topic Re: Siteplan in Modeling

Siteplan

Anonymous — Tue, 30 Mar 2004 11:44:06 GMT

Does anyone know if it is possible to make a plan/story that show all the other stories f.ex siteplan with everything on it. That is without using camera unless the camera can be set as ortographic. (?)

Re: Siteplan

Anonymous — Tue, 30 Mar 2004 12:24:42 GMT

I not sure I understand what you want to do, but...

If you want to show all the stories side by side, you could hotlink them all into a single story of a separate PLN.

If you want to show them in a stacked relationship, you could increase (temporarily) all the floor to floor heights and make an isometric 3D view.

Re: Siteplan

Anonymous — Tue, 30 Mar 2004 12:39:00 GMT

I guess I could maybe get what I want in an axonometry view. But what I'm really looking for is to have a window just like the other stories only I want to show all stories in one, like a rotated elevation maybe. f.ex. I see the roof and I see the balconies from the story under and even the stairs on the ground floor .....get it?

Re: Siteplan

Djordje — Tue, 30 Mar 2004 18:13:08 GMT

Arild wrote:
I guess I could maybe get what I want in an axonometry view. But what I'm really looking for is to have a window just like the other stories only I want to show all stories in one, like a rotated elevation maybe. f.ex. I see the roof and I see the balconies from the story under and even the stairs on the ground floor .....get it?

... and the purpose is ... ?

If you want to lay out the plans etc, PlotMaker is the real place.

If you want to see all the stories "through" each one, that is not so easy in ArchiCAD, but is easy again in PlotMaker - just make all of them transparent, including the fills backgrounds.

Caould you post a screenshot of what you want to achieve?

Re: Siteplan

Anonymous — Tue, 30 Mar 2004 19:29:51 GMT

Arild,

Are you looking for something like the attached? I just inserted additional stories at about 10m each to explode the building vertically.

Re: Siteplan

Anonymous — Tue, 30 Mar 2004 20:53:05 GMT

Arild wrote:
Does anyone know if it is possible to make a plan/story that show all the other stories f.ex siteplan with everything on it. That is without using camera unless the camera can be set as ortographic. (?)

The camera can be set directly above and then the distance to object increased digitally to a very large number. I did it once ages ago.

But maybe you would be happier to set the roofs to be 'visible on all stories'.

Re: Siteplan

aahatimo — Tue, 30 Mar 2004 21:16:50 GMT

nice work matthew!

Re: Siteplan

Tom Krowka — Tue, 30 Mar 2004 21:51:50 GMT

Matt:

How did you insert the stories. That is a great isometric. Did you start a new plan, then insert each floor as a module some distance apart?

Or, did you separate each floor (temporarily) like you mentioned in an earlier post.

Thanks.

Re: Siteplan

Anonymous — Tue, 30 Mar 2004 23:19:04 GMT

No modules. (Though that would work too.) I just modified the file I was working on for the demonstration. I have used the technique for real before. It's really nice for lease management and construction phasing.

Just go to the Options > Stories > Story Settings (command/control-7 by default) and insert the stories.

I would recommend to delete them after you are done, as it is easier just to reinsert them the next time than to navigate through them in the meantime.

Re: Siteplan

Djordje — Wed, 31 Mar 2004 07:23:58 GMT

Matthew wrote:
Just go to the Options > Stories > Story Settings (command/control-7 by default) and insert the stories.

... or change the distance to the next storey to twice or thrice the current value.

Re: Siteplan

Anonymous — Wed, 31 Mar 2004 18:01:37 GMT

Djordje wrote:
Matthew wrote:
Just go to the Options > Stories > Story Settings (command/control-7 by default) and insert the stories.
... or change the distance to the next storey to twice or thrice the current value.

I already mentioned that approach earlier, but I think the insertion approach is better since it makes it easier to revert to the correct floor to floor heights (it saves having to remember them).

If the exploded view is going to be reused and updated through the course of the project, merging the stories into a separate file is probably best.