There are several items here to be aware of concerning Punch! operations.
It is noted that sometimes, after the ceiling heights have been set, the working elevations don't "take" immediately, and items drawn immediately after will be at incorrect elevations. The answer to this is to drag a furniture object from the object menus onto each floor after setting the ceiling heights. If it doesn't sit on the floor at the correct elevation, set its elevation manually using the slider. Any object dragged after this should then elevate properly immediately.
A second problem centers on interior walls. Earlier we noted there is a 1/2" assumption in Punch! that affects interior walls. To counter this, each interior wall should be lowered 1/2" from its default elevation after being drawn - this is the elevation recommended in the Interior Wall Elevation column of the printed report and the one left on the plan. That will lower the baseboard trim to the floor, and the top of the wall will not pierce through the ceiling to the next floor. It will pierce the floor by 1/2", but any value of floor thickness greater than 1/2" will prevent that being seen, unless the viewpoint is inside the floor; a bad place to be!
There are some differences between versions of Punch! which impact the way that HighRise works. Some of these effects can be compensated for inside the programming of HighRise; a careful user will see differences in the results when HighRise is used on the two versions. In one case, however, the user must be aware of what is happening and take steps to make things work correctly.
When Platinum was released a change was made to the automatic floors. The default for automatic floors is 1/2", but if the autofloor checkbox was turned off, the automatic floor thickness went to zero, as opposed to the way it worked before - it kept the value of the autofloor. That value affects the total length of exterior walls, even if the autofloor is not present. The option remained this way for AS18, the first PowerTool-enabled version of Punch!.
Later still, in AS3000 (and it is the same in AS4000), the use changed again. Now, when the autofloor is turned off, the value is not zeroed; it maintains the previous value. This makes walls without autofloors potentially too long. To fix this problem remember to always set the autofloor thickness to it's default value of .5" before turning it off. If it is not, then the walls will be that much taller than HighRise expect them to be. The default thickness cannot be set less than 1/2".
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