using the import symbol option that has a sheetrock back to it instead of glass.
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05-17-2013, 06:22 AM #12
Interesting idea. Limitation?
It may work for a niche in an interior wall (use glass as the back of niche but limited to one material that would apply to both sides of "glass". Definitely a limitation.
For an exterior wall, probably not possible to have it graphically correct in plan view, and again would have the limitation of only one material for backing, not possible to have drywall on inside and siding on exterior.
Conclusion, would be nice to have a preprogramed niche symbol with different materials on each side. Until we get that, there are already better solutions which in effect are workarounds.D. Scott Hall (The Bridge Troll)
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05-17-2013, 07:56 AM #13
Wall Niche for FREEeeeee
Hey Guys,
I was messing around trying to make a window into a symbol, then back into a niche... Here is what I was able to come up with.
WATCH THIS: http://www.dmd3d.com/VIDEO/Niche/Niche.html
iDevices Watch This: http://www.dmd3d.com/VIDEO/Niche/Niche.mp4
X5 Users Download the FREE Niche Symbols Here >>> DMDzNiche.zip
Last edited by DMDz; 05-17-2013 at 08:01 AM.
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05-17-2013, 08:22 AM #14
David:
thanks for the symbol
it still would be nice to have a niche tool built-in
new users would have to search the forum and stumble upon this thread
or post a query and hopefully someone would remember about this thread
if the tool were built-in ....
LewLew Buttery
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05-17-2013, 08:25 AM #15
Thanks David, you have been so helpful to more people than you know.
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