Level Properties
Use the Level properties to view or modify the basic properties of a level.
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Level |
The height of the construction level above the base level |
Floor |
By setting a construction level to be a Floor you are indicating that it is a major level in the building. Floor levels are used to determine items such as your inter story height and positions from which column splices are laid out. If a level is not set to be a floor then no live load reductions will be accounted for in the beams at that level, or in the columns supporting that level. There can certainly be a number of levels that are clearly floor levels, but there could be many others that are not. For example you create intermediate levels in order to define:
Where you define a level which is clearly not a floor, then you should not check the floor box. |
Reporting Level |
By default 'Floor levels' are 'reporting levels', but this can be
switched off:
This option can be unselected in order to combine results with those from the level above when viewing Embodied Carbon totals that are grouped by level. Also, if this option is unselected, the sway/drift, seismic drift and wind drift check results for all column stacks and wall panels at the specific level are excluded from the tabular review data. In addition, the height of structure considered in the Overall Wind Drift check is determined according to how this option has been set - the height used being the distance between highest level and the lowest level in the model that have Check for drift selected. Note: This option is
only displayed if the Floor option described above is
selected.
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Type |
The level type can be:
Note: Slabs are modeled above the level when
it is set to T.O.S but below the level when it is set to S.S.L
or T.O.F
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Short Name | Each construction level should be given a unique reference. Typically this might be a storey number, 1, 2 , 3 etc. |
Long Name | Each construction level can also be given a name to further assist identification. 'First Floor', or 'Mezzanine' etc. |
Name | Automatically generated from the short and long name. By default this will be used as the name in the Structure tree |
Mesh slabs in 3D analysis |
Note: The Sub Model in which the Level is contained determines the mesh parameters that are applied.
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Include in Export | Determine whether Level should be included in CXL
or IFC export.
Note: The lowest Level will always be exported. |
Show grids in plane view |
Controls whether the Grid & Construction Lines checkbox in Scene Content has any effect in plane views:
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Show grids in 3D view |
Controls whether the Grid & Construction Lines checkbox in Scene Content has any effect in 3D views:
Note: This setting does
not control the display of
Architectural Grids which have a separate checkbox in Scene Content.
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Decomposition> Keep solver model |
Controls whether you will be able to review the solver model used for load decomposition between each analysis run:
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Decomposition | |
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Keep solver model |
Controls whether you will be able to review the solver model used for load decomposition between each analysis run:
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