Name

Enter a building name for labeling

Show in Plan

Select whether to show the building roof or footprint in Plan view

Label

Select a text label, if any, for the building shell in Plan view; move the text control point to reposition the text

Height

Specifies the building height (to the eave)

Floor Count

Specifies the number of floors in the building

Floor Usage Data

Opens the Floor Usage Data dialog box, for reporting the usage of massing model floors. This is useful in worksheets, for example, when reporting the usage data of the floors using the ‘FloorUsageData’ parameter (see Worksheet Functions). The number of floors listed depends on the Floor Count (if the Floor Count is reduced later, floor usage data will be lost).

By default, each floor’s usage is “Unspecified.” To specify the floor usage data, select each floor and enter the Usage Data for that floor.

A semi-colon cannot be used in the usage data, because this is the delimiter for the FloorUsageData function.

Wall Class

Select a class to use for wall style attributes

Use Custom Roof from Profile

Select to create a custom roof. The first roof created by the object is used as the default custom roof; if the number of stories has changed, the height of the custom roof needs to be manually adjusted.

Roof Overhang

Specifies the distance the roof extends from the building

Roof Thickness

Indicates the roof thickness

Roof Class

Select a class to use for hipped roof style attributes

Pitched Roof

Select to add a roof to the building shell

Eave Style

Select an eave style from the list

Roof Slope

Specifies the roof pitch angle in degrees

Draw Floors

Select to draw floors in the building

Slab Thickness

Specifies the floor thickness

Display Shadow in Plan View

Select to display a shadow based on the roof outline in Top/Plan view. Document-wide settings from the Plan Shadows pane on the Document Preferences dialog box are applied. Click Shadow Settings to open the Document Preferences dialog box to review and edit the settings (see Plan Shadows Preferences).

Use Site Modifiers

Adds a pad and grade limits to the base of the building and allows the building to modify the site model

Use Grade Limits

Uses grade limits to define the site modifier modification area

Grade Limits Off.

Sets the offset of the grade limits from the massing model

Gross Area

Displays the gross area value for all the floors

Vertex parameters

Edits the object vertices. See Editing Vertex-Based Objects.