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Tree hierarchy: ... > Floor > Plenums

The Plenums tree object occupies the next highest position in the hierarchy below that of the Floor tree object. The plenums object is essentially a sub-floor occupying space above or below a room. Available plenum space is determined by two plenum default height settings in Defaults Manager or can be defined independently when using the room modeling tools. Plenums can contain multiple plenum room objects, each plenum room object is a ceiling plenum or an underfloor plenum independent of the room it is associated with. Plenums rooms are spaces like regular rooms, so they contain the same surface types including walls, ceilings, floors, partitions, and all associated sub-surface objects.



Plenums pop-up menu

The Plenums tree object provides context for additional options on the following pop-up menu:

SettingDescription
Hide plenums Used to turn off the graphical display of the selected plenum. All other plenums on the tree remain displayed.
Show plenums only Used to turn on the graphical display of the selected plenum only.
Delete Used to delete all plenums in the selected plenums object hierarchy.
Note: The Floor and Room objects contain options to add ceiling and underfloor plenums on their pop-up menus.