Hiding or Supressing floors

[marknohr]

I'm remodeling an existing home. I drew up the existing layout and then created floors to represent where the new walls would go. I don;t want to regularly see the original floors and do not want them to be a part of framing ...

 

So how do I suppress these floors?

[javatom]

Save your "as built" as a separate plan.  Do the remodel plan as a new plan file.

[Joe_Carrick]

There's a couple of ways to do this:

1. Use a separate Plan File for Existing vs New
2. Use Layers and separate Layer Sets to show Existing, Demo & Remodel.

There are some other ways such as using a CAD Detail From View to document the existing, but I prefer one of the above, depending on the project.

[glennw]

That is an interesting concept for doing asbuilts and renos.

Try select the walls and making them Invisible, No Room Definition and No Locate.

 

I suspect that this method will bring up further complications though, and make it inpractical.

[DavidJPotter]

15 hours ago, glennw said:

I suspect that this method will bring up further complications though, and make it inpractical.

I agree with Glenn on this. As afore suggested use two plan files (as built and remodel). Demo walls can be shown as a 2D CAD export from the as built plan placed on a custom layer named "Demo Walls". 2D CAD will not interfere with your 3D model which is predicated on using 3D walls.

 

DJP

[marknohr]

Ok Thanks for all your responses.

 

All of this sounds a bit cumbersome but it is what it is.  I hope Chief will eventually support a feature/layer/floor suppression feature.

[Joe_Carrick]

3 hours ago, marknohr said:

I hope Chief will eventually support a feature/layer/floor suppression feature.

Layers can be turned off - Floors/levels can't.

If you set up Annosets and Layer Sets for the kind of work you do - it should be fairly easy. You will need Layers for Existing, Demolition and New (Walls, Doors, Windows, etc.)