Multiple Floor Plans

[iany]

When creating a 2 or more storey building what is the best way to create a model as the model becomes very complex and difficult to view on a floor by floor basis?

[Anonymous]

The generally accepted method is to break your project into floors per
drawing. Then "overlay" reference each floor to another for coordination.
Finally building a complete model by referencing all floors and roof
together (at appropriate elevations) to create sections/elevations/schedule.
You may want to have a separate "model" drawing for elevations/sections etc.
depending upon how your network and workstations perform. You might even
break out furnishings etc.

There have been many posts like yours in the past...If you do a search
you'll find many opinions and advice.

Steve
"iany" wrote in message
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When creating a 2 or more storey building what is the best way to create a
model as the model becomes very complex and difficult to view on a floor by
floor basis?

[roberto_robert]

Steve,.....glad to know there is another user wanting to break the building via seperate floor xrefs. I can't imagine trying to create an entire building..(even if it only is two floors) in one xref floor plan file. I've even heard of users who change their UCS origin so that they can place walls at an elevation other than a 0'-0" z-plane. Realistically....since acad is a memory hog to begin with...that alone should indicate to separate your files into separate floor plan xrefs.

[Anonymous]

I think I'm just along for the ride...I suspect that most people are doing
the same thing in some fashion or another. I do wish ADT allowed for some
sense of floors/levels. I suggested, to Bill Glennie in another post, that
if every drawing could be "associated" to another by saying "I'm floor 1 of
4" then you could use this data in a "model" file to combine xrefs that know
what their floor and intended elevation is.

Then, maybe, stairs could be one file that references into multiple plans,
then depending upon the file's "floor status" display accordingly. This way
you would design stairs as the continuous circulation element that it is...

Probably a good place to use "Xdata" and a special Xref routine to organize
"floors" into a building model. Start command....select
files/floors....examine Xdata....arrange floors/elevations....done! (Xdata
might be, Floor level name & elevation value)

Just some musing....

Steve

Oh, I've tried the multiple UCS's do draw different levels, mostly in a
split level sort of condition....what a pain in the elbow...but as I think
I've read you say....we coordinate everything don't we?
"roberto_robert" wrote in message
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Steve,.....glad to know there is another user wanting to break the building
via seperate floor xrefs. I can't imagine trying to create an entire
building..(even if it only is two floors) in one xref floor plan file. I've
even heard of users who change their UCS origin so that they can place walls
at an elevation other than a 0'-0" z-plane. Realistically....since acad is a
memory hog to begin with...that alone should indicate to separate your files
into separate floor plan xrefs.