Best Workflow for Partial Double Height Space

[gregatze (Greg Collins)]

What’s the best workflow / tips & tricks for dealing with a room where a portion of it is double height? Here’s a 3D section view where I’ve added the levels. Part of the L1 lobby space extends up to L3, where the back portion stops at L2. The same situation repeats with the L3 space up through L4 to the roof.

In past Revit > gbXML workflows, I would add a room separation line in the L1 lobby space where the “open to below” line at L2 exists, so one portion is 100% a single-height space and the other portion is 100% double-height. Then I’d merge or connect these spaces together once in IESVE with a hole between them.

Is this the recommended approach with Pollination, or is there a better way?

[mostapha]

Hi @gregatze, great question.

In Pollination, you don’t need to split the rooms. Just use the Has Ceiling and Has Floor properties, and Pollination takes care of the rest. See here for a similar question and a video that I recorded in my response:

Merging Rooms on Different Floors

Inside the Model Editor is it possible to merge rooms that are on separate floors? The two rooms have been aligned to the same vertices. [image] Pressing the “Merge Rooms” command says that the two rooms were updated but does not merge.

Let me know if you have any other questions.