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What is the general opinion on exterior walls, do people like to stack them, floor be floor or run them full height?
I assume it can work either way, so what would be the plusses or minuses of the 2 approaches in Revit?
I've been going full-height on our first few projects, but sometimes that seems hard to keep track of when the exterior walls is complex, it gets hard to keep track of them and there are a lot of weird profile edits that need to be made. And stacking has its own set of things I dont like.
I run all walls full height if the material is the same. If you are working with different wall materials then you can either stack them or embed one wall in another. Additionally there is also a stacked wall feature in Revit where 2 or more walls of differing thicknesses and heights are stacked on top of each other.
Full height walls tend to help keep the file size down. When modeling repetitive floor plates in a multi storey apartment for example I model external wall full height and only use groups for repetitive internal layouts and include internal walls and doors plumbing fixtures etc only. This allows more flexibility if the external farbic of the building changes with finishes, window configurations etc but the internal layout remains the same.
I also tend to look at it from a construction point of view. For example a lift core wall will generally be constructed full height. If an external wall runs past slab edges floor framing etc then I will model it full height.
If there are parts of the external all with different materials, applied finishes ie aluminium cladding then I will model that as a separate wall. I have better control that way on the extent and wrap around detailing, grid patterns. joint locations etc.
My preference is stacked walls. I just find it easiest to keep all levels of walls on the same location and to really make sure that the walls are being modeled the way I want them to be.
I do think this a matter of user preference, it's the sort of thing that everyone can come up with an arguement as to why their preferred method is best.
This is why it's nice to be the one in charge of setting standards.
