Tips and Tricks ~ Walls

As I surf my way around the internet and find tips and trick, articles, blog postings about walls in Revit that may be useful I'm adding links to them here as a reference resource.

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The Revit Clinic
10 Wall Tips ~Continuing the series of 10 quick tips , Click here for the tips for walls:

1. Embed a wall into curtain panel
2. Disallow Join
3. Unlock wall layers
4. Schedule a curtain wall infill as wall or curtain panel.
5. Enable multiprocessing for wall cleanups
6. Wall sweep other than horizontal or vertical
7. Break up a stacked wall
8. Access room bounding for stacked wall
9. Join geomertry on parallel walls
10. Wall Function

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Extending Walls - Wall Layers in Revit

Believe it or not, Revit will allow you to extend or contract selected wall layers above or below their base or top constraints!

This means that you can have one part of the wall assembly at a different height to the rest of the same wall. Let me demonstrate:



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Guidelines for wall thickness and materials in Revit

By Patrick Villella
Whats the Word on BIM
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So you’ve seen the endless possibilities for creating wall types that Revit allows and now you’re excited, right? In fact, Revit ships with many preloaded wall types for all sorts of walls – stud, metal stud, gyp, brick, block, and any combination of these materials. But now you have questions.



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Defining Wall Layers in Revit
Wall Structure/ Wall Assembly

by GMcDowellJr

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Brian Reneham ~ Revit Fix
Openings in Walls. - Revit 2010

It’s quite surprising the amount of different ways you can put an opening in a wall, and they all have slightly different properties in regard to how they behave and how surrounding elements behave. ~ Nice Tutorial



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David Light ~ Revit
My staggered wall is not cleaning up!!!!
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Refer to movie example for clarification.


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