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There are two approaches for this. If both stories are the same height, you could draw both diagrams at proper z height (working in 3d view so you can see them both. Then run create spaces from diagram once for a one story building and you will get two stories.

A cleaner and certainly more flexible approach is just to run spaces from diagram multiple times.

  1. Draw first floor diagram
  2. Run spaces from digram for desired number of stories (maybe hotel with two story podium with 20' ceilings.
  3. Draw tower diagram starting on top of podium.
  4. Run spaces from diagram again for the tower. You can use a different number of stories and floor to floor height and of course a unique digram than you used for the initial use of spaces from digram.

There are two approaches for this. If both stories are the same height, you could draw both diagrams at proper z height (working in 3d view so you can see them both. Then run create spaces from diagram once for a one story building and you will get two stories.

A cleaner and certainly more flexible approach is just to run spaces from diagram multiple times.

  1. Draw first floor diagram
  2. Run spaces from digram for desired number of stories (maybe hotel with two story podium with 20' ceilings.ceilings).
  3. Draw tower diagram starting on top of podium.
  4. Run spaces from diagram again for the tower. You can use a different number of stories and floor to floor height and of course a unique digram than you used for the initial use of spaces from digram.