Story Levels representation

[Eduardo Rolon]

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".

[James Murray]

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.

[Djordje]

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

[Eduardo Rolon]

But mine is US not Int

[Djordje]

ejrolon wrote:
But mine is US not Int

So?

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

[Anonymous]

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... 🙂

[__archiben]

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

[Djordje]

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?

[Anonymous]

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

[Djordje]

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.