Details on Construction Height

Information about the Construction height section in 3D Floor planning and 3D - Model planning.

In the Construction height section, you determine the height at which objects are drawn by setting the storey, reference edge and, if necessary, an offset. After the construction height has been selected, the UCS (User Coordinate System) is raised to the corresponding Z height and the following commands create objects at the set height. When inserting radiators into your drawing, the installation height is determined by adding the value for the Distance to floor from the Radiator dialog to the construction height.

If radiators are drawn from LINEAR Building, the settings from the Radiator Dimension limits and dimensioning options to be applied dialog re taken into account: If a floor structure is defined in the storey table of the model and the reference level Ground clearance is set to UEFF in the Radiator Dimension limits and dimensioning options to be applied dialog, the installation height of the radiator is made up of the floor structure defined in the model plus the ground clearance defined on the LINEAR Building.

If UEUFL is set on LINEAR Building, only the specified ground clearance is used to determine the installation height.

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Construction height Linear AutoCAD

Indicate height

After starting the command, you can click on any point in your drawing to adopt its height as the current construction height. The height of the selected point in relation to the selected reference edge is then entered in the Offset from reference height field.

Storey information

Use the drop-down list to specify on which floor the subsequent objects will be drawn. The available storeys are taken from the Storey table.

Reference edge

Set the desired reference edge for the construction height using the buttons (Reference edge unfinished floor), (Reference edge suspended ceiling) and (Reference edge unfinished ceiling). The dimensions for the reference edges of the respective storey can be taken from the Storey table.

Offset to reference height

Enter a value for the offset to the current reference edge. You can also specify negative values with a preceding minus sign. If you select another reference edge after entering an offset, the entered value refers to the newly selected reference edge. If this field is empty or contains a zero, the set reference edge corresponds to the Construction height.