5.4. Arrangement of floors in a schematic view<br>

## 5.4. Arrangement of floors in a schematic view

The only structural component on “Schematic view” sheets is the floor elevation label. This component, apart from its graphical functions, is also of importance in automatic duplication of storeys, inserting radiators above a floor, duplication of expanding groups and in automatic filling of terminal units symbols. This component is not automatically associated with the arrangement of storeys specified in the “Building structure”.

By default after launching the program, only the “Plan view” type sheet is displayed. To create a new worksheet select “Worksheets ...” in the “File” main menu, select “New”, select sheet type, change its name, if necessary, then click “OK” and “Close”.

! To be able to insert or modify floor elevations, activate the “Construction” tab.

To insert a floor elevation label into the project, select in the upper toolbar, move the mouse pointer into the drawing area and click in the selected spot. The floor arrangement is inserted. This component, when marked, has a frame with handles in the form of small squares. By dragging the frame handle you change the dimensions of the component. This way you can contract or expand the range of floors displayed.

There may be several storeys within one “Floor elevation label” type component. You can modify storey elevations both in data table and using the mouse.

! Storey elevations can be modified with the mouse only when the floor elevation component is marked.

After clicking the floor elevation component in the data table, its data are displayed:

- Basement elevation – specification of basement ceiling elevation.

- Ground floor elevation – elevation of first storey.

- Elevation difference – difference of elevations of a typical storey.

- Floor thickness – thickness of floor above for all storeys.

- Ready floor – thickness of floor for all storeys.

- False ceiling – thickness of false ceiling for all storeys. Forms complete structure of floor in conjunction with the thickness of floor and floor above.

- Lowest storey number – number of first storey described by selected component. Important when terminal unit symbols are filled in automatically.

- Storeys ... – after opening the window associated with this field, you can modify separately the elevation of each storey, thickness of floor, floor above and false ceiling and position of label of each storey.

- Show elevations – specifies whether the label is to be displayed for the floor proper or for the complete floor.

- dH in isometric drawing – difference of elevations between co-ordinate system of the selected component and the absolute co-ordinate system.

- Font – style, size and colour of font used in storey elevation labels.

- Line type – style, colour and thickness of the line used to draw the floors.

! After modifying the “Basement elevation”, “Ground floor elevation”, “Elevation difference” or “Floor thickness” fields, the elevations of all storeys are changed, even if they were specified separately in the “Storeys ...” field.

“dH in isometric drawing” is useful when drawing a diagram of distribution network as an isometric drawing and risers are drawn in traditional way. Radiators must have an absolute coordinate system assigned, where identical elevations are determined.