high level walls: their treatment for production information

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i was just wondering if anybody could offer advice on how to treat higher level stair landing walls that differ from the main plan walls from a production information point of view:

the stair landings themselves obviously don't warrant their own story, however in the example (attached) the external door is recessed to door height only. it is this that we need to show on all floor plan drawings.

however in producing stair core, (and other mezzanine level), drawings, the wall plan at higher levels is back out on the main external wall line (i.e. no recess). there are many other similar instances in this particular job and not all are recessed doorways; some are overhangs, some are recesses of a different nature, however they all share the same property: the wall line changes vertically within the same story.

the issues are:
1. we need flexibility to draw and adjust landing level walls for production information without them interfering with wall intersections on the main floor plans. the landing level walls themselves also need to be able to clean up to their adjacent walls that may or may not be full-height, main floor plan walls.

2. we don't want to redraw entire plan layouts on another, dedicated "landings, etc" layer. (any duplicated information is dangerous for obvious reasons). >90% of the main walls run through full height anyway. it's only the minority that change.

3. intuitive editing. this is a large, long running job. staff are likely to change, as are the walls themselves! the people coming in need to pick up how to edit this information easily.

i guess what i'm after is advice on the most efficient way of producing and maintaining this type of information.

i hope i've sounded coherent here: it's proving more difficult to figure out than it sounds. has anybody worked with similar issues and found a good way of resolving it?

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erika

thanks for reposting!

the problem i had is not that i couldn't get rid of the landings for the main floor plan, it is how to then document these landings in 2D. also, you suggest putting the landings on a layer that just gets turned off. unfortunately, the walls on this layer will still show as intersecting with the walls that are visible anyway.

i think that i have now solved the problem by the use of group intersections and being able to save different group intersection priorities with different layer combinations. (see my posts further up in this topic).

thanks anyway!
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