[Bldg-sim] How to change building footprint in detailed mode

[Brian Fountain]

You can certainly change the building footprint in detailed edit mode.  
Start with the floor footprint.  Go to the building shell, 2D 
representation and select the "Shape view mode" on the floating toolbar 
(icon with red polygon & black dots).  Now you can edit the floor 
footprint.  Herein lies the first challenge.  Your spaces will be linked 
to the vertex numbers of the floor.  So, as you add new floor vertexes, 
the spaces will appear to "blow up" as they now reference the wrong 
vertexes.  Typically you can bring them back into line fairly easily by 
increasing the number of the reference vertex by the number of vertexes 
you added to the floor plate.  (Note, deleting vertexes is a little 
trickier as you cannot reference deleted vertexes so you will have to 
move the spaces first.)

Once the floor is correct, now you use the same procedure to edit the 
spaces.  Note that the CAD file you referenced in the wizard should 
still be available and new CAD files can be referenced using the 
"floating toolbar" "Open CAD drawing file" and "CAD file drawing 
properties" buttons.  You can select just the drawing and pan and zoom 
it so it matches your building then edit the spaces.

Just as the spaces reference the floor vertexes, the walls reference the 
space vertexes so the wall vertex references may need to be updated as 
you add or delete vertexes from each space. 

Good luck!

Brian


Sever, Franc wrote:
>
> Hello All,
>
> I have searched the previous posts but have not found an answer to my 
> problem. 
>
> The architect has changed the size of the building, and the footprint 
> of the building some what, I have already entered in my custom window 
> layout and am in deatailed input mode, so my question is:  Is there a 
> way to modify the building shells to basically take away the middle 
> portion of the building to correspond to the new layout of the 
> building or am I going to have to start over??  Any help with this 
> would be greatly appreciated.  Thank you
>
> Franc J. Sever
> Engineer, Mechanical
>
> karpinski
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> 3135 Euclid Avenue
> Cleveland, OH  44115
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