Learn how to effectively use view properties to create a comprehensive level two floor plan, starting with the floor deck and employing various tools to adjust dimensions and boundaries. Understand the importance of temporary dimensions and how they can be adjusted to achieve a precise floor outline.
Key Insights
- The article elaborates on the process of creating a level two floor plan, starting with the floor deck instead of the walls, and how to modify the type to three-inch concrete on metal deck.
- It emphasizes the use of temporary dimensions or drawing dimensions to adjust the dimension values to create a detailed floor outline. It also explains how to make the necessary modifications to the boundary to reflect various aspects of the plan.
- The article highlights the importance of ensuring that the floor plan is not attaching and how to inspect the plan in 3D to make any potential adjustments to the exterior walls.
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As you can see, I've jumped over to my level two floor plan, and you can see we've got an underlay of level one turned on, and this is turned on by default. It's nothing that I did here, but the settings are found within our view properties here at underlay, and you can see it's looking down to level one with a top range at level two, which doesn't really matter on this one because we are looking down to level one, and that'll be helpful for how we draw our level two slab, and so we're going to start with the floor deck instead of the walls, and I'm going to go to my floor, and I'm going to change the type to three-inch concrete on metal deck, and I'm going to start with a rectangle, and so I'm just going to start from this grid intersection, and I'm going to go ahead and draw it across to say this point here, and that is definitely not our floor plate at all, but it's pretty close, and so I'm going to go ahead and just modify it now, and I'll move this one back up a foot, and then I'll move this guy here over one foot three, and then going down to our south side of the building, we'll do the same thing, making sure we're one foot three past grid line D, and so I could draw a dimension here or use the temporary dimensions, whichever you prefer, and then we've got a pop out at this location, and so three foot three from the right of the grid line here, and so I'll just kind of draw it, and I'm really just mocking this up. I have no idea if these are correct values or not, but I'm just going to draw it in anyway because it'll give me something to work from, and so that's the pop out that we're trying to create, and so what I'll do is I'll modify my boundary here to show that, and then I can go back in, and using these temporary dimensions or drawing dimensions of my own, I can go in and I can adjust the dimension values to get us pretty close to where we want to be for that floor outline, and so south of grid line D, we want to go six foot seven, and then west of grid line one, we're going to go six foot five, and so this is a case where temporary dimension was not as convenient, and so I'll go ahead and just draw my own, so six foot five, and I'll just put this one here just so you have a reference as well, and then this one up here, which will create that notch that I've been talking about, that's going to be thirteen foot four from here, and that's going to create the edge of that pop out, and then on this side, what I'll do is I'll just move this over a foot, and this is roughly the outline of level two.
You can see it's dramatically different than what we have on the first floor, so some of the things that we're going to have to pick up here are what's going to happen at our entrance, and so we kind of know it's not going to hang out on this side, and so what I could do is I could grab this point here, and I'll just move it back an inch, so it's an inch off the face of the the wall that's going to go in that location, and then I'll come in, and I'm just going to set it to be a few feet back from this grid line in the middle, so we'll just say for now, we'll just draw it six feet off the grid line, and so I just drew the line on the grid line, the boundary line on the grid line, and so it'll go six feet here, and then this is going to come in and jog back, and so what I'll do is I'll just take it, take this line, and again, these are things that once we model it exactly with the right wall types and everything, then we can come back in, and we can make the adjustments to our our slab edge, and so this line gets trimmed back at that point, because this is going to be open for our lobby area. Okay, looks good. I'm going to go ahead and finish the sketch and see if we have anything open, and we don't.
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This is really important here. We want to make sure we're not attaching, so we're going to say don't attach, and if we look at it in 3D now, you can see we've got our floor plate, and we can easily go in and create our exterior walls now.
