Finishes in the slab and wall tools

[Anonymous]

Finish materials like hardwood flooring don't extend to the edge of floor slab, but are defined as top of a story. If hardwood flooring is included in the slabs thickness, it would seem to interfere with the height of exterior walls and the area of the finished floor. The same issue exists for finishes on ceilings? Any suggestions how to deal with this?

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Peter wrote:
Finish materials like hardwood flooring don't extend to the edge of floor slab, but are defined as top of a story. If hardwood flooring is included in the slabs thickness, it would seem to interfere with the height of exterior walls and the area of the finished floor. The same issue exists for finishes on ceilings? Any suggestions how to deal with this?

i typically only model structure to begin with, and then clad or finish it as necessary. top of slab is top of structure is storey zero. having discovered the CADimage accessory tools which make short work of cladding a building, it brings the BIM philosophy closer: build it like they build it (right mr murray? ). the finishes can then be put on different layers that are turned off for the general arrangement drawings but turned back on for more detailed documents . . .

modelling structural only with slabs, walls and roofs means that you get quick, clean sections from which you can then dimension structure sizes equally as quickly.

somewhere in the forum - if you use the search button at the top - tom waltz posted a diagram outlining modelling conventions - the 'how, what and when' of storey usage - which may give you a kick start in conventions that help you work more efficiently.

[if you insist on working with composites though, set the walls down by the thickness of the finish and then subtract them using SEOs: will help clean up your sections, but i don't find this method so efficient in the long run . . .]

welcome to archiCAD talk!

cheers
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