Model Ceilings
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Why Model Ceilings exists
Modelling ceilings is repetitive in the least interesting way. Sketch a boundary that matches the room you already drew, set a height, pick a type, move to the next room. Do it eighty times on a floor plate and you will have made at least one boundary that does not match its room, which somebody finds later in a reflected ceiling plan.
How Model Ceilings works
Open the floor plan for the level you want and run Model Ceilings.
Every room visible in that plan appears in a list with its number, name and area - unplaced rooms, zero-area rooms and rooms belonging to another level are filtered out automatically. A room hidden or cropped out of the view will not be listed either.
Set a default ceiling height in metres - it starts at 2.60 and accepts anything from 0 to 20 - and a ceiling type once. Ceiling families named as roofs or soffits are excluded from the list so you are choosing from real ceiling types.
Override the height on individual rooms by typing into the row - custom values are marked so you can see which ones differ from the default.
Tick the rooms you want and the tool creates one ceiling per room, using the room boundary as the sketch. Rooms that already have a ceiling near the target height are skipped and reported, so re-running after a partial pass does not double up. The whole run is one undo entry, and if nothing is created there is no phantom entry left behind.
The summary reports how many rooms were selected, created, skipped and failed, along with the ceiling thickness.
Before
Ceilings are sketched room by room, and the boundaries drift from the rooms they are supposed to match.
After
Ceilings come from the room boundaries themselves, so they match by construction, and exceptions are typed into a list rather than remembered.
When to reach for it
- Getting a first pass of ceilings into a model quickly so reflected ceiling plans can be started.
- Buildings with many similar rooms at one ceiling height and a handful of exceptions.
- Rebuilding ceilings after a room layout change.
What it does not do
- It works on the active floor plan's level. A multi-storey building is done a level at a time.
- Rooms must be placed and enclosed - a room with no boundary has nothing to sketch from.
- It creates flat ceilings at a set height per room. Sloped or stepped ceilings are still modelled by hand.
- Complex room boundaries can produce ceiling sketches Revit refuses; those rooms are reported rather than silently skipped.
- If Revit will not accept the height on a particular ceiling type, the ceiling is still created - at level height, with no offset - and that room is named in the summary so you can fix it.
- The boundary it sketches to is the finish face, which matters if you are checking ceiling areas against a finishes schedule.
- The roof and soffit exclusion is an English name match, so on a localised project a type named Dach or equivalent stays in the list.
- On a workshared model there is no checkout pre-flight - a room locked by another user fails on its own and is listed as an error.
Questions
- Can Revit create ceilings from rooms automatically?
- Revit's automatic ceiling mode picks up a bounded area when you click inside it, one room at a time. This does the whole level in one pass, reading each room's boundary, with per-room height overrides.
- Can different rooms have different ceiling heights?
- Yes. A default applies to everything, and typing a value into an individual row overrides it for that room. Overridden rows are highlighted so the exceptions are visible.
- Why is a room missing from the list?
- Unplaced rooms, zero-area rooms and rooms whose level is not the active view's level are filtered out, because none of them can produce a sensible ceiling on this plan. The list is also built from what the view shows, so a room hidden or cropped out of it will not appear.