Select File/New/Project Here's where the problem begins. I have not touched the properties at all, yet somehow they are changed. I draw in the floor, it goes in fine. When I try to draw anything else they draw in one or more levels down. I adjust the planes, which I shouldn't need to do. I delete those that went in on the wrong plane. Then I draw again and WHAM! its as though I made no adjustment. Walls and stairs and anything else draws in a level below. Frustrated I just keep drawing that way, then going to the elevation view to pull them up to their correct floors. What can be causing this. Every time I change to a different level it resets to this wrong parameter in the properties. I hate to say it, but I'm starting to prefer Chief Architect...
Are you working in 3D views?
...CHIEF ARCHITECT??? C'mon! Serious?!
...What do you mean you "adjust the planes". Work Planes? Are you working with a custom template (rte)? The default templates don't have Work Planes in them. Levels, yes.
HA HA...there was a guy that used to visit my local watering hole frequently and boast how great Chief Architect was over Autocad Architecture and ArchiCAD. When I mentioned Revit he actually stopped and was "what's that?" Told him what it was and the fact that it was a multi-user platform (which at the time Archicad wasn't) He changed the subject.
Structural Wall types (foundation) draw "down" by default, so do Columns. Their logic is that we design habitable space like the first/ground floor initially and then we can trace the perimeter of the first floor walls to draw the foundation walls. In that scenario we draw the first floor architectural walls that grow up to the next level and then trace them to draw the foundation walls down.
Confuses a lot of people unfortunately.
Plan and ceiling oriented views are assigned to the workplane of the their associated level initially. It is possible to assign that to something else but if you didn't do it then it hasn't happened, unless someone else has been working on your file too.
Also, when you create a new wall type based on one like one assigned to Function foundation it will inherit that too. If you start to sketch a wall and you see Depth, not Height, on the Options bar then that wall has a bias toward being drawn "down". If you change an architectural wall type to use Depth then a warning message will appear to let you know that it's constraints have been changed in attempt to make sure the wall's sketch will work.
Once you've toggle the setting from one or the other you'll have to remember to choose the correct one for subsequent walls.
Steve Stafford
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