Floor Levels and Sheets

[cwailes]

I have a problem. I have a very large 2-story house that has a detached garage, pool house and main house. The garage and pool house are both detached. My question is this: I can not fit the pool house on the first floor plan sheet so I need to make another sheet that is a continuation of the first sheet. I have always drawn these by hand, but now I am not sure how to do this in VW2008. Do I just create a new sheet? Or is there another way that I should do this? What is the best way to achieve this?

[CipesDesign]

Make one large viewport, then duplicate it and split it in two with a giant break-line shaped cropping object (mirrored for the other side). I usually like some overlap when I do this, so that the folks in the field have some point of reference when going from one sheet to the next.

[cwailes]

That works for me. What about the design layer for the pool house? Do I just add another design layer, (say Mod-Floor-1B)?

[CipesDesign]

Sure. That will work. Or you can use the same design layer as the main floor and then use classes to solve visibility needs for various different views.

[taliho]

wouldn't it be better to create all the structures on one design layer and just crop the pertinent viewports to the different sheets?

that would allow an elevation view (in some of the orientations) where the relationship between the buildings will show -

Also, for 'key-ing' purposes - I sometimes have a viewport in a very small scale of the whole site, outlining what is on this particular sheet. (for the field folk....)

[CipesDesign]

Taliho, not for me. I use multiple design layers and the "stack layers" option. But that's not to say it can't be done that way. I would guess it would require extensive use of classes (?). Which is fine. However, IMO it's the use of both layers & classes which gives VW's it's enormous power.

And yes, the small scale "map" of the plan set is a very nice idea.