Elevation of spaces and actually using levels.

[Anonymous]

Hi,

i'm trying to rebuild an old house for creating completely new interior design (different walls, doors, roof extension etc.). I'm using ACA2019.

I managed to set up a tool palette for the different walls and room sizes. Each level has a different heigth, the ground floor was lowered in some rooms thirty years ago so this and the basement have two different heights.

I also managed to recreate the walls of the house, so now i can use the space tools for different rooms to generate them automatically. But now i can't figure out two things:

1. How do I set the elevation of the different spaces right in my tool palette? E.g. I need one ground floor style to be elevated 0.8m and the other one to 1.5m, the upper floor to 5m etc.

There is an entry for elevation in the properties window for the tool palette, but it is greyed out and i can't use it.

2. I can't seem to figure out why i even need to set levels in the project navigator. I entered the different levels with its values, but i can't reference/assign them anywhere in the software. Intuitively it should be possible to assign space styles to different levels but that doesn't seem to be the way it works.

I'm not trying to be fancy, i just want a visual support for my ideas. The measures don't even need to be precise, i'm not trying to go into detail (with ornaments etc). I just need a simple model of the house to play around with some walls, stairs, doors and windows to get ideas on how to redesign it. If you think ACA is too complex for what i'm trying to achieve it would also be helpful if you recommended some other software, because the market is very, very confusing for a beginner and i don't want to spend days figuring out which software to use.

Thanks in advance

[Anonymous]

ACA uses the project system (Project Navigator) to manage Levels. You create levels (need not be actual floors) and when you create a Construct (model drawing) it is assigned to the appropriate level(s). Within that construct you can model at z=0 because the construct is automatically inserted into the View at the appropriate level offset. If something spans multiple levels tick all those it applies to and (typically) model it at the lowest level.  

When you create a view you specify which levels it spans, ACA builds the view with the constructs inserted at the correct level above 0.

If you don't want to use Project Navigator could just emulate this aspect by drawing each level in its own file and Xref them together in a master file with the offset appropriate

Check out "About The Tabs of the Project Navigator"

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/autocad-architecture/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2...