“Creating a Floor”
- In your Vectorworks file, after you have built a set of walls, you can easily create a floor.
- Begin by selecting your walls. Navigate to AEC>Create Polys from Walls...
- The Create Polys from Walls dialog box will apear. Select “Gross Area Polys” to create a polygon that extends to the outside of all walls. Select “Net Area Polys” for individual polygons that fit within each room.
- The resulting polygon(s) will appear on top of your existing walls. Right click on the polygon and select Send>Send to Back (or just type Ctrl+B on the keyboard).
- Next, select the resulting polygon or polygons and navigate to AEC>Floor...
- In the Create Floor dialog box, you have two options. The “Bottom Z” value is the z axis height of the bottom of the floor. (If your walls begin at 0, then putting 0 as the Bottom Z will place the bottom of the floor assembly at the same level as the bottom of the walls.) The thickness value is the overall thickness of the floor assembly.
- After entering these values, click “Ok” and Vectorworks will create a new floor.
- If you would like to edit your floor after it has been created, you can choose Modify>Edit Floor.
- You will enter the floor editing mode where you can make changes. You can, for example, draw a rectangle where you would like to cut a hole in the floor.
- Next, select the “Exit Floor” button to return to normal editing.
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