additional floors (1st, 2nd etc)

[Anonymous]

Hi

I am a new user to revit so i will try & explain my query the best i can;

I am using revit 2016, and i am working on a 3 storey block of flats, i created some levels that formed the floor plans grd to 2nd. I then formed the grd floor ext walls, inserted the flat layouts as a group, as the floor layouts stack up through the building this is where i go wrong, i right clicked on the grd floor plan made a duplicate without details renamed it 1st floor plan and repeated the same sequence to form the 2nd floor the problem now is that my 1st & 2nd floor ext walls relate back to my grd floor, i deleted the walls in the 1st floor and noticed i had deleted the grd, 1st and 2nd. In hienside i should have clicked into my 1st floor plan and had the grd floor underlay turned on then traced over & repeat the same excercise for the 2nd floor.

My question is how do i now make my externals walls on the 1st & 2nd floors independant of the grd?

Hopefully that makes sense to someone.

[David_W_Koch · Accepted solution]

If you duplicated your ground floor plan two times, you had three ground floor plans (no matter what you renamed them), each looking at the same part of your model.  If you opened all three views and tiled them, selecting a Wall in one of the views would have highlighted the "corresponding" Wall in all three views, because it is the same Wall.

Assuming that you did not already have floor plan views for the first and second levels, what you should have done is gone to the View ribbon tab, and, on the Create panel, selected the Plan Views tool.  On the drop-down menu that deploys, you should have choose Floor Plan.  In the New Floor Plan dialog, you should have chosen the first and second levels, and then selected OK.

Now that you have floor plans for the upper levels (or, if you already had them), you can duplicate the ground floor geometry to the upper levels.  One way to do so would be to open the ground floor plan view, select all of the geometry you want on the upper levels and, on the Modify|Multi-Select contextual ribbon tab, on the Clipboard panel, choose the Copy to Clipboard tool.  Now, on that same panel, choose the bottom half of the Paste split button tool (the part with the down arrow icon) and then choose Aligned to Selected Views from the drop-down menu.  Select your first and second floor plan views and press OK.  This should place copies of the items you copied to the clipboard to the upper two levels.  (If you have any floor-hosted items, make certain that you copy the Floor(s) from the ground floor at the same time (assuming that you do not already have floors placed on the upper levels), or the copies of the floor-hosted items will not have a host and will not be placed.

[chrisplyler · Accepted solution]

Mr. Koch has it right. Put simply...

If you duplicated your Gnd Flr and renamed to get the 1st Flr and 2nd Flr plans, you really didn't get new plans. You just got copies of the Gnd Flr plan, and renaming them doesn't change that. They're based on the Gnd Flr level.

Instead, after making the levels you want plans for, use the Floor Plan tool on the View tab to create new plans that are based on the appropriate levels.