topic Re: Level Marking in Section and Elevation for a Site with Multiple Buildings in Documentation

Level Marking in Section and Elevation for a Site with Multiple Buildings

Lingwisyer — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 09:07:51 GMT

https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Document-articles/Level-Marking-in-Section-and-Elevation-for-a-Site-with-Multiple/ta-p/336729

Since their object was open source, I modified it to allow for more flexibility. Would be nice to be able to Call loaded storey markers, but I could not figure out how to override the text...

Ling.

Re: Level Marking in Section and Elevation for a Site with Multiple Buildings

Djordje — Wed, 22 Mar 2023 10:59:25 GMT

Thanks!

Love your signature... when it breaks, watch out for the pieces flying... they might be sharp!

Re: Level Marking in Section and Elevation for a Site with Multiple Buildings

Lingwisyer — Tue, 04 Apr 2023 09:23:12 GMT

Updated the object to allow for the marker line to be moved and added an option to swap ground from 0 to 1.

There is an issue with the basement arrays though... One is not updating and the rest are only updating when the number of storeys is changed rather than when the number of basements change...

Ling.

Re: Level Marking in Section and Elevation for a Site with Multiple Buildings

Lingwisyer — Wed, 12 Apr 2023 09:01:49 GMT

Fixed the basement arrays not updating.

Added origin horizontal offset.

Fixed custom name numbering.

Re: Level Marking in Section and Elevation for a Site with Multiple Buildings

Lingwisyer — Mon, 17 Apr 2023 03:31:52 GMT

Retain custom settings when toggling base reference

Added option to snap to project zero

Re: Level Marking in Section and Elevation for a Site with Multiple Buildings

Mathias Jonathan — Mon, 17 Apr 2023 09:28:30 GMT

Tried your object, but archicad don't want to open/charge it.

EDIT: Was a problem with my zip extractor, file ok!

Re: Level Marking in Section and Elevation for a Site with Multiple Buildings

Lingwisyer — Fri, 21 Apr 2023 08:33:24 GMT

Added option to flip individual marker heads

Added notes about adding your custom marker heads

Fixed hotspot positions when a vertical marker offset was set before turning off said marker

Re: Level Marking in Section and Elevation for a Site with Multiple Buildings

Lingwisyer — Wed, 26 Apr 2023 07:23:38 GMT

Fixed individual flip hotspots interaction with global flip

Added option to split names across two lines

Re: Level Marking in Section and Elevation for a Site with Multiple Buildings

Lingwisyer — Wed, 03 May 2023 01:13:35 GMT

Added option to snap to project storey stucture

Added option to use project storey names

Added option to toggle off individual storey grids

Storey names retained when toggling reference storey

Bug: Toggling reference storey results in an error which can be resolved by increasing then reverting the storey count.

Re: Level Marking in Section and Elevation for a Site with Multiple Buildings

Lingwisyer — Fri, 05 May 2023 04:46:02 GMT

Fixed some overlapping hotspots.

Fixed prefix numbering when ground is zero.

Bug: for some reason the grids default to "0: Off" even though the array generation should be asigning a default of "1: On"...

Bug: for some reason the basement marker offsets are shifting storey when toggling reference storey...

Re: Level Marking in Section and Elevation for a Site with Multiple Buildings

Mathias Jonathan — Fri, 05 May 2023 08:18:26 GMT

Thank you for this object!

2/3 observations on my part:
The use of hot spots is still not totally clear for a normal user

The "marker offset" hotspot is complicated to find/understand
The "Section length" is much easier to find thanks to its positioning between two floors

Could the displayed messages be clearer?
They display 1/-1 (necessary in GDL if I understand correctly) instead of over/under or on/off : could they display text instead?

Re: Level Marking in Section and Elevation for a Site with Multiple Buildings

Lingwisyer — Fri, 05 May 2023 09:27:43 GMT

The "marker offset" hotspot is complicated to find/understand

Forgot about that hotspot. I have now offset it similar to the "Section Length" hotspot. Might naming it to "Object Origin Offset" be better?

display 1/-1 instead of over/under or on/off

Are you talking about flipping of the marker, which current shows 1000/-1000 since 1/-1 wasn't working properly? I was actually wanting to completely remove the display text as the visual feedback is more than enough, but that does not seem to be possible... The only way I can think of to get it to say over/under would be to populate another text array which would be more effort than it is worth... I am also having issues currently with offsetting array values when you toggle the reference storey, as well as the default values when stories are added. Same reasoning for the grid toggle having the static "Off/On" relating to the 0/1 feedback. Display parameters also do not work with values{2}...

Ling.

Re: Level Marking in Section and Elevation for a Site with Multiple Buildings

Mathias Jonathan — Fri, 05 May 2023 12:19:17 GMT

I remember an Object from olivier Dentan that was displaying letters instead of numbers. I will investigate.

I took the liberty of doing a test by moving the points that change the height and hide the level.
I find that there are too many points on the story line, so I moved them slightly above and below the story.

Re: Level Marking in Section and Elevation for a Site with Multiple Buildings

Lingwisyer — Fri, 05 May 2023 13:55:08 GMT

The storey height hotspot needs to be on the line in case you want to snap it to something. Could offset the toggle ones. I only have access to ac22 and 23 so I am unsure what else you might have changed. Hide the level? Could put a toggle to for each type of hotspot, which I have done on other objects.

Re: Level Marking in Section and Elevation for a Site with Multiple Buildings

Mathias Jonathan — Fri, 05 May 2023 14:06:35 GMT

I saved it in archicad 23.

The storey height hotspot is offset before initiating the modification , but when you click on it, the height modification is not shifted.

Re: Level Marking in Section and Elevation for a Site with Multiple Buildings

Lingwisyer — Fri, 12 May 2023 08:07:08 GMT

Update:
- 50 new lines, 2 new arrays. Marker flip and grid toggle now have a text output.

- Primary hotspots now have a static ID. ie. the storey height one.

- Grid lines can now be snapped to.

Bug:

New grids default to hidden...

Woops. Had a min where there should have been a max. That's been fixed now.

Re: Level Marking in Section and Elevation for a Site with Multiple Buildings

Lingwisyer — Thu, 18 May 2023 08:43:11 GMT

- Added ability to offset grids from Project Storeys.

Other than figuring out why some things are defaulting to hidden, I think that is it.

Re: Level Marking in Section and Elevation for a Site with Multiple Buildings

Lingwisyer — Fri, 19 May 2023 08:25:32 GMT

Fixed grid end hotspots not zeroing when marker head was offset but off.

Re: Level Marking in Section and Elevation for a Site with Multiple Buildings

Mathias Jonathan — Fri, 19 May 2023 08:34:10 GMT

Hi!

I have a bug using the "use project storey" option

Re: Level Marking in Section and Elevation for a Site with Multiple Buildings

Lingwisyer — Fri, 19 May 2023 08:37:59 GMT

The arrays sometimes do not refresh when toggling that option, as well as the reference only option... You can get around this by adding then removing additional storeys.

ps. Are you using display scaling? The text descriptions should not be cropping...