Hi All,
Hypothetical situation.
I have a steeply sloping site upon which I want to place multiple buildings.
These building would obviously have different FL's than each other and would each consist of several story's and/or half story's.
Would I:
1 - Set up a gazillion story's in 'Story Settings' to correspond with each level that could possibly exist across the site. This would absolutely fall apart as far as I can see because each wall/slab/window/everything would only rise to the next consecutive story set up for the adjacent building, which could be 500mm FL difference. I think not.
2 - Set up one standard building story setting, and individually move each building in the Z-direction to conform to the site conditions. This would be really painful to manage as it would obliterate the automatic floor height/slab height/ intersections/ symbol heights that ArchiCAD loves so much. Advantage - Levels would be consistent on the drawing sheets and allow all basements to appear when the Basement story is active.
3 - Have a 'Story Setting' for each building that one could synchronise across drawing sheets but would allow each building on the site to be organised as Graphisoft intends.
4 - Discover something terribly complicated like xref's, that would allow me to build each building in its own file, then arrange them on the larger scale site plan.
5 - Do something really clever that ArchiCAD has developed that can allow multiple buildings to exist in the one drawing on a site that isn't perfectly level, proving to a schlub like me that ArchiCAD can cater to situations that may be considered 'abnormal'
Thanks for your help and please disregard my snippy email 'tone'
Nick.
