No they are different. Shells can be made up of multiple floors of the
same floorplate. Floors are, well, floors.
I often use floor multipliers -- this will create a bottom floor (of the
shell), a typical middle floor with a floor multiplier of the number of
middle floors plus a top floor (again, of the shell). If you do not use
floor multipliers, then each floor is explicitly defined. This
typically slows the simulation without increasing accuracy.
I have only used a shell multiplier once -- when I had a campus
residence model with several identical 3-storey residence buildings
making up the campus.
Hope this is clear. My wording sounds fuzzy to be -- but it is a hot,
sunny Monday here.
No they are different. Shells can be made up of multiple floors of the
same floorplate. Floors are, well, floors.
I often use floor multipliers -- this will create a bottom floor (of the
shell), a typical middle floor with a floor multiplier of the number of
middle floors plus a top floor (again, of the shell). If you do not use
floor multipliers, then each floor is explicitly defined. This
typically slows the simulation without increasing accuracy.
I have only used a shell multiplier once -- when I had a campus
residence model with several identical 3-storey residence buildings
making up the campus.
Hope this is clear. My wording sounds fuzzy to be -- but it is a hot,
sunny Monday here.