Townhome floor elevs.

[Greg Wine]

My question relates to townhomes. How can I raise units in relation to each other, step them if you will, w/o going back in and changing each floor elevation of stepped units? The units now have the same floor elevations. (What really complicates matters is each "floor" has several levels).Is there a quicker, more "universal" way to raise a whole, individual unit w/i same file?
Thanks
Greg

[David J. Potter]

Actually it is simple and easy. Just make the entrys into the various room dialogue boxes for each step-up (or step-down) per floor per building then rebuild floors. (How simple would one want it to be anyways???)

DJP

[M.A. Winterton]

David I agree with Greg we need a way to raise or lower hole buildings in relation to one another I do a lot of units, and it is time consuming to go around and change each room floor level to adjust between levels of one another. We have complicated roof here that require a lot of manual work so you can't just rebuild roofs and let the Auto roof generator do it. You have to raise or lower each roof section indivually to, as you can't do it with a group select To make it more complicated we also show houses either side of alotments for street elevations and shadows, so even more buildings to change. A extension of the teraine building pad height would be great if it could be extended to indivigual buildings

[Glenn Woodward]

Maurice,

I could imagine that it would be hard to raise a "hole" building as opposed to a "whole" building.

Do you know that it IS possible to raise or lower multiple selected roof planes in one go?
When you select multiple roof planes, you get the Edit CAD item dbx and not the Roof Plane Edit dbx that you get when you select a single roof plane.

BUT, the Edit CAD Item dbx has an entry for Raise/Lower (when you select multiple roof planes) which enables the raising or lowering of the multiple roof planes in one go.

I also agree that it would be a great feature to be able to "group" or "zone" collections of rooms and apply settings to that group or zone.

[Larry Kumpost]

Originally posted by srcdesigns
Hi Greg,
I'm just north of you in Fort Collins.
As to the elevations, the answer to "is there a simple way..." is no. You can do it but it means adjusting the entire model. there is no way to simply raise the model in relation to another model that I know of. This could posibly be handled in the layout or another program by combining and editing dxf exports of your model. I can't see your model so I can't offer much in the way of suggestions.

Greg:

Max is correct. You can export a 3D version of your plan to Acad (probably any 3D othercad), set up the unit as a block or x-ref it to another plan, copy it as many times as you need and set the elevation of each unit individually. If you get your topo as an electronic file from a surveyor you just need to check the scale they have set for their dwg file. Most of the time they have the units set in feet so, most of the time, you scale your import to their dwg at 1/12.

I agree this not easy to do in Chief, especially if you have 40-60 units to set. If you have Acad and need some help feel free to contact me direct. I'm just....more like "way" south and west of you and Max in beautiful downtown Ridgway.

lark@ocinet.net

[Rick J. Lee]

Hey

One way is to draw one building's shell, multiple copy it for as many buildings as needed. Set all the differering plate & floor heights. Then add all the interior walls for each floor and on each building. This way has more work, but less headaches.

I say have Chief make a dialog building box matrix, similiar to the add floor dialog box. Chief could name Buildings, Building 1, Building 2 and so on... and set floors, plate heights for 1st 2nd... floors all in diagramatic form??? Is that what you want? This should be able to work with Townhomes & Buildings separated by several feet.

My 2 cents worth,
Rick

[M.A. Winterton]

Whoops forgot about that one Glenn, Rick I have alot of townhouse predrawn so i copy from one plan to another with edit all floors so the internals are already drawn, but what you suggest is what I do for the nighbours houses for street elevations no internals needed

[Rick J. Lee]

One thing I have done in the past is pull most of the internal walls away from the shell of the building. It will then act as one whole floor. Set the floor & ceiling heights. Push the walls back to their original locations, then re-lable the rooms.

Work arounds
very tidious,
Rick

[Glenn Woodward]

Rick,

An easyier way to do this would be to multiple select all the internal walls and change them to "No Room Def".

[Rick J. Lee]

Thanks Glenn,

I'll try that from now on!

Thanks,
Rick

[Greg Wine]

Thanks for all your help! This was one of those 'work-arounds' where it was a combination of tips that got it done.
Greg