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Floor plan cut plane questions.

Anonymous — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 09:45:07 GMT

Hi all,

I'm trying to build a house with two levels in the same floor:
first level is 0.00
second level is -0.45

My problem is that my ground floor level in the floor settings is 0.00 and because of that I cant view the walls which start at the level of -0.45.
I've been searching the options of the Floor plan cut plane but couldn't find a solution.

Has anyone encountered a problem of this before?

Re: Floor plan cut plane questions.

Anonymous — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 10:33:05 GMT

Jet wrote:
Hi all,

I'm trying to build a house with two levels in the same floor:
first level is 0.00
second level is -0.45

Unit?

Re: Floor plan cut plane questions.

Anonymous — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 18:33:29 GMT

It sounds like (if I understand the issue correctly) that you could view the walls on the lower level if you set them to display on 'home story and one story above' - that would be done in the wall settings.

Re: Floor plan cut plane questions.

Ignacio Azpiazu — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 18:57:09 GMT

For typical buildings, the easiest and probably still the best way is going old-style by default, making all walls 'Symbolic' and showing them 'Home Story Only' (Wall Settings > Floor Plan and Section > Floor Plan Display) --and switching them individually to any of the other options when you need them specifically for some funky mezzanine or other multistory element situation.

When you have steps and split levels the floor plan drawing convention actuallly follows the levels, you don't have a true 'cut plane' for the whole floor/story. In that situation the 'cut plane' often makes a mess of the conventional floor plan representation.

Re: Floor plan cut plane questions.

Anonymous — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 21:35:48 GMT

Make sure the home stor(e)y is set to the level you want the walls displayed, and not "automatic" or the -0.45 level walls will display on the level below.