About Levels

Buildings are segmented into levels (or floors) in the vertical plane. When you create a project, you determine the number of levels, their floor-to-floor height, and their floor elevation. When you add or remove levels, the project is updated with the new level information.

Plan view of identical building core levels

Level Defaults

By default, the first level is present in each new project. It has a floor elevation of zero and represents the ground floor. You can change the elevation value for the first level, which is then used as the default elevation for each new level you insert.

Copying Levels with Constructs

You can quickly and easily duplicate floors with identical plans. After creating one level and assigning the floor plan constructs to it—for example, a layout of apartments on the first floor—you can easily create new levels, which have copies of the first level’s constructs assigned to them. You can edit and rename these constructs later on the Constructs tab.

Tip: If you duplicate floor plans in this way, a construct is created for each new level. If you edit the floor plan later, for example, to add an extra door, edit each level and construct individually. If your floor plans are going to be absolutely identical, you can avoid this task. Create an element containing the floor plan, and reference it into the first construct. Then copy the constructs to the levels. Each of the copied constructs have the same reference, and you can change them quickly by changing the referenced element once.