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Two story walls? Full height or separate?

Anonymous
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General question.
If I have a tilt panel wall that is one wall that goes to roof level of a 2 level building. Should I make the wall full height as it should be or do I do a level 1 wall and a level 2 wall of the same properties/attributes?

Reason I ask is if I place a door on the second floor the door is placed on the ground floor if the wall is full height. Then I guess I have to give the floor to floor height on the door settings?
If I make them separate walls for level 1 and 2 it will put it on level 2 without altering the sill height

Which is the correct way to do it?

Thanks

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Barry Kelly
Moderator
You might want to have a look at the window/door anchor.
You can lock the head or sill into the stories as well as the wall base.
Barry.
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I suggest you should model 'as built'.
If you want to cut a section showing the wall and floor finishes, it's impossible with one double height wall.
arch. ernest atanasiu
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Karl Ottenstein
Moderator
uisanata wrote:
I suggest you should model 'as built'.
Agree.
If you want to cut a section showing the wall and floor finishes, it's impossible with one double height wall.
Not sure what you're saying here. (I've never had an issue with sections looking different for stacked vs single walls.)

Karl
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...then I must be doing something wrong.

in large scale drawings, the priorities of the composites' skins always give me headaches.

I should have said 'more difficult' instead o impossible.
arch. ernest atanasiu
AC 10-26 INT/GER/FR on Win 10/ Win 11
As a general rule, model as it will be built.

That said, multiple-story elements are an exception, not a rule. Controlling the floor plan view of multiple-story elements can be difficult, and modeling from floor-to-floor is typically the easiest work-around.
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