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 2021-01-19 10:35:08 -0500

parvanehniaei's avatar

updated 2021-01-20 10:07:33 -0500

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?

edit retag flag offensive close merge delete

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  ( 2021-01-19 13:03:31 -0500 )edit

1 Answer

Sort by ยป oldest newest most voted
1

answered 2021-01-19 12:58:03 -0500

updated 2021-01-19 12:58:59 -0500

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.
edit flag offensive delete link more

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  ( 2021-01-20 09:45:20 -0500 )edit

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  ( 2021-01-20 10:29:07 -0500 )edit

Your Answer

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

Add Answer

Careers

Question Tools

Stats

Asked: 2021-01-19 10:35:08 -0500

Seen: 195 times

Last updated: Jan 20 '21