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Sea level or reference level?

Mats_Knutsson
Advisor
In Story Settings, do you use sea level zero and first floor +35765... or do you use first floor at zero and reference level 1 is -35765?
Out of curiosity!
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Laszlo Nagy
Community Admin
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I would always try to use 0.00 for the Ground Floor Level and use Reference Levels for anything else (like -105.00 for Reference Level 1 - in Hungary, we have to give real height values relative to the level of the Baltic Sea).
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Karl Ottenstein
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See also this post by Link:
http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?p=125490#125490
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