Hi there,

I am surprised regarding your questions because the "walking inside of my house" issue is well documented in my eBook. Actually, there is a full section related with 3D navigation and the different tools, elevations, etc. (page 188)
In addition, this is described also in the user guide as well as many post at the forum.

Regarding the problem # 1 A short review of the issue and solutions => In 3D Live View you have 4 different tools:
- Walk-through tool => you will see a little man in Live view => to walk, confirm that you selected the little man and not the chopper
- Flying around tools => you will see a chopper in in Live view
- The Aerial View tool => you will see the icon showing a satellite/ earth icon to see a top aerial view
- Room View => select a room and then click on the icon showing a floor plan to see an aerial view of the room

In order to Walk-through inside the house => use this system to start => Set the screen as half floorplan / half live view (Split View) => set live view as Walk-Through (the little man)--> in the floorplan view, you will see an arrow symbol --> point the arrow with the mouse and move this arrow to position the desired Walk-Through view (in this case, inside the house)--> also if you rotate the point of the arrow, the Walk-Through point if view will rotate as well.
Of course, if you wish, you can use the mouse only => If you click the little man icon in the live view screen => using your mouse => hold the left button => go forward / backward / left right. The mouse wheel will look up and down. The right button will change the elevation of the little man.
If you wish to visualize the second floor of your house, for example, and the floor elevation is 120" --> double click on the icon of the little man--> set the elevation at, for example, 160" (40 or 50"above of the floor elevation)
If you can't see the point and arrow--> set the zoom with a very low value (2D --> set zoom --> for example--> 10%) --> see attached

Problem # 2 => I am not sure what do you mean. Why do you need to change the elevations? Do you mean the working elevation? Are you editing the floor?
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Hi there,

You wrote "I'm still not sure why you can't "walk through" (make your little man go through the door) on the 3D side like other 3D programs" => Of course you can! :-) Did you read my entire answer? => In order to Walk-through inside the house => use this system to start => Set the screen as half floorplan / half live view (Split View) => set live view as Walk-Through (the little man)--> in the floorplan view, you will see an arrow symbol --> point the arrow with the mouse and move this arrow to position the desired Walk-Through view (in this case, inside the house)--> also if you rotate the point of the arrow, the Walk-Through point if view will rotate as well.
Of course, if you wish, you can use the mouse only => If you click the little man icon in the live view screen => using your mouse => hold the left button => go forward / backward / left right. The mouse wheel will look up and down. The right button will change the elevation of the little man.
In other words, the zoom= 10% is a trick just to start, but of course, using the mouse + the little man, you can really walk, go downstairs, upstairs, etc. (page 190 of my eBook)
If you prefer, you can see the tutorial called "Navigation"

Problem # 2: probably, you are following the wrong steps, because it doesn't work in that way.
1 - Did you set the default ceiling heights and the walls' elevations?
2 - Did you notice that the object elevation is different from the project working elevation?

Open the file attached => select one of the walls of the basement => the object elevation is -96", however, if you click inside of the room, the working elevation is = 0" => this means the 0" elevation of the project.
This is well explained in the Chapter "Undersatnding the Elevations" (page 17 of my eBook)

Independently of this issue, check if your program is updated http://patches.punchsoft...scape_Premium_1700a.html


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Hi there,

I think that you are having problems with your computer, because the little man is a movement feature and it doesn't stop at the doors => it is working great for me since 2001.
Check this animation so you can see how the little man should work:
http://www.punchhelpers.com/movies_gallery.html

Same for the elevations. You didn't mention if you checked the Punch file, where the elevations work as they should, so I am sure that the problem is something on your side. It worries me that you wrote "The perimeter, all rooms and all walls are -7'" => in your version, this is not how it works.

Re: your comments about the Punch program => As you probably know, this Forum is user to user (I am and an Architect and a Punch user like you, I don't work for Punch) so if you wish to contact with the programmers, please feel free to email directly to Punch software or call them:
http://www.punchsoftware.com/

Anyway, you wrote "Punch will rethink this in future versions" => Did you realize that you are using a very old version? we are 3 versions ahead and the elevation settings are different in V18.

I'd suggest that you check with technical support so they can check the issues in your computer, installation, patches, etc. as well as check your system, limitations, etc.
http://support.encore.com/

Patricia
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