Multi-sloped ceiling...

[SupremeTaco]

Yay! I have yet another jumble of angles in the back of this theater that I've been working on.

Here are a few screenshots of this in 3ds max, and a floor plan of it. you can probably start to see about what it's supposed to look like... Any ideas???

[SupremeTaco]

Oops one of my walls wasn't set up right in the screenshot... here's the same shot w/ the fixed wall (it's easier to tell the slope of the crease this way)

[grant.doherty]

What you might try is taking your 3D Max file into Revit and use it as a overlay to create a "Ceiling In Place".

[Dimitri Harvalias]

From the look of it they are simple sloped planes so you can create a series of ceiling sketches and add slope arrows.
If the pieces are warped or curved in any way you can create an in-place ceiling family. That gets you a solid piece of geometry that Revit treats as a ceiling.
To make it a 'layered' assembly you could cheat and make it a roof by face. You would still need to create a mass object to drape it over but at least it would read as having several layers.

[SupremeTaco]

Well I have battled this ceiling for a couple days now (off and on for 30 minutes here and there amidst my other work of course) and still can't get it. The ceilings are not just sloped in one direction, so I can't just have it slope down at a certain angle. If there were a way I could edit this like a roof and pull up individual corners to whatever elevation I choose, that would make life a bit easier, but it doesn't seem to work that way. Anyway, I'm still stuck...

[Dimitri Harvalias]

Any way you can post a file with the boundign walls and maybe we cna give you a hand.

[dbaldacchino]

Is this a warped ceiling? Is it built with acoustical tiles or is it a solid ceiling, such as gyp? Keep in mind that if you can't resolve the form in your head, it might be difficult to communicate it to Joe the ceiling guy ;)