Arch Floor
|
Menu location |
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Arch → Level |
Workbenches |
Arch |
Default shortcut |
L V |
Introduced in version |
- |
See also |
Arch Building, Arch BuildingPart, Arch Site |
Description
The Arch Floor is a special type of FreeCAD group object that has a couple of additional properties particularly suited for building floors. Particularly, they have a height property, that its children objects (walls and structures) can use to set their own height automatically. They are mostly used to organize your model.
As of version 0.18 and above the Arch Floor is derived entirely from the Arch BuildingPart object, which is a general container to organize a building model not limited to floors or storeys. Older Floor objects can be converted to the new type by right clicking on them and choosing Convert to BuildingPart
.
Usage
- Optionally, select one or more objects to be included in your new floor.
- Invoke the Arch Floor command several ways:
- Pressing the
Arch Floor button on the toolbar.
- Using the L then V keyboard keys.
- Using the Arch → Floor entry from the top menu.
- Pressing the
Options
- After creating a floor, you can add more objects to it by drag and dropping them in the Tree View or by using the
Arch Add tool.
- You can remove objects from a floor by drag and dropping them out of it the Tree View or by using the
Arch Remove tool.
Properties
An Arch Floor object shares all properties from an Arch BuildingPart, with the DataIfc Type set to "Building Storey"
.
Scripting
See also: Arch API and FreeCAD Scripting Basics.
The Floor tool can be used in macros and from the Python console by using the following function:
Floor = makeFloor(objectslist=None, baseobj=None, name="Floor")
- Creates a
Floor
object fromobjectslist
, which is a list of objects.
Example:
import FreeCAD, Draft, Arch
p1 = FreeCAD.Vector(0, 0, 0)
p2 = FreeCAD.Vector(2000, 0, 0)
baseline = Draft.makeLine(p1, p2)
baseline2 = Draft.makeLine(p1, -1*p2)
Wall1 = Arch.makeWall(baseline, length=None, width=150, height=2000)
Wall2 = Arch.makeWall(baseline2, length=None, width=150, height=1800)
FreeCAD.ActiveDocument.recompute()
Floor = Arch.makeFloor([Wall1, Wall2])
Building = Arch.makeBuilding([Floor])
Site = Arch.makeSite(Building)
FreeCAD.ActiveDocument.recompute()
- Elements: Wall, Structure, Curtain Wall, Window, Roof, Space, Stairs, Equipment, Frame, Fence, Truss, Profile, Pipe, Pipe Connector
- Reinforcements: Straight Rebar, U-Shape Rebar, L-Shape Rebar, Stirrup, Bent-Shape Rebar, Helical Rebar, Column Reinforcement, Beam Reinforcement, Slab Reinforcement, Footing Reinforcement, Custom Rebar
- Panels: Panel, Panel Cut, Panel Sheet, Nest
- Materials: Material, Multi-Material
- Organization: Building Part, Project, Site, Building, Level, External reference, Section Plane, Schedule
- Axes: Axis, Axes system, Grid
- Modification: Cut with plane, Cut with line, Add component, Remove component, Survey
- Utilities: Component, Clone component, Split Mesh, Mesh to Shape, Select non-manifold meshes, Remove Shape from Arch, Close Holes, Merge Walls, Check, Toggle IFC Brep flag, 3 Views from mesh, Create IFC spreadsheet, Toggle Subcomponents
- Additional: Preferences, Import Export Preferences (IFC, DAE, OBJ, JSON, 3DS, SHP), IfcOpenShell, IfcPlusPlus, Arch API

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