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.
For more information about this command, please read BIMSECTION.
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:
Note: The section drawings are stored in the
file InteriorElevations by default. If
you generate sections of a second Space, the sections will be
added to the same file as the previous ones.
If you need more information on how to generate drawings, visit
the Generating Drawings page.
If you want to annotate your drawings, see Annotate > Creating linear dimensions.
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.
