Display

The Displayoptions let you customize visual options for Buildings Space Planning.

This page discusses:

Hidden Buildings

Show building outline when building is hidden
Select this check box to display the wireframe outline of your building to display when the building is hidden by a Show/Hide command.
Note: This setting impacts all mass features globally, including the active building.
Show building while structural member editing
Select this check box to display the building while editing the structural member.

Story Labeling

Select the desired option:

-2, -1, G, 1, 2
Select this option to use the European story labeling scheme (EU), which includes the ground floor.
-2, -1, 1, 2
Select this option to use the American story labeling scheme (US), which does not include the ground floor.

Colors

Buildings
All the solid portions of the building excluding catalog structural members. Building includes the mass, all walls, all slabs, and the roof.
Space Volumes
The space volume, that is, the geometry of space, elevators, and stairwells contained within the walls. To see Space Volume, from the action bar, click Show/Hide Building to hide the building and click Show/Hide Spaces to show space volumes.
Site
The site volume without any restrictions.
Site Volumes
The allowable building volume, that is, the remaining site volume after applying the required restrictions.
Site Restrictions
The individual restrictions (Setbacks, Vertical Setbacks, and Easements) that the user applies to the site to obtain site volume.
Catalog Members
The catalog structural members in a building project. Catalog structural members include catalog beams, columns, braces, catalog beam patterns, and bar joists.

Structural Grid Label Defaults

Font Size
Sets the default font size of the structural grid label text.
Font
Sets the default font of the structural grid label text.
Text Rotation
Sets the default angle by which the grid label text is rotated.
Bubble Type
Sets the default bubble type of the grid label.
Leader Length
Sets the default leader length of the grid label.
Gap
Sets the default gap between the end of the grid line and the start of the grid extension lines.
Jog Start
Sets the default length of the grid label extension lines before the jog begins.
Jog Angle
Sets the default angle of the extension line jogs.

Structural Grid Label PopUps

Popup Font Size
Sets the default font size of the pop-up grid label text.
Separator
Sets the default separator string in grid labels.