Blatter-DuBois

Thanks for all the suggestions. You guys are a really great group! Yes, it would be ideal to keep the model live and have all changes viewable throughout the model/plan. The orthographic view kind-of works, but there seems to be no way of showing the electrical connections. Which defeats the point of creating a RCP... at least the way I need to. I think both copying the plan or adding pony walls may solve the problem.. but but with their own set of issues. Obviously copying the plan requires twice the work. Going back and forth between two plans. But could work, if that is part of the work flow you are use to, like one would be if using AutoCad. Maybe pony walls would work... if I can assign them to their own layer that can be disabled in 3d views as well as other plan views. I assume that would be an easy fix. But I'm sure I would have be aware of some other details like materials lists and other dependents. Anyway, Thank you.

That is what I was afraid of... I figured out that I could turn off the "doors" layer and turn on the "door headers" layer. Which kind-of solves the problem. But you cant do that with the windows layer. So Im left using the CAD tools to detail in the openings. That's not a huge deal if the project is limited to a few floors, but if anything moves or revisions are made, I would have to go back and remove the previous Cad details and add new details. I had thought about "creating a orthographic top view" option as you suggested. But I agree that its not very useful and would require too much effort. ​I'm trying to create a Reflected Ceiling Plan. The office standard I'm using cuts the the floor plan for RCP's at 7 feet, missing all openings. So, I think i need to really focus on how the layers can be manipulated to achieve this masking effect. Maybe if I poche' the doors and windows white or some variant of that idea.

Is there a way to change the cut plane of the floor plan? C.A. seems to default to around 4 feet, but can I change it? I would like to create a cut plane at 7 feet, avoiding all widow and door openings. That way I can avoid drawing in the openings... and saving a lot of time. I'm a new user to CA and I'm use to Revit; where I can copy the floor plan with or without dependent details and if needed, change to view depth and cut plane. It seems that CA is more akin to AutoCad with layers/layer-sets being the only way to vary the drawing for different disciplines. Thanks, Nicholas