Ceiling Trays

Ceiling Tray Overview

Video Transcript:

 Now that we have completed placing our bearings, we’ll demonstrate adding a tray ceiling.  If the work lines are currently visible you can turn those off from within the options bar.

Let's begin putting in the tray ceiling. Right click and from the menu select ceiling tray. This particular tray ceiling is going to be 12 feet by 13 feet, and we're going to place that at 2 foot 6 off of the walls.

Set the horizontal anchor to be Left and our Vertical anchor to be the Upper.

The tray height is going to be one foot.

So, enter 9 foot 1 and an eighth for the bottom. So starting with this as the bearing height. Then going up 10 foot 1 and an eighth. For the side angles, we will set this at 90 degrees so, to be a vertical pitch.

For this particular case, we're working with a 90-degree angle. Our first step is to place the tray correctly. Let's click to place the tray in the upper left corner of the room. Once positioned we will make our necessary adjustments of the X and Y coordinates.

We need to adjust the existing X coordinate of 0-3-8. And do the same for the Y coordinate, which will be 59-3-0. What we can actually do here is use the coordinate field like a calculator function. So for the X coordinate we are going to add into the box, a plus sign, then add a space, followed by 2-6-0, Representing 2 feet 6 inches. Press enter to accept this X value. There, you see that it moved to the right.

And for the Y coordinate, we actually need to move it down. So enter a minus sign, then a space, followed by 2-6-0, again representing 2 feet-6 inches. Press enter or tab to accept. We can see the new location of the tray.

Now let's check our work in 3D.

All right, so everything looks good.

we have the front porch. with a 4/12 pitch, the back room 3/12, and then we've got our tray ceiling we just added.

That concludes our video on tray ceilings! We hope this has given you a clear insight into how you can effectively incorporate these features into your project.

Thanks for watching.

Add Ceiling Trays

Step 1 - Create Tray

Click the + Create button or right-click in empty space and select Ceiling Tray

Tip

You can also use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + Q + T to quickly begin inserting a Ceiling Tray .

Step 2 - Define Tray Properties

Use the inputs for Width, Length, Bottom Elevation, and Top Elevation to define the ceiling tray dimensions

Note

The tray will not appear in the scene until a position is selected.

Step 3 - Position the Tray

Use your mouse to pick a position in the scene. Once you've selected your coordinates, you can use the Horizontal/Vertical Anchor controls to move the tray around this position.

Tip

Use Work Lines to help you define a basepoint for your Tray

Step 4 - Insert the Tray

Once defined and positioned, click INSERT to finalize the tray.

Delete Ceiling Trays

To delete a ceiling tray right-click it in the scene and choose Delete Tray or select it in the Collection Subpanel and click the delete button.