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the best way to show floor slabs on an upper storey

Anonymous
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I'm struggling to find the best workflow for modelling floor slabs on an upper storey. If I show it on the upper storey then i accidentally always seem to select the floor slab when working on that storey.
I get around this on the ground floor storey by putting the floor slab on the foundation plan.

As always thanks in advance for your help!
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Vitruvius
Booster
Lennox wrote:
Cameron

I like the idea of locking the object rather than the layer. How do I do this?
I dont see anything in the slab selection settings
Hi Lennox,
There are two ways:

1. Under the EDIT pulldown menu as shown. Not very quick but it's there!
2. Add it to one of your palettes - I've got mine in the ARRANGE ELEMENTS palette. It seems to be a logical place for it.

Cheers
Lock from Menu.jpg
Cameron Hestler, Architect
Archicad 27 / Mac Studio M1 Max - 32 GB / LG24" Monitors / 14.5 Sonoma
Vitruvius
Booster
Here's an example of the ARRANGE ELEMENTS palette. The locking functions are the last 3 buttons in the bottom row.

Using it on the palette is really efficient. I keep a lot of structural elements locked and subsequently lock things like windows etc.

Cheers
Lock from Palette.jpg
Cameron Hestler, Architect
Archicad 27 / Mac Studio M1 Max - 32 GB / LG24" Monitors / 14.5 Sonoma