Learn how to integrate an elevator into your architectural designs using a manufacturer's design and adjust the parameters to suit your specific project. This article will guide you through the process of loading the elevator family and setting it up in your design, including adjusting the number of stops and ensuring the right height for each level.
Key Insights
- The article discusses the process of adding an elevator to an architectural design using a family downloaded from a manufacturer's website. This includes loading the family into the class folder and placing the elevator in the design, using a wall as the host element.
- Adjustments may be needed to ensure the elevator fits the specific project, such as reducing the number of stops. The article demonstrates how to find and adjust the relevant parameters, such as the number of stops, in the downloaded content.
- Furthermore, it's critical to ensure the height of each stop in the elevator design is correct for the project. A section cut through the building can help verify the distances between stops, and the parameters can be adjusted as needed until the design fits the project perfectly.
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Now that we have the shaft all set up, the next step here is going to be to add the elevator. This is the family that I downloaded from a manufacturer's website and included as part of the class dataset. We're going to do the same thing where we load a family and we're going to load it from our class folder.
Within here you'll see we've got the elevator family that we can download and load in. You can see we have the elevator family that we can load into our project. So I'll click Open to load that in.
Then I'll go to Architecture and Component, and this will allow me to place the elevator. It's going to look for a wall to host to.
You can see it's kind of trying to find that, and so the host element is the front wall, which is where our door is going to be, somewhere over here. So I'll just place it up against that wall.
Then this box that you see here is going to make up our hoistway. So I'll move it into the corner and we'll see how close we got. It looks like we did pretty well.
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So it seems like it fits well. The door cuts itself open, and then we'll just take a look and see how it works on the rest of our project. Here's one of the fun parts about bringing in a manufacturer's elements: they design them for every project, not just yours.
So, you can see we've got an elevator that, instead of just two stories, goes up to what looks like maybe 10 or 11 stories. We'll want to adjust some of the parameters within this to make sure it doesn't go so many stops. What you'll want to do is select the elevator.
This is the daunting part of using downloaded content; when we look through the parameters, there is a ton of stuff to filter through. So I'll look for a number that's not a dimension here.
I found this one—this looks like the number of stops, and that looks like what we're looking for here. So my number of stops is not going to be 10.
It's going to be two because we're first floor, second floor. You can see that immediately starts to fix our issue. The next thing we're going to want to look at is a section through here to make sure that we have the height correct.
So I'll just cut a section that goes through the building this way and cuts through the elevator. Then we'll take a look at it. You can see here the stops that we have set up are at 14 feet.
The distance from stop one to stop two is set to 14 feet, and the distance from stop two to stop three is set to that as well. That works out for us pretty well because now we have our elevator that will stop at level two, and you can see it stops at the roof.
We've got much better parameters set in now, but you can see the whole thing is set up to draw many, many stops, but we've got it set the way we want now. We're in good shape. I'm going to save, and then we can take a look at continuing to refine the rest of our core.
