Interior elevations
Command
BIMSECTION
About
Interior elevations show wall elevations and floor plans for individual Spaces. They
provide the details and dimensions of building elements. This can be particularly
useful for interior designers or to make a layout of power sockets and light
switches. In BricsCAD they can be automatically defined by a BIM Space.
Create interior elevations from a BIM space
- Hover the cursor over a Space Tag and select Define Interior
Elevations from the BIM Tab in the
Quad Or type BIMSECTION in the Command line, followed by i and Enter
to choose the interior option.You are prompted: Select BIM Spaces to generate Interior Elevations or [Attach section]:
- (Skip if you used the Quad) Select the BIM Space for which you want to
create the interior elevations and hit Enter. The interior elevations for each wall and the interior floor plan are now defined. They can be found in the Structure Browser.Six interior elevations and one interior floor plan have been created and will appear in the structure browser.Note: If there already are interior sections for a Space, running BIMSECTION again on that Space will have no effect. To regenerate the interior elevations, you must delete the existing interior elevations in that Space and run BIMSECTION again.
- To show or hide the interior elevations you can use the HIDE/ISOLATE/UNISOLATE objects commands or you can go to the properties of the Space and switch the interior elevations on and off in the BIM tab.
- Select all elevations, as illustrated above and select Generate Section from the Quad to generate the interior elevations on a sheet.
- To open the section results click Open Modelwhilst the section
planes are selected.The sheet is automatically saved in the same folder as the model drawing. The following elevations have been produced and can be edited for the selected Space in the model above:
Edit the size of the interior elevations
It's possible to edit the size of these sections to include furniture for example. If you create interior elevations for a BIM Space, the offset value is 50mm by default. To include furniture in a section, you have to change this value.
- To change this setting type INTERIORELEVATIONOFFSET in the Command line and
hit Enter. Type a new value and press Enter or click on two points in
your drawing and the distance between them will be selected. You can also change the offset by typing Settings in the Command line, search for elevation and adapt the Interior Elevation Offset Distance value.
- If you make new Interior Elevations, the offset distance will be the chosen value. This is also visible when you select the interior elevations in your drawing:
- This results in more detailed section sheets with the furniture included.