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".

[TomWaltz]

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?

[rengarch]

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?

[Link]

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.

[__archiben]

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

[__archiben]

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

[Laura Yanoviak]

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.