Hi everybody :
How do I add multiple floors ? Rather than adding one floor at a time, there must be a way to 'copy ' and 'paste' floors. My goal is to try creating a structure with ten floors. But, I know it would be tedious inserting each floor (and ceiling) manually. Not to mention time-consuming. Mr. Chesney's project had (I forget the exact number) numerous floors. If memory serves me correctly, it was a hotel ? I've got an idea for a new project. But, at least with this project, I don't have to be intricate......showing the details of the inside of rooms.
garystan
Hi Garystan,
All you do is select everything that you want to copy (all exterior walls, floors and ceilings - interior walls if they go right through the building), right click and select Duplicate to Locations. Obviously you have to define each of the floor levels first and then duplicate to each, one at a time. If you want to duplicate everything go to Edit / Select All (Ctrl A). if there are just one or two items you don't want to duplicate, first Select All, then hold Shift and click anything you don't want to duplicate.
Before you duplicate make sure that you select all the exterior walls (select one, right click , choose Select all Similar) and make sure you have a wall's Drop Face set to a depth equal to your floor thinkenss (eg 1'), or you will have gaps in the exterior walls at every floor.
When setting all the floor levels, make sure your calculation of the floor heights is correct, allowing for floor thicknesses.
For example:
Second Floor level is Ground Floor thinkness (1') + wall height (8') + Second Floor thickness (1') = 10'.
Third Floor is Ground Floor thinkness (1') + wall height (8') + Second Floor thickness (1') + Second Floor wall height (8') + Third Floor floor thickness (1') = 19'. etc
In other words (from Second Floor): 1+8+1=10 +8+1=19 +8+1=28 +8+1=37 etc, etc.
Obviously if you have different floor thickness and walls heights then they will change these figures and the Drop Face.
There is no limit to the number of floors that I know of (other than computer memory perhaps).
This is probably the post you are thinking about: http://forums.turbofloorplan.com/index.php/topic,758.0.html (http://forums.turbofloorplan.com/index.php/topic,758.0.html)
Allan