The best way to define levels in a building with difficult changes in elevation

[scervera33]

I have found in this project that the structural engineer has provided 10 different levels to organize the different floor slabs of the project. It is a complex project due to the terrain. The thing is, from an architectural perspective, I would only handle 3 levels: the ground floor, the upper floor, and the roof. However, I am unsure of the best way to define them, as for the ground floor, as seen in the section, there is no line that captures all the spaces properly. How would you resolve this?

[Christophe Fortineau]

Hello @scervera33,

If it deals with the same volume > it deals with the same level.

About this project I think there are 4 levels :

-1., 0., 1. and 2.

[scervera33]

If the project is organized this way, when arranging the views of the architectural plan, two of the volumes will not be displayed correctly, as they would obscure the last two. In this case, is there a way to organize the visualization of all four volumes in a single view?

[Christophe Fortineau]

Hello @scervera33 ,

I do not think so and you are able to change the level cut plan for each view. With only one level you are able to create as level cut plan as you need.

[jl_lt]

I would make ground floor the one where the sectioned stair begins. That way you can look up or down no more than 1.5m aparently and it will display correctly. 

upper floor and roof look ok. make sure slabs are in the correct level, even if your lowest upper slab is quite near to your highest ground slab.

you could also add a couple of levels but then you would have to stitch some layouts together so it displays correctly.   its a little bit of a hassle at first, but once done it works really fine and gives more control (and of course, if you change your plans You would have to adjust the viewports accordingly).

Best of lucks!

[Lingwisyer]

Or, for your example, you just set your GF walls to Symbolic Cut.

[Angel Berruezo]

I would only do one floor. It makes sense from an architectural perspective. You can define views with different cut levels and compose them in the layouts.

[ryejuan]

This is the most tricky part in doing floor plans, Either you set stories for each levels then you need to superimpose in your layout each floor to get the desired drawing representation or I think you can try to determine which floors relate to each other then from that point you can set your floor plan cut plane levels then you need to save it into saved views. I hope I gave you some ideas you can work with, 😁

[Lingwisyer]

The main issue I have had with stitching together different views is when someone wants a DWG export which now needs to be stritched back together...

[Mahmoud Qenawi]

Hi all,

I handle this situation as @Lingwisyer suggested, by setting some GF walls (which Bases are above the level of cutting plane, here = 1.10) to be displayed as Symbolic Cut.

- Don't forget to set those 2 structural slabs in a hidden layer while working on floor plan, you can use (Gravity to slab) to handle placing your furniture easily.

Edit: this solution is available for basic & composite walls as they can be displayed as a symbolic cut and not available for the complex profiled wall as it doesn’t have a symbolic cut display option.