Please help! Adding a ceiling is usually a piece of cake but i’ve spent numerous hours with no progress on this model with many non-90 degree angles and I wonder if this is why it is not letting me add the ceiling. I diligently click from endpoint to endpoint (green dots) with my “line” tool but I n…

If the edges of the walls are all coplanar, you should be able to simply trace around the edges to create a closed loop and face. Make sure your walls are grouped first. If that isn’t working upload the model file so we can help you sort out why it isn’t.

Thanks Dave. Hmmm maybe that’s what the issue is — coplanar edges, but how do I check that? My walls are grouped, although I have several groups within groups when I tried to make partially leaning walls (with success in only one instance…I gave up on the kitchen walls). So the issues can be several…

Here is my model. Thank you. Hufelandstr. 12_WIP~~~.skp (16.0 MB)

Red Arrow indicates where idges are not coplanar: [image] [image] [image]

There is also a gap between the glass door component and the wall on the right.

I can’t open 2021 files yet, but as a routine method of practice, I hate tracing over stuff that’s already drawn. It’s easier to enter a group like the wall, double click to select the top surface, copy, exit the group, paste in place, and group that to start the next object to become the ceiling. …

[image] VictoriaS: … with my “line” tool but I never get the ceiling shape There are two locations that need to be corrected, both mentioned by @j.lehman and @Anssi . Other than that it shouldn’t be difficult to trace the perimeter to close the ceiling. [Screenshot 2021-03-12 at 02.53.41] …

Thank you. I added that sloped wall just yesterday, but have been trying to put a ceiling on before and it still didn’t work. So in addition to that there must be another issue why the lines don’t connect.

Thank you. I also thought of that idea — just to place a rectangle on top and somehow cut the stuff I don’t need: I tried once, didn’t succeed and gave up. I will try again. When you are saying it’s easier to enter a group like the wall and double click to select the top surface — I don’t have the …

Hmmm on my very first try I had the same result but I Cmd Z because I didn’t get the ceiling over the bathroom and the top kitchen cabinets and from that point I tried about 50 times and could never even get to the same point as on your screenshot again. I appreciate all the answers but I still don…

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Thanks very much for that, it looks very useful but I don’t quite understand what it achieves, would you please clarify? Thank you!

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