How to Create Interior Elevations in BricsCAD BIM

Quick answer: Interior elevations show wall elevations and floor plans for individual Spaces, giving the details and dimensions of building elements, useful for interior designers or laying out power sockets and light switches. In BricsCAD, a BIM Space can define them automatically, using the Interior option of BIMSECTION.

Creating Interior Elevations from a BIM Space

1. Hover over a Space Tag and choose Define Interior Elevations from the BIM tab of the Quad, or type BIMSECTION followed by i and Enter for the interior option. You’re prompted to select BIM Spaces to generate Interior Elevations for, or choose Attach section.
2. (Skip this if you used the Quad) Select the BIM Space and press Enter; elevations for each of its walls, plus an interior floor plan, define and appear in the Structure panel (six elevations and one floor plan, for example). If interior sections already exist for a Space, running BIMSECTION again has no effect, delete the existing ones first if you want to regenerate them.
3. Show or hide the interior elevations using HIDEOBJECTS, ISOLATEOBJECTS, or UNISOLATEOBJECTS, the same commands covered on this hub’s viewing entities page, or toggle them on and off directly in the Space’s Properties panel under the BIM tab.
4. Select all the elevations and choose Generate Section from the Quad to generate them onto a sheet, confirming the same workflow covered on this hub’s generating drawings page.
5. With the section planes selected, click Open Model to open the results; the sheet saves automatically to the same folder as the model drawing. Section drawings save to a file named InteriorElevations by default, and generating sections for a second Space adds them to that same file.

Editing the Size of the Interior Elevations

Interior elevations use a default offset of 50 mm from the wall, too tight to include furniture in the section by default.

1. Type INTERIORELEVATIONOFFSET and press Enter, then type a new value, or click two points in the drawing to use the distance between them (you can also open Settings, search for “elevation,” and adjust the Interior Elevation Offset Distance value there instead).
2. Any new interior elevations you create use this chosen offset value, visible when you select them in the drawing.
3. This produces more detailed section sheets that include furniture within the offset distance (a 2100 mm offset, for example, captures furniture that a default 50 mm offset would exclude entirely).

Frequently Asked Questions

Can I regenerate interior elevations that already exist for a Space? Not by running BIMSECTION again directly, delete the existing interior elevations first, then run it again.

How do I include furniture in an interior elevation’s section? Increase the offset distance via INTERIORELEVATIONOFFSET or the Settings dialog before generating new elevations.

Where do generated interior elevation drawings get saved? A file named InteriorElevations by default, in the same folder as the model drawing; sections from additional Spaces add to that same file.

How do I show or hide interior elevations in the model without deleting them? Use HIDEOBJECTS, ISOLATEOBJECTS, or UNISOLATEOBJECTS, or toggle them directly in the Space’s Properties panel under the BIM tab.