Create a 3D Symbol of a whole house plan

[Patriciax1 1]

Is there a way to create a 3D symbol of the building. I was wondering if you could fill me in on how to do this. I need to put 2 different house plans on a large lot. There are 26 houses in total on this site.

[solver 1581]

Just like creating any symbol.

[Joe_Carrick 2326]

Just make sure the building you use for the symbol is limited to just it's exterior components.  Eliminate all interior walls, doors, cabinets, etc.

[lbuttery 191]

Joe:

 

please refresh my memory

is eliminating the interior stuff to reduce size of the symbol

 

or is there another reason ?

 

is it  "mandatory" or just a good idea

 

its been years since I made a building into a symbol

 

Lew

[robdyck 468]

7 minutes ago, lbuttery said:

just a good idea

It helps keep the file size down.

In the image below everything you see except the road and the vehicles are 3 symbols from 3 separate plans placed adjacent to each other. This would have made for a huge file size and a very slow pan file except that there is literally nothing inside each model. 

[lbuttery 191]

Robert:

 

thanks for the clarification

 

Lew

[Rich_Winsor 197]

Nicely done Robert!

[Rpadge 37]

https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00344/modeling-a-subdivision-or-lot-with-multiple-structures.html?fbclid=IwAR32gUILvHB1iOoZN5d36xP9Tsnq_TXXoRTiQXvxrFx8aJHVnq6_Lr70ChI

 

[Patriciax1 1]

Good morning Everyone involved,

Thank you for all the support. I really needed to get this done yesterday and thanks to all your input I accomplished it. Plus , I learned a very useful tool.

 

Kindest Regards to all.