Help: Walls Ht vs Story Ht

[Anonymous]

Hi,
I'm starting a new project. I have three walls that cross through the First Floor plane. My issue is how to 3d model with a minimum of 2d drawing redraws. What has worked best for you?

Almost all my projects have these issues, normally I create partial ht walls that reside entirely in their home story, but then I have tons of issues being able to select, modify or represent correctly in layouts.

I appreciate any sharing of how you or your office handles these situations. Thanks so much for your time,

Snap

See attached for three walls that dont live easily on one single story.

[Erika Epstein]

Options>Project Preferences> Working Units> Reference Planes.
Here you can enter the courtyard and the Garage as the 2 other reference planes.
Each time you insert an element such as a wall, piece of furniture etc. you choose the elevation and to which reference plane it is being inserted.

The cutting plane for any floor or ceiling view cannot be staggered. You will still cut through the walls of each of these three spaces at the same elevation height.
You can get the correct plan look by choosing the correct setting such as symbolic or projected etc for the walls and/or each element.

This has been discussed here quite often, so you might do a search for additional views and more detailed explanations.

[David Maudlin]

snapcrackle:

To add to Erika's comments, for options for the wall display in plan, search for Floor Plan Cut Plane in the ArchiCAD help files and this forum.

David

[Anonymous]

Erika and David,

Thank you for answering my question even though it has been the
subject of previous threads. I'll be running that search now.
Reference plane is the cat's meow for this situation.

Cheers,
Snap

[Erich]

Assuming your patio is made of a slab, roof, or mesh then you can also use gravity to set items directly on the surface without creating additional reference planes.