Sectional seating is nothing if not flexible. You are now ready to further customize the plan, or take the knowledge you have gained and apply it to your own parapet design.Colorful decor and easy projects give this living room a showstopping summer look.Īll it took to give this room a summer makeover was a few splashes of color and creative furniture rearranging.A new yellow and seafoam green color scheme brightens walls and accessories using clever and affordable tricks. Once all of the railings are matching exterior materials with the wall below, you can select 3D>Material Painter> Material Painter to display the Select Material dialog, browse to an appropriate material, and apply it to the handrails for the tops of the Half Walls as well.With the Material Painter spray can tool active, click on the exterior of each railing to change it to the same material as the wall below.Click on the exterior wall material for the wall below the railing to select that material, activating the Material Painter in Component Mode, which changes your mouse cursor to look like this.Select 3D> Material Painter> Material Eyedropper.To Change the Materials of the Parapet Walls in a Camera View While still in your 3D camera view, you can change the materials associated with your railings to match the rest of the house.
In Home Designer Pro, select 3D> Create Perspective View> Perspective Full Overview.
Next, select 3D> Create Camera View> Perspective Full Overview to see your flat roof parapet wall structure thus far.
Browse to an appropriate material, then click OK to apply the changes so it is visible in the Room Specification dialog for the Floor Finish.įor the purposes of this example, we used the Asphalt 2 material.Go to the Materials panel and select Floor Finish, then click the Select Material button to display the Select Material dialog.On the Moldings panel, uncheck Use Floor Default and click on the Delete button to remove the Default Base Molding if one is applied.In the Room Specification dialog, on the Structure panel, verify that the Finished Ceiling is set to 36" and then uncheck Flat Ceiling Over This Room and Roof Over This Room.Using the Select Objects tool, click in the middle of the second floor room, and then select the Open Object edit button to display the Room Specification dialog.Now that we have completed drawing in the parapet walls on Floor 2, we are ready to modify the room that makes up the inside of the parapet. Once you have completed these changes, click OK to apply them and close the Railing Specification dialog, and repeat the process for the remaining three Half Walls on Floor 2.Make sure that you do not set the Railing Height value higher than the Finished Ceiling Height you specified earlier, or the Railings will not display correctly. Select Build> Wall> Straight Half-Wall and draw four half walls in a clockwise manner directly on top the reference for the first floor walls to make a simple enclosed rectangular structure.With Floor 2 active, select Tools> Floor/Reference Display> Reference Display, or press the F9 hotkey keyboard shortcut, to see how the second floor relates to the first story.To create parapet walls over the first floor Once the first floor is created, we are ready to begin on creating the parapet for our second floor. After clicking the OK button, the 2nd Floor Defaults dialog will display, which allows you to enter in a value for the Finished Ceiling.įor the purposes of this example, we will set this value to 36".In the New Floor dialog, choose Make new blank plan for the 2nd Floor to create a new floor work area and click OK.Select Build> Floor> Build New Floor from the menu to open the New Floor dialog.In this example, the Brick-6 Wall Type was used for four exterior walls. Select Build> Wall> Straight Exterior Wall and draw four walls in a clockwise manner to make a simple rectangular house.How do I create a flat roof with parapet walls?įollow the instructions below to create a flat roof structure with parapet walls. The information in this article applies to: