Electrical object floor display issue

[SC_drafting]

I'm having a weird problem with my electrical objects- this building has a vaulted ceiling with a small enclosed loft, which I made with the build floor tool, and then divided with a rail-less deck edge, and made the main area open below. The issue is that when I place electrical objects on the first floor, they float in the air where the ceiling would be if the loft extended across the building. If I place them on the second floor, they display on both floors, but I can't edit them on the first floor, and don't want them displaying on the first floor. It's not ideal, but if I could cover the objects on the second floor with a CAD box, it would work for now. The problem is that the boxes I've tried to use display behind the objects, and I can't get them to move forward. I'd really appreciate some help with this one- I've linked the file below, thanks in advance!

 

https://we.tl/t-sr1QtKgqRP

[DBCooper]

This can be a problem whenever you have lights in an open below room.  If you want the lights to attach to the ceiling automatically, you need to put them on the second floor and then they will only show up on the second floor.   

 

If you did not have a vaulted ceiling, you could just place your lights on the first floor and manually raise the height so that they are on the ceiling.  Since you have a vaulted ceiling and you want them to sit flush, you probably want to put them on the second floor.  There are ways to manually make a custom rotated light fixture but I'm not sure it's worth the trouble.

 

So the problem becomes how to get them to show up on the first floor plan and not on the second floor plan.  There are a few different ways to do this. 

 

To get the lights to now show up on the second floor, you can put them on their own layer and turn them off on the second floor but this means that your second floor needs to use a different layer set than the first floor.  You can also hide them using a cad mask (a solid filled polyline).  It sounds like you tried this but had problems with the draw order and I think all you need to do is use the "draw order" tools and bring the mask to the "front" drawing group. 

 

To get the lights to show up on the first floor, you could just place the cad blocks for them on the first floor but this means you will have to move them around anytime you move a light on the second floor.  You could also use the "reference display" tools to draw the lights from the second floor on the first floor.   You would also need to put them on a their own layer and use a different layer set so you could just draw these lights.

 

This can also be a problem with other objects in open below rooms so these techniques can help you solve those as well.

 

A different way to solve this would be to use a single floor and make a "shelf" ceiling for the loft area.  I think this solution only works well when you don't want a railing around the loft area. Here is a tech article that might help:

https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-03057/creating-a-room-with-a-short-ceiling-or-plant-shelf-closet-effect.html