ADU floor 30" below main house floor - can I force elevation markers for it to start at zero?

[wkshank]

I have two structures on my file: the main house (whose main subfloor is at zero) and the separate garage/ADU, whose slab I set at 24" below main house's subfloor, because of the fall of the lot (so both buildings could be modeled with realistic heights on the parcel.  I am now generating plans for just the ADU and would like the elevation markers to have ZERO as the slab top level (so builder can just focus on this building).  Is there a way to hack the elevation markers to subtract 24" from markings??

[wkshank]

I did just discover that I could change my elevation markers to "framing reference" (under "marker inherits properties from" tab / define).  This removed the absolute level markings but still shows the dimension from marker to marker.  So now it just has the markers with the label (such as "top of slab") but no value underneath the words, which accomplishes what I needed, I guess.  

[tundra_dweller]

Currently there's not a very elegant way to handle this as far as I know. Something like what's suggested in this thread would be a good improvement IMO. 

 

[JiAngelo]

Yes.  Create a text macro called "heightadu" for example.  Under Value define "d=(height + 24)" (no quotes) and set Context to "Owner Object"

 

Next, open your marker dbx and under Text select user macro heightadu or simply type %heightadu% in the text line.  These markers should now add 24" to every height reported  (i.e. report 0 for -24 and if you copy the marker +10' on the z-axis it will say 120 for 96, etc....

 

This works for elevation views, not plan views.

 

And if you prefer the height to be reported in decimal feet, in the macro add a second line  "z=d.to_ft.round(2)"

 

Hope this helps..

Edited Friday at 12:50 PM by JiAngelo
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