topic Floor plan cuts at specific heights in Modeling

Floor plan cuts at specific heights

Anonymous — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 22:58:41 GMT

Perhaps this is an obvious thing I am overlooking, but I need to cut a floor plan at a specific height and see everything above and below to a specific height, but within already set story levels. When I add new stories at the heights i need, it makes the entire building get completely messed up and separated. Am I doing something wrong? My professor is explicitly precise about what he wants and is unwilling to work with anyone who uses anything other than AutoCAD for all drafting, as he believes that it is the only way to accurately and properly show the plans of a building. Im already at a disposition doing everything in ArchiCAD, but I have paid my dues with AutoCAD and don't want to have to go back to it since I have began using ArchiCAD. Any help here would be great!

Thanks!

Re: Floor plan cuts at specific heights

Karl Ottenstein — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 23:31:53 GMT

Not really sure what you're after. What about the Floor Plan Cut Plane does not produce what you need to see?

Karl

Re: Floor plan cuts at specific heights

Link — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 23:57:33 GMT

Aggie, the Floor Plan Cut Plane (FPCP) can be set globally for all stories or individually for each story. The former is set via the Document menu. The Cut Plane Height to Current Story that you set there will be the same height from the bottom of each and every story in the project. Hence the 'global' setting.

But you can also create a view of any story and set the FPCP height for each individual view, via the View Settings. This way each story can have the FPCP at different heights.

Unfortunately there is no (easy) way to split the FPCP at different heights across the same story, unless you start overlapping/joining drawings together on a layout.

Cheers,
Link.

Re: Floor plan cuts at specific heights

Anonymous — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 02:29:40 GMT

Thats exactly what I needed, I didn't know you could set them different for each story.

Thanks!

Re: Floor plan cuts at specific heights

Djordje — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 18:04:13 GMT

aggie463 wrote:
Thats exactly what I needed, I didn't know you could set them different for each story.

Not only the storey, but the view. So you can have plans of the same storey with the different cut heights.