What is the best way to show a reflected ceiling plan?

[TArchit]

What is the best way do show / extract a reflected ceiling plan from your model?

 

Can you flip the direction a design layer is viewed in a viewport so that it looks up rather than down? 

[rDesign]

Searching the forum for "reflected ceiling" brings up a multitude of results, one of which is this:

There is also this KB article:

 

In response to your 2nd question - no, you cannot 'flip' the direction of a viewport as you ask. Properly setting the Class visibilites is the way to create Reflected Ceiling plans.

Edited May 7, 2017 by rDesign

[Jim Smith]

What we end up doing is similar; turn off the Sills Class, Place all elements in a series of Ceiling Classes  & filling in the wall hatch in the Annotation Layer where a Door or Window would break the wall. What would work best is if one could manage the "Section Cut Height" properly for a Viewport (say 1900 or 7'-6") that way one would not see a door swing, and walls wouldn't be broken by doors & windows. 

[Matt Overton]

You can fake flip the model by adjusting Layer stacking in the viewport. This only helps if you break each of your stories in to floor, walls(+spaces) and ceiling at a minimum . As it allows you change stackings and show the slab/structure above below the ceiling. 

 

Personnaly we show door swings on RCP's to avoid services clashes and electricians putting the light switch on the wrong side of the door.

 

 

[Jim Smith]

Matt, we actually have two RCP plans, & one has some furniture, millwork & Door swings in Grey