Question-and-Answer Resource for the Building Energy Modeling Community
Get started with the Help page
Ask Your Question
0

How to create a building with two different floor plans using create spaces from diagram?

asked 4 years ago

parvanehniaei's avatar

updated 4 years ago

I have a two-story building with two different floor plans. I want to draw it in open-studio SketchUp plugin using create spaces from diagram. But I do not know how to create a building with two different floor plans using create spaces from diagram?

Preview: (hide)

Comments

Please short topic title to be summary of question, and not full question text, and use existing tags.

David Goldwasser's avatar David Goldwasser  ( 4 years ago )

1 Answer

Sort by » oldest newest most voted
1

answered 4 years ago

updated 4 years ago

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.
Preview: (hide)
link

Comments

Dear David, what do you mean by the tower diagram starting on top of podium? could you please share a link with any relevant tutorial?

parvanehniaei's avatar parvanehniaei  ( 4 years ago )

All I meant by this is typical urban example where the bottom of the building (podium) has a footprint that goes to the edge of the site, but that on top of that (tower) the upper floors have a smaller footprint that is set back from the street. You can ignore these terms and just need to understand that you can have as many unique footprints for different stories as you would like to, and just run spaces from diagram multiple times (once for each unique footprint).

David Goldwasser's avatar David Goldwasser  ( 4 years ago )

Your Answer

Please start posting anonymously - your entry will be published after you log in or create a new account.

Add Answer

Training Workshops

Careers

Question Tools

Stats

Asked: 4 years ago

Seen: 326 times

Last updated: Jan 20 '21