Creating plan views for spiral carpark

[drock]

Hello,

I have an interesting problem, I have a multi-story car park with 4 levels for each level of car parking, it has 4 ramps and spirals downwards.

I am having trouble setting the view ranges as ducts are inevitably appearing from either the level above or level below.

First I setup the levels as a full sized plan using the lowest level then added a plan region to show the higher levels. However this became unsuitable as I could not "cut" out the duct elements appearing from below. I really hate using hide elements.

The other method I tried was to create all four levels and setup a cropped view for each level effectively cutting the plan into four segments. I can now display the elements I need to however it is horrible to adjust and work with.

Could anybody please give me some other suggestions as to how this could be achieved?

Kind Regards

David

[CoreyDaun]

Plan Regions are notorious for not working properly with MEP fittings. And I agree with you about "Hiding by Element" - that's at last resort.

Could you post a couple of pics of Plan Views and Sections Views to give us a more solid idea of what you're dealing with?