Graphic Overrides - Option for Offset from current floor

[Ian_Dorn]

The problem to address: Sometimes when preparing a drawing, we see floors that are much more than one floor below the current story.  We can obviously see the projected elements below.  However, a floor that is 5 stories below will have the same line weights as a story which is just below that current story.  I'd very much like to be able to have the hatches for grass, pavement, etc.  gradually faded with each floor above it that the current story is.

The request: What would be useful would be an option for offset from current story.  This would allow a series of rules that could create a range of line weights to work on floors below the current story.

[danielk]

I agree, I keep having the seem problem.

It would be great to have an option for a Z offset from current story (e.g. element position < current story - 5.00 m)

It would also be nice to have a criteria for home story relation. Right now you can set up criteria based on home story by defining the specific story (e.g. Home Story = 0. Ground Floor), but if I could just define the filter in relative terms, that would be great (like: Home Story = Above current story, or Home Story < Current story - 2).

This would be useful for many things:

- setting up fading by setting a different override for each floor above/below

- controlling how slabs/roofs/etc. look on stories above/below their home story

- setting up QA Graphic Override combinations to find straggler elements that show up on stories they shouldn't (or are assigned to the wrong home story)