Adding a new story

[Anonymous]

Having added a new story in between other stories, my walls, roof etc all went haywire.

Coming from Revit I wasn't expecting everything to increase in height by putting a new mid level in.

What's the best practice/way to achieve this without screwing all the existing walls, roofs etc in the project up.

E.g. there's an existing Ground Floor, First Floor and Roof Level and I want to put in a new level between the First Floor and Roof without the roof etc going up in height

[Barry Kelly]

Try adjusting the 'Height to Next' figure of your inserted storey to zero so that the roof is at its original level (if you have not adjusted the height o next of the first storey).
Or you need to change the 'Height to Next' of the first storey and the inserted storey to add together to equal the height of the roof storey.

Basically you don't want the figures for the roof storey to change.
The height to next of the first storey and the new storey must add up to the original height of the first storey - otherwise you are raising the height of the roof.

Barry.

[Anonymous]

Thanks Barry.

I've got it to work but I had to manually amend the other 2/3 levels above my new one.

Is there a way of bypassing the height to next impacting the levels above?

For example, if say there were 50 stories and you needed to add another between levels 0 and 1, can you do it without impacting/having to amend all the levels above?

[Barry Kelly]

Only by inserting the new storey with a zero height to next.
A storey doesn't actually need a height to be able to use it - you can still add full height walls or whatever you need.

As soon as you insert a storey with a real height you are pushing all the other storeys above higher - I guess this is logical.

Storeys don't have to be floor to floor heights - although personally I prefer to do that and use layers for walls above/below the main wall in that storey.
You also have the Floor Plan Cut Plane to adjust the display of elements above, below or cut by that FPCP.

As I mentioned before the heights to next just need to add up to allow the main floor storeys to be at the levels you want.
By adding these intermediate storeys you may find you have to be more careful when linking the height of top of elements (i.e. walls) - specifying the storey you want to link to.

Barry.