topic Re: The Elevator Object in Libraries & objects

The Elevator Object

TMA_80 — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 12:21:23 GMT

Hi archicaders !

I find the elevator object interesting, the option to make the elevator "read" the story height is great BUT...this option causes problem too, if i want to have a different height for a special level (not the same of the story), the object doesn't allow anything other than the story height, the "edit story" button doesn't even seem to work (the story height still greyed)...

am i missing something ?

thanks in advance

Re: The Elevator Object

Gerald Hoffman — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 01:12:40 GMT

You can always insert a story at your intermediate level as storys don't have to relate to actual storys in the building.

Cheers,
Gerald

Re: The Elevator Object

owen — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 12:34:56 GMT

One problem with inserting these 'dummy stories' is they stuff your stair display for stairs running past the mezzanine level.

This is just one of the problems with Stairmaker stairs which leads to people not bothering with it - they model stair in 3D on hidden layer and then do the 2D symbol manually.

Re: The Elevator Object

TMA_80 — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 23:39:41 GMT

hi again and thanks !

the only flexible solution as mentioned in an earlier post; is to have the elevator object from the 9th edition of AchiCAD library....the new one is usless in my case (even though it gives more options especially for 2d ) ...

...GS Please fix it .

to be continued

Re: The Elevator Object

Anonymous — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 23:13:48 GMT

mm really, now I'm facing this problem.

In my project I have two separate buildings, with different heights. I need elevators in both buildings and seems it it not possible to use the elevator "outside" the defined stories.

Anybody has managed to solve this?

Thank you!!

Re: The Elevator Object

Anonymous — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 22:31:05 GMT

Search with "multiple building story heights".

The general idea is to make use of hotlinked MOD files
to bring in a "building" with different story heights
than the the building you are working on. Of
course the MOD file can be a partial building or
even just an elevator.

Snap

Re: The Elevator Object

Anonymous — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 01:45:16 GMT

Snap wrote:
Search with "multiple building story heights".

The general idea is to make use of hotlinked MOD files
to bring in a "building" with different story heights
than the the building you are working on. Of
course the MOD file can be a partial building or
even just an elevator.

Snap

I suspect that this would not work since the elevator part will adjust to the current project and story height settings.

Re: The Elevator Object

Erika Epstein — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 04:19:27 GMT

You can use the elevator object with its walls set to show for the building whose floors match the stories.
For the other building just turn off the walls in the elevator object and build the shaft walls with the wall tool.

Re: The Elevator Object

Anonymous — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 09:31:51 GMT

Erika wrote:
For the other building just turn off the walls in the elevator object and build the shaft walls with the wall tool.

Which is something you should do anyway if you want to get correct quantities from your model.

Re: The Elevator Object

Frank Beister — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 06:59:43 GMT

Best would be Elevator would be an opening object, that cuts opening and dorrs directly into the wall. 😉

Shouldn't be as hard to implement...

Re: The Elevator Object

Anonymous — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 12:57:21 GMT

Thank you all for replies, seems Erika's solution is working fine.

Re: The Elevator Object

Achille Pavlidis — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 15:53:10 GMT

F. wrote:
Best would be Elevator would be an opening object, that cuts opening and doors directly into the wall. 😉

amen

Re: The Elevator Object

Anonymous — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 09:19:13 GMT

seasons greeting everyone. i am newbie in archicad. what about creating elevator with north opening at level 1 and south opening at level 2?

Re: The Elevator Object

David Maudlin — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 13:30:43 GMT

yvan79:

For the Elevator 14 object, you need to edit the parameters, particularly General Settings > Direction of Second Opening, and Door > Name of Story to be Edited and Door Position of Edited Story. It may take a bit of time to get everything correct, but it is possible.

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David

Re: The Elevator Object

Anonymous — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 01:38:50 GMT

Thanks for the guide....really appreciate it....