Nice! That works too.
And no, you are not the only one who wants more control over the way walls
join or do not join.
Z.
"clarkitekt" wrote in message
news:40b74c13$1_2@newsprd01...
> Christopher,
>
> First, thanks for running the great forum for so long. We can only hope
that
> it's new home will be as well as the old.
>
> Thanks for the suggestions. All seem like plausible solutions. What I
> actually wound up doing was to create an in place structural column that
fit
> my required shape and joined it to the floor above. Not quite as slick as
> using a wall since I can't tell it to start at level x and extend to level
y
> but works pretty ok.
>
> Am I the only one who would like the option to set walls, floors, and
other
> elements such that they will not join, or otherwise move in ANY way?
>
>
>
> Thanks
>
> Brad
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>
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> "Christopher Zoog" wrote in message
> news:40b716cf$1_3@newsprd01...
> > You can easily create walls that do not move, but walls that do not join
> > (which is what you need), is a bit trickier.
> >
> > A few ways to tackle your problem. (in order of best solution to worst)
> >
> > 1. Let revit join the walls, then modify the joins, using the edit wall
> > join tool.
> >
> > 2. Let revit join the wall then unjoin them by selecting "do not clean"
> > from the drop down in the wall join edit tool.
> >
> > 3. Use the edit cut profile tool to manually clean up the join.
> >
> > 4. Draft over the are with the drafting tools
> >
> > 5. If all else fails, try making and inplace wall family for the
> > concrete shaft walls. Better control over joining
> >
> > hth,
> >
> > Z.
> >
> > clarkitekt wrote:
> >
> > > Ok, there must be a way of creating/locking walls that do not move. I
> have
> > > some cast-in-place structural walls that must be a given length (image
> 1) So
> > > I set the wall length to what I need, lock that dimension from the
grid
> line
> > > (image 1). At the end of this wall, there are several very specific
> > > conditions that need to occur. 1)There is a shaft wall that passes
> between
> > > the ends of the two concrete walls (to the north of the elevator) the
> stud
> > > portion of this shaft wall is represented by the grey bar and is
aligned
> to
> > > the end of the walls and locked. 2)The actual sheet rock I will add
with
> a
> > > separate wall type that is simply 2 layers of GWB but it should
> obviously
> > > attach to the north side of the studs (grey bar) and wrap over the end
> of
> > > the concrete wall.
> > >
> > > With all the constraints set, I cannot move the concrete wall, but
when
> I
> > > drag studs to meet the end of the concrete wall or drag the GWB over
the
> end
> > > of the concrete wall, Revit will stretch the concrete wall.does this
> make
> > > any sense? Is there a way to stop this from happening?
> > >
> > > Am I missing something somewhere?
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> > > Thanks
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