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Pele

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I am creating a group of 3 x 2 storey apartments all alongside each other, 2 are attached & one stand alone.

They are on slightly sloping ground, so no 2 is about 300mm (approx 1'-0") higher than no 1 & no 3 is another 300mm (1'-0") again. The floor levels need to be addressed as I layout each apt, but also the walls, doors, windows etc etc. This is a pain in the you know where. I am sure I am going about this the wrong way as Revit has to have an easy way around this. Or at least there must be an easier way for users like me to use Revit in this situation??

All help will be much appreciated. 

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I should add that I want to show the three apartments in one floor plan for each floor/level, i.e. ground floor plan will show all three apt ground floors & the north elevation will show all three apts in the one view.

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Your solution:

1. Do have seperate levels for each unit and give them unique names. 
2. Limit the extends of these levels to the units in elevation views.
3. Do create seperate "working" floor plans for each level of each unit where you can easily work on model components with them associating to the correct level.
4. Create one sheeted floor plan view for your sheet.
5. Use plan regions in the sheeted view to control view ranges for each area.
6. Only annotate from the sheeted view - don't model here because the workplane may not be correct.

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Thanks Hub 

I think I have it.

1. I already have my Ground Floor Plan in my Prj Browser, then I duplicated the view & called it Ground Floor Unit 3 which I then cropped to that unit floor plan so I have to stay working in that view when I'm in it, can't stray!!
2. Did that with the other 2 Units & then with the level 1 units. Level 2 will be the roof(s) so may need to do it at that level aswell becaus they will have different roofs.
3. Q: I have a level 0 which is the level at which is (I think) the level at which the surveyors plan is at, which by the way is now a very nice 3d site topography. But my level at Ground floor plan seems to want to put the base of the wall at that level (0) that i cannot seem to control except by specifying the wall base constraint in the wall properties panel each time I draw a wall.  

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You may have donee this incorrectly.

Floor plans should be associated with levels.  Creating them from View/Plan is the best way to do this.  If your two units have different levels for the ground floor then they need to be different rather than copied.  You can call them both "GROND FLOOR PLAN" even if their physical elevation is different.  The levels might be Ground Floor Unit 1, Ground Floor Unit 2 ....etc

If you have a combined ground floor plan, then you pick one unit's level or the other's then add plan regions where necessary.

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