AEC Overview of Levels in Caddie Software

Drawing a single storey house using Caddie’s AEC Build tools, one can simply draw out the plan adding furniture, text, dimensions and so on as if one is using lines to produce your drawing. However when it comes to multi-storey buildings, then it is worth considering structuring your drawings to enable easy working and display of Objects on a floor-by-floor basis.
When drawing in a conventional, 2D, way, often, each floor is drawn as an individual plan, however when using Caddie’s AEC Build tools, we have the ability to generate elevations straight from our building models. In order to make full use of this ability to auto-generate 2D content we ‘stack’ our floor plans as they would be in the finished building, i.e. one floor on top of another, then produce the elevations and sections from this ‘stacked’ model.
A level does not necessarily mean a storey. It can be any level/height/plane that you want to work on. A single storey can have multiple levels for example:
-Floor level
-Skirting level
-Sill level
-Wallplate level
The levels tools comprises three items on the main toolbar:
-The levels dropdown box which is used for changing between levels
-The configure levels icon that is used to change the parameters and add / remove levels
-The copy levels icon that is used to copy objects from one level to another, automatically changing their elevation and layer as appropriate
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