leonarddan1 Posted May 17, 2017 Share Posted May 17, 2017 I have finally figured out how to create a cupola. I have created a youtube video on how to do it. You can find it at https://youtu.be/FlU4H5F8wE8 The key is when you build the roof you must make sure the auto-rebuild is turned off, and that you have already created the cupola. It's hard to explain it just in a brief paragraph and the video explains it much better. I'll do my best to answer any questions I can. I'm surprised that no one has figured this out as it is fairly simple once you get the hang of the concept. It did take me several hours, but I finally did it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
solver Posted May 17, 2017 Share Posted May 17, 2017 53 minutes ago, leonarddan1 said: I'm surprised that no one has figured this out How do you know no one has figured it out? You never asked. Something is wrong with the video -- says it's unavailable. Here is one I just did. Used 3 floors, the center one having invisible walls and located in the attic area of the first floor. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leonarddan1 Posted May 17, 2017 Author Share Posted May 17, 2017 You are right. I shouldn't just assume nobody figured it out. I wasn't trying to be critical. I fixed the problem with the video. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
solver Posted May 17, 2017 Share Posted May 17, 2017 How about duplicating your post in Tips & Techniques. Here are a couple of tips. CAD lines are useful for centering when there is nothing else to center to. You can see one at the top and one on the right of the image. Center them on the room, for example, copy and paste on the floor above. You can now center things easily in reference to the floor below. When using Pro, you could use the Roof Cuts Wall At Bottom option on the cupola walls. See the roof plane highlighted, and how is been pulled under the cupola wall. This cuts the wall and keeps the walls from showing on the inside. For the image I showed in the post above, I used 3 floors. This technique can be used if you don't have Pro. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveRegis Posted 20 hours ago Share Posted 20 hours ago I'm dredging up some history because I found this very useful, yet it falls just short of my needs. In my project the ceilings above the main room are vaulted, and the method shown above doesn't quite work for that... I unchecked the "Flat Ceiling Over This Room" option in the structure for the intermediate floor (clerestory). Is there a work-around for this? I never got it to work, so I modeled the cupola structure as a separate file, exported to DAE and then imported it into my main project. This is pretty cumbersome, and you have to create roof openings at the ridge, and that leaves an artifact. Here's what I ended up doing for my project... - Interior and exterior showing vaulted ceiling and the artifact left between the roof openings at the ridge Cupola model I created using Home Designer: Anyway... my work-around was very fiddly especially when aligning the interior walls where the cupola model was meeting the roof opening walls. To complicate things further, the other structure on the project has two residential wings that are set at 45-degrees... the software really struggles with roof openings through vaulted ceilings unless the structure is set orthagonally. Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
y-g-m-n Posted 7 hours ago Share Posted 7 hours ago Did you try making those cuppola as a DORMER? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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