topic Re: Two story walls? Full height or separate? in Modeling

Two story walls? Full height or separate?

Anonymous — Tue, 23 May 2023 12:48:18 GMT

General question.
If I have a tilt panel wall that is one wall that goes to roof level of a 2 level building. Should I make the wall full height as it should be or do I do a level 1 wall and a level 2 wall of the same properties/attributes?

Reason I ask is if I place a door on the second floor the door is placed on the ground floor if the wall is full height. Then I guess I have to give the floor to floor height on the door settings?
If I make them separate walls for level 1 and 2 it will put it on level 2 without altering the sill height

Which is the correct way to do it?

Thanks

Re: Two story walls? Full height or separate?

Barry Kelly — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 05:33:22 GMT

You might want to have a look at the window/door anchor.
You can lock the head or sill into the stories as well as the wall base.
Barry.

Re: Two story walls? Full height or separate?

Ernest Atanasiu — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 09:32:43 GMT

I suggest you should model 'as built'.
If you want to cut a section showing the wall and floor finishes, it's impossible with one double height wall.

Re: Two story walls? Full height or separate?

Karl Ottenstein — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 17:13:01 GMT

uisanata wrote:
I suggest you should model 'as built'.

Agree.

If you want to cut a section showing the wall and floor finishes, it's impossible with one double height wall.

Not sure what you're saying here. (I've never had an issue with sections looking different for stacked vs single walls.)

Karl

Re: Two story walls? Full height or separate?

Ernest Atanasiu — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 07:21:47 GMT

...then I must be doing something wrong.

in large scale drawings, the priorities of the composites' skins always give me headaches.

I should have said 'more difficult' instead o impossible.

Re: Two story walls? Full height or separate?

Laura Yanoviak — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 12:37:14 GMT

As a general rule, model as it will be built.

That said, multiple-story elements are an exception, not a rule. Controlling the floor plan view of multiple-story elements can be difficult, and modeling from floor-to-floor is typically the easiest work-around.