Directing 3D Elements to a Story

[Anonymous]

Hi,
When drawing in 3D; is there a way of locating an element in a certain story? Every element that I draw in 3D automatically goes to 1st floor. Even slabs that have the option of CURRENT STORY are placed at 1st story when the plan window is at 2nd story. If this is the way it works, so how every one else draws in 3D?
Thanks,
Joseph Harouni

[Anonymous]

Djordje wrote:
If you noticed - the inconsistency is, AFAIK, in the fact that in vertical (Z) transfromations R is used from a USER origin (try to change the height of a wll by grabbing the bottom hotspot) and that the R is measured from the currently placed origin, not the grabbed point. Think about it - it is the same way as in 2D, only vertically.

I hadn't noticed that it was relative to the user origin (it makes sense though); at least that's something. This is consistent with its use in the horizontal plane when the delta is unchecked, but I almost never use R that way. It seems that it should be responding to the User & Local origins (the delta setting) the same in all dimensions.

PS. I wish I could fly over and help you out with those deadlines. I've never been to the UAE. But, as usual, I have a similar load bearing down on me (and I am moving at the end of the month, and the office is moving at the end of next month, whew!)

[Djordje]

Matthew wrote:
PS. I wish I could fly over and help you out with those deadlines. I've never been to the UAE. But, as usual, I have a similar load bearing down on me (and I am moving at the end of the month, and the office is moving at the end of next month, whew!)

I am quite beyond help, but thanks for volunteering!

This week we are having pleasant mid 30s Centigrade, weekend promises mid 40s, more appropriate for the time of the year. So if you habitually feel cold ... you will feel cold here too, as the competition in whose AC can cool better has no winner! 😉

[Anonymous]

Djordje wrote:
I am quite beyond help, but thanks for volunteering!

Djordje,
If I can be of any help over the internet I am here, but mean while it seems that you are one of the few that can make sense of the 3D Element Placing, so here it goes another work out:
In page 34 of User Guide AC8, I am qouting:

"If multiple stories are displayed, then new elements within the range of a displayed story will be added to that story, while elements placed very high or very low will be added to the top or bottom story of the displayed range."

If this is true "within the range of a displayed story " so we can place a wall in 2nd story as long as we are zoomed in to that story, regardless of what story the plan is on and on top of that it will go to top or bottom of the displayed story. But I can not get it to work?
Thanks
Joseph

[Djordje]

Joseph wrote:
"If multiple stories are displayed, then new elements within the range of a displayed story will be added to that story, while elements placed very high or very low will be added to the top or bottom story of the displayed range."

If this is true "within the range of a displayed story " so we can place a wall in 2nd story as long as we are zoomed in to that story, regardless of what story the plan is on and on top of that it will go to top or bottom of the displayed story. But I can not get it to work?

This is true.

See my explanation, step by step, in a previous message. You have to specify the insertion/creation level of the new element (e.g. top of a slab, bottom of a wall, bottom of lib part) to be within the range of a storey, if there are no existing elements to snap to. A movie would explain this perfectly, but ... 😉