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[puke]

is there any way of doing this, short of building floors or walls over them?  I want to cut off access to an area from creatures beneath.  I cant designate a channel over a ramp, it seems.  and if i order the ramp removed, the dwarf goes to the bottom of it and traps himself down there.

[JAFANZ]

I don't believe you can remove it from above, but this might help (I assume it works in DF2010): http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/40d:One-way

[FleshForge]

Build floor over the ramp perhaps.

[MrLobster]

Well usually I just dig in from the side and build a wall after. But you can do it with just pure mining and no side access, if the pit isn't too small:

1. Leave a single pillar, standing out away from the edge of the pit.
1a. Oh yeah, also leave a floor (mined out underneath) connecting the edge of the pit to the pillar on the upper level.
2. Remove ramps from the pit EXCEPT one touching the single pillar (but not touching the edge of course )
3. Channel out the pillar. Unfortunately this leaves a ramp, but this ramp doesn't go anywhere.
4. Channel out the bit of floor.

Result is one pit made by digging alone, with low risk of abandoned dorfs. Of course, it leaves an unsightly ramp behind, so aesthetically it's not much better than the floor-over method.

[puke]

it cant be solved by stairs, can it?  I wasnt able to remove up-stairs from above, but i didnt try super hard either.

[JAFANZ]

An alternative method would be a controlled cave-in, but that would leave some stones on the lowest level.

[FleshForge]

While there's nothing wrong with doing things the hard way, really, you could just build a floor over the ramped tile, from above.

[Shoku]

You could do a cave in without the stones. You just need to clean any stones off of the top of your chunk to cave in and then drop it into a deep pit where it smashes the stone down there.

[JAFANZ]

You could do a cave in without the stones. You just need to clean any stones off of the top of your chunk to cave in and then drop it into a deep pit where it smashes the stone down there.

This doesn't happen, the apparent rock smashing is just them being "quantum piled", & the floors being dropped should (I believe) deconstruct into whatever it's made of, unless you drop soil or sand.