HousePlan

MAC,

If you use SketchUp's groups/components feature, entities from the first floor won't "stick" to the second floor geometry (or the ceiling, if so desired.)

Play with this model, to see how groups/components help out. Also, note that once a group/component is created, you can designate a layer for each "category," so that you can turn off/on each floor, ceiling, windows, etc., to make subsequent modeling easier (and faster.)

Regards,

Taff

HousePlan.skp

Hi Mac, hi folks.

If you open Taffs SKP file, you will notice that the slab between the lower and the upper level has thickness. If your model has only one surface that act as both the ceiling of the lower level and the floor of the upper level, you may expect bad results. In real life, the slab between foors can be a concrete slab or a array of wooden beams (2x10 for example) plus gyprock pannels for the ceiling below it, sometimes fixed to some wood planks plus plywood sheets for the floor over it, sometines with two sheets of plywood and either a wood floor or a carpet or ceramic tiles, etc. Of course, you dont need to get to that many details. Simply do as Taff did, use a slab with a total thickness that will correspond to the final construction, for example 2x10 plus a 1/2 inch plywood. This will result in a 10 inches thick slab. You may group it as Taff did and, if you dont want the edges showing on the outside wall, you can hide these edges.

Just ideas.

Jean (Johnny) Lemire from Richelieu, Quebec, Canada.