topic Re: Show On All Relevant Stories in Modeling

Show On All Relevant Stories

JKL — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 19:56:47 GMT

I am attempting to get my plumbing to show on the foundation. My employer wants the "Site" story above the "Foundation" story in the story settings within our template. So when I select all my plumbing objects I wish to show, I cannot select the display option for "home and one below", as below is the site. When I select all relevant stories, some of the items (namely, sinks) are showing but not the rest of the plumbing.

Objects are all on the same layer

Cut plane settings are correct to view (I can see the walls on the story above appropriately)
The sinks actually sit higher than the other items (toilets etc)

All obj settings are the same for what I can see vs what isn't showing

Aside from blowing up the model and switching my stories around or putting new objects on the foundation plan-neither of which I want to do-what can I do here to get all the objects to show correctly on the foundation?

I've a series of images below with a sink and toilet as example.

Thank you!

Traced elements here should be showing as sink is

But only sinks are actually viewable

sink settings

toilet settings

Foundation cut plane settings

Story settings

Re: Show On All Relevant Stories

Marc H — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 22:03:55 GMT

Coincidentally, I tried Site above Foundation on a recent project (the idea being a visible match between exterior and interior elements), but it created more issues than it solved.

Meanwhile, the ‘relevant stories’ is an unfortunate limitation I hope GS converts to a custom selection in which we can select applicable stories for our increasingly complex project elements. Maybe this will be part of the ‘split level’ roadmap improvements.

One workaround if you are forced to keep it this way may be to overlay two drawings on your layout; one for each story, with a gray GOR applied on the upper story view.

Re: Show On All Relevant Stories

Mahmoud Qenawi — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 01:08:09 GMT

Why you can't find ( Home story and one below) in your display options?

This is strange,

for me in 26 INT I've this option valid.

Re: Show On All Relevant Stories

JKL — Thu, 04 Jan 2024 15:31:31 GMT

Unfortunately, the options with home story and (+options) and custom are only options for slabs, beams and columns (I may be missing something else) in the US version. All other items are only home or all relevant. I would think everything should have the (+) options!

Re: Show On All Relevant Stories

JKL — Thu, 04 Jan 2024 15:33:06 GMT

This may work!

I think I'm going to have to reset the template to put the site under foundation to avoid future issues. Let me know if you come up with any good solutions keeping the story settings a visual match to the project!

Re: Show On All Relevant Stories

David Maudlin — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 01:00:32 GMT

JKL:

These are the options I see for WC 26. Are you using a different library part?

David

Re: Show On All Relevant Stories

Barry Kelly — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 05:06:40 GMT

This is not to everyone's taste, but I do not set up storeys for foundation and site.

I have a storey for the ground floor ant that is it.

I use layers for the foundation walls and the site elements (dxf site plan, 3D site mesh, etc.).

Then you set up some layer combinations to turn on/off the layers you want to see, and save a view for each layer combination.

To me storeys are purely for each floor level, i.e. ground floor, basement, first floor, second floor, etc.

I don't even uses storeys for ceiling and roof levels.

But that is just the way I like to work.

Barry.