Chief Architect Changing Floor Level

You can easily create a split level in chief architect by controlling the floor and ceiling heights of different rooms in a plan.

Chief architect changing floor level.

Select a floor level of your choice then click the editbutton. However the floor and the terrain are not actually at the same height. To create a split first floor level launch chief architect and open a new plan. Make sure you are on the floor you want to modify then under the editmenu select default settings.

The appropriate default dialog will appear for the current active floor. Select build wall straight exterior wall then click and drag to draw a simple rectangular structure. Chief architect programs raise the building pad off the terrain for you automatically. You can easily create a split level in chief architect by controlling the floor and ceiling heights of different rooms in a plan.

Select edit default settings from the menu and in the default settings dialog expand the floors and rooms category select current floor and click the edit button. The amount that the building pad is raised depends on the type of foundation you have built in your plan. In chief architect both the floor height of floor 1 and the initial height of the terrain are given values of 0. Expand the floors and roomscategory expand floor levels then select the desired floor and press edit.

The program automatically raises the default floor height of floor 1 up above the default terrain. From the menu navigate to edit default settings. No foundation the distance between default floor height of 0 and the terrain is equal to the depth of the default floor structure thickness for floor 1. In the floor 1 defaults dialog select the structure panel and specify the desired value for the ceiling for the rooms on the first floor.

Set the ceiling or floor elevations as needed.