topic Re: Story Levels representation in Documentation

Story Levels representation

Eduardo Rolon — Tue, 30 May 2023 13:24:31 GMT

I do like that AC copied the story levels option from Revit, since it is one less thing to dimension, but AFAIK the "correct" way to represent the Base level should be 0'-0" without the ± sign (at least that is how I was taught).
± can give the contractor the wrong impression.
Is it 0'-0" or can it be almost 0'-0"?
Can the contractor say "well, the elevation says ± so 1" error either way is not my problem".

Re: Story Levels representation

James Murray — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 16:44:07 GMT

You're absolutely right, it doesn't make sense. The only time to use ± is to give a tolerance. ±0 is meaningless.

You can turn off the '+' in the settings of 'Basic Story Marker', which also gets rid of the ±, without affecting the negative sign. Or it wouldn't be too hard to hack the marker object itself. But they should still fix it.

Re: Story Levels representation

Djordje — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 03:28:36 GMT

Not in European notification. It is not meaningless ...

Re: Story Levels representation

Eduardo Rolon — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 03:54:03 GMT

But mine is US not Int

Re: Story Levels representation

Djordje — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 03:57:13 GMT

ejrolon wrote:
But mine is US not Int

So?

Mine is INT and has feet and inches. Should I complain?

Re: Story Levels representation

Anonymous — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 04:17:23 GMT

Is it possible to change the story levels standard, so that 0'-0" shows as 100'-0"? This is a standard convention, but i don't see this option.

Help please... 🙂

Re: Story Levels representation

__archiben — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 05:01:11 GMT

LINZ wrote:
Is it possible to change the story levels standard, so that 0'-0" shows as 100'-0"?

unfortunately not. the biggest improvement to these storey levels now would be to choose a level datum from the three reference levels defined in the 'Working Units and Levels' preference.

~/archiben

Re: Story Levels representation

Djordje — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 13:23:16 GMT

LINZ wrote:
Is it possible to change the story levels standard, so that 0'-0" shows as 100'-0"? This is a standard convention, but i don't see this option.

Help please...

You can set the stories to any elevation you want.

Or did I misunderstand?

Re: Story Levels representation

Anonymous — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 13:27:35 GMT

i solved this issue, by raising the model to 100'-0"...

Re: Story Levels representation

Djordje — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 14:00:17 GMT

LINZ wrote:
i solved this issue, by raising the model to 100'-0"...

... and now you have a problem when you have to specify the level of anything to the current storey now.

It is much cleaner to change the elevation of the stories. All the elements are still at the same relative height to a storey, the level dimensioning is automatic, as is the actual storey level.

Give it a try.

Re: Story Levels representation

TomWaltz — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 15:20:02 GMT

LINZ wrote:
Is it possible to change the story levels standard, so that 0'-0" shows as 100'-0"? This is a standard convention, but i don't see this option.

Help please...

It's a standard convention to lie about your floor levels?

Re: Story Levels representation

rengarch — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 01:45:37 GMT

Is there any way to edit the levels text and marker (copy, move, etc) in Section? even when the section/elev. marker is set to Drawing on the plan?

Re: Story Levels representation

Link — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 02:17:46 GMT

You can move them by right clicking on them and accessing 'Edit Story Levels' from the context menu. Keep in mind this is a modeless dialog, so don't hit OK until you are finished moving them.

Otherwise you can right click on nothing and selection Section/Elevation Settings... from the context menu to acess the Story Levels in Section Panel of the S/E Settings dialog.

Cheers,
Link.

Re: Story Levels representation

__archiben — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 02:23:47 GMT

TomWaltz wrote:
It's a standard convention to lie about your floor levels?

i take it you're kidding tom?!

i model my ground floor/storey 0 at project zero and then use the reference levels in 'Working Units and Levels' to offset all datum height levels down. i want the storey level markers to pick up the values from the reference levels so that i too can show my storey levels at their correct levels relative to the survey datum!

(the building i'm working on at the moment has a 'ground' floor at +94.000m)

~/archiben

Re: Story Levels representation

__archiben — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 02:26:41 GMT

Link wrote:
You can move them by right clicking on them and accessing 'Edit Story Levels' from the context menu. Keep in mind this is a modeless dialog, so don't hit OK until you are finished moving them.

also keep in mind that you will also be altering the storey levels globally throughout the project when you do this!

if all you're after is to move the graphical display of the levels it needs to be done in the section/elevation settings dialogue and will be applied to all level markers.

~/archiben

Re: Story Levels representation

Laura Yanoviak — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 15:06:50 GMT

rengarch wrote:
Is there any way to edit the levels text and marker (copy, move, etc) in Section? even when the section/elev. marker is set to Drawing on the plan?

See my wish on this topic: archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=12256&highlight=

~/archiben wrote:
i model my ground floor/storey 0 at project zero and then use the reference levels in 'Working Units and Levels' to offset all datum height levels down. i want the storey level markers to pick up the values from the reference levels so that i too can show my storey levels at their correct levels relative to the survey datum!~/archiben

This is what I do.