three wall intersection with odd join

[kwg06516]

I have 2 corners between 3 walls, one of which is of an odd construction.  I want the outer layers of the two side walls to meet as they do when trimmed to each other but this creates a bit of angled wall inside the room on the upper left.  I want that corner to look like the left and top walls are trimmed.  The two corners are too far apart for wall join to clean the whole intersection and I can't really move any of these walls.

Here's a video of trimming the walls.

[fernanda.firman]

Thank you for visiting our forum.

Unfortunately Revit only allows certain types of join. My suggestion is that you use filled region to hide the part of the wall that you don't want to see and drafting line to draft the join as you would like to show.

I understand that this may not be the preferred workflow, so I am including the following link. It is setup for you to submit feature requests, or feedback, directly to our development team:

http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/index?siteID=123112&id=1109794

I encourage you to use the feedback link as our Development group is always interested and would like to hear your feedback directly, since you are better suited to state the business case for a feature request.

Hope that helps.

[rosskirby]

The reason you're running into wall join problems is because that particular arrangement of those particular walls won't work as you want it, unless the joins are done as shown in your image.  You'll need to modify the intersection so that it's modeled as it will be built.  You can trim out the two walls as you want them, then "Disallow join" on the end of the third wall, drag it to where you want it, then "Join" (Modify --> Join) it manually to the other walls so that it cleans up for your large scale plans.  If you need to show this in a detail, you'll need to do so with the cut profile tool.

Hope that helps.

[mcobb]

I appreciate the candor. I do find myself, with custom residential work, resorting to this filled region approach despite the social stigma associated with it among cadd users. In the final analysis, I need the drawing to simply read clearly. It always impresses me how many wall join videos I can watch and still find that there is yet another permutation that has not been formally addressed yet. In my opinion, it is one of the thorniest programming problems Revit faces. I wonder if there might be a way to introduce a graphic lexicon for "special" wall joins prior to a cadd user making the join. I'm thinking here of something a little like the Fry Reglet "shapefinder" tool they have to help customers find the right piece of metal. 

https://fryreglet.com/shape-finder/

Instead of showing a bunch of shapes, there could be a bunch of join configurations starting perhaps with 2 wall, 3 wall, 4 wall and perhaps 5 wall joins. I know this would be an involved interface but again, it would only be used for "special" wall joins.  Just a thought for a problem that has really persisted for more than a decade. It would be great to finally solve this.