Multiple story settings

Anonymous — Thu, 25 May 2023 15:44:35 GMT

Hi All,

Hypothetical situation.
I have a steeply sloping site upon which I want to place multiple buildings.
These building would obviously have different FL's than each other and would each consist of several story's and/or half story's.
Would I:

1 - Set up a gazillion story's in 'Story Settings' to correspond with each level that could possibly exist across the site. This would absolutely fall apart as far as I can see because each wall/slab/window/everything would only rise to the next consecutive story set up for the adjacent building, which could be 500mm FL difference. I think not.

2 - Set up one standard building story setting, and individually move each building in the Z-direction to conform to the site conditions. This would be really painful to manage as it would obliterate the automatic floor height/slab height/ intersections/ symbol heights that ArchiCAD loves so much. Advantage - Levels would be consistent on the drawing sheets and allow all basements to appear when the Basement story is active.

3 - Have a 'Story Setting' for each building that one could synchronise across drawing sheets but would allow each building on the site to be organised as Graphisoft intends.

4 - Discover something terribly complicated like xref's, that would allow me to build each building in its own file, then arrange them on the larger scale site plan.

5 - Do something really clever that ArchiCAD has developed that can allow multiple buildings to exist in the one drawing on a site that isn't perfectly level, proving to a schlub like me that ArchiCAD can cater to situations that may be considered 'abnormal'

Thanks for your help and please disregard my snippy email 'tone'
Nick.

Re: Multiple story settings

vistasp — Mon, 23 May 2011 10:14:30 GMT

Hi Nick,

Have a look at this thread:
http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=24347

You'll need to read up on HLMs a.k.a. Hotlinked Modules.

Re: Multiple story settings

Anonymous — Tue, 24 May 2011 01:59:55 GMT

Aha..
It looks like hotlinking will solve a lot of my organisational ills.
I could probably be a convert if this all works.

Thanks for your help.
Nick.

Re: Multiple story settings

Link — Tue, 24 May 2011 05:41:06 GMT

NickMcLeod wrote:
Aha..
It looks like hotlinking will solve a lot of my organisational ills.
I could probably be a convert if this all works.

Thanks for your help.
Nick.

I just posted this regarding hotlink moduling, which may help.

Cheers,
Link.

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