Can I stretch vertically??

[Anonymous]

I'm working on a single family residence thats a little complex (6 changes of floor levels). It's an addition to an existing building, and the existing building had 3 different levels. We're adding new levels at each of the stair landings, totaling to the 6 levels. I set the story settings to 3 stories initially as I was drafting up the existing conditions plans.

My question is, what if one of the levels of my new stories changes? Is there a way to stretch the project vertically? I've been working more and more 3D, so I have toilets, shelves, walls, slabs, etc etc that all need to be manually changed in height if I alter one of the levels not on an actual story.

Do I want to add 3 more stories?

How important are story settings for everyone?

I've found that in the past altering the story settings midway through a project causes havoc, moving things that I did not want moved. I'm just looking for a little guidance on what people typically do...

[Gerald Hoffman]

Steven,

IMHO I think you are right in this case to consider not adding more storys at this point. I think I would add the information for the new half storey to the existing storey that is above it. That way you would be looking down on the new 1/2 storey level below. To me this would make the most sense visually I think. Storeys are obviously important for visualization of the plans and determining what you want to show in relationship to each level and I have had the same experience as you in trying to add a story into the project part way through. Sometimes you just have to do it and spend the time to adjust all the related elements.

One thing you can do to help in adjusting stuff on the different levels is grouping (temporarily) all the elements on a level and then adjust things in section with grouping active.

Hope this helps a little.

[David Maudlin]

Steven wrote:
My question is, what if one of the levels of my new stories changes? Is there a way to stretch the project vertically? I've been working more and more 3D, so I have toilets, shelves, walls, slabs, etc etc that all need to be manually changed in height if I alter one of the levels not on an actual story.

Do I want to add 3 more stories?

Steven:

I agree with the other posters that adding 3 more stories is not the way to go, just add the new floors to the stories that correspond to the existing floors you want them to be shown with. Assuming that you have layers for both new and existing to remain building elements, you should create a layer combination that locks the existing elements so that you can easily select the new work in the 2D or 3D window and use the Elevate command to move those elements up or down if the floor levels of the new work changes.

HTH

David