Foundation Elevations

[lzaras]

It's been a while.

Has anybody come up with a way to tag/annotate top of foundation elevations? How about to have them read as absolute elevations (from sea level) rather than referenced from a floor level?

I have a large project with many floor elevations, grade changes, etc. To reference foundations from the floor elevations, it may get too confusing. "Which floor elevation is ~this~ foundation referenced from?" The engineer wants me to annotate all the foundations with an absolute elevation; re: (727.33')

I do not want to place text because there are so many foundation elements that if anything changes, the next person in the project may not realize that the text is not updating with the changes to the foundation.

[Craig_L]

Under the annotate tab in the dimension block, is the option to tag elevations, you can tag superior, or inferior or both, or to the middle of an object. It is somewhat customisable in appearance but not entirely. Its quite good, and even will tag I.L. in pipes for you

[jcharpentier]

Leanne, the "Spot Elevation" tool should allow you to do this.
You have three options to reference the elevation to:
-Project Base Point
-Survey Point (use this to get "above sea level" elevation)
-Relative (use this to get relative to a particular level)
The "Elevation Origin" (what to reference) property is a Type property for the annotation.

It will, of course, update when you move elements up or down. Unfortunately, it's not part of the foundation tag itself.

Will that do what you need?

Joe


It's been a while.

Has anybody come up with a way to tag/annotate top of foundation elevations? How about to have them read as absolute elevations (from sea level) rather than referenced from a floor level?