What is the best way to setup structural framing plans? I want to do floor framing plans with the floor below shown dashed. This works fine while drafting and using the ghost story shown below but getting it to plot right is another matter.
Right now I'm using RCP plan for showing walls on the current story and coping the walls up from below and changing the cut wall line type to dashed. is there a better way?
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And Karl, since when was Yoda an autobot?
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s2art wrote:Oh right. Well that's what I do too.
Yes, MVO's but not necessarily relating to GDL objects, just to show walls as continuous over openings "Show opening only, with contours"
I just read his post as that he expected the RCP to look up and see the floor framing above.
Nevertheless, I think it's clear now!
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If I understand info. correctly he's asking for something I have been doing for quite a while..........ghosting separate floors, above and below, in my layout. My Archibot finally gave in and built it into my template for for me and it works wonderfully. It doesn't really take long to set up and tweaking is easy. Well worth the time. Now this is all in ver. 10, in 11, you
If you can print in color it gets much more manageable. Gray scale can sometimes just add to confusion instead of alleviating it. In the attached screen shot you'll see I include a "pen legend". [This does require you to set up different pen sets in your layout options but once done it pays off triple with clearly defined ghost stories.] Also you can see the "stack of stories in my second floor framing demo. With color you can show more than one relative story at a time, should you want-need to, just taking care to set display prefs for visibality. This helps with the builder but become an invaulable benifit with my engineer!
If you can print in color it gets much more manageable. Gray scale can sometimes just add to confusion instead of alleviating it. In the attached screen shot you'll see I include a "pen legend". [This does require you to set up different pen sets in your layout options but once done it pays off triple with clearly defined ghost stories.] Also you can see the "stack of stories in my second floor framing demo. With color you can show more than one relative story at a time, should you want-need to, just taking care to set display prefs for visibality. This helps with the builder but become an invaulable benifit with my engineer!
Well Joseph, it's just how it works for me. I tend to use RCPs for trim-beam-detail work and lighting. And setting my stories at top plate to top plate heights, I prefer to keep the floor framing with the associated story.
The flexibility is what drove this setup for me. It allows me to set up my layer combinations in more "predictable" groupings and still allows me the output with ghosts. [For me trying to include/exclude pertinent framing to display became overly complex.] And, my work is all residential SFR, so simplistic is the rule if possible, which in effect is the part I think I like best
With the ghost views saved in my layout book I can copy and paste them as needed, in any combination, any time, [multiple stories], with any desired layout.
Just another way to go..........
The flexibility is what drove this setup for me. It allows me to set up my layer combinations in more "predictable" groupings and still allows me the output with ghosts. [For me trying to include/exclude pertinent framing to display became overly complex.] And, my work is all residential SFR, so simplistic is the rule if possible, which in effect is the part I think I like best
With the ghost views saved in my layout book I can copy and paste them as needed, in any combination, any time, [multiple stories], with any desired layout. Just another way to go..........
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