topic Re: Cutting wall sweep in Revit Architecture Forum

Cutting wall sweep

Anonymous — Tue, 02 Jul 2019 09:12:34 GMT

Hey all!

I'm wondering how to cut the wall sweep by the surface of the roof, or even better to make the sweep follow the actual geometry of the exterior wall, to be automaticlly cut when joining the wall to the roof.

Any suggestions?

The sweep is made using 'Metric Profile' and is added in the type-editor.

Re: Cutting wall sweep

ennujozlagam — Tue, 02 Jul 2019 09:14:05 GMT

have you try pick wall and attach top/base > pick roof.

Re: Cutting wall sweep

Anonymous — Tue, 02 Jul 2019 09:16:20 GMT

Yep, the actual wall, cointaining the structure/layers gets attached and cut by the roof, but the sweep continues past it for some reason 😕

Re: Cutting wall sweep

ennujozlagam — Tue, 02 Jul 2019 09:17:57 GMT

edit wall profile?

Re: Cutting wall sweep

Anonymous — Tue, 02 Jul 2019 09:23:23 GMT

Yes, editing the wall profile won't change the appearance of the wall sweep either

Re: Cutting wall sweep

Anonymous — Tue, 02 Jul 2019 09:31:38 GMT

The only thing I've found useful is splitting the wall in to two part, and hiding the top one, since I cant delete it.

But I'm pretty sure there's a better solution out there

Re: Cutting wall sweep

ennujozlagam — Tue, 02 Jul 2019 09:35:36 GMT

i used wall:sweep or wall:reveal easy to control but you will do it manually. just saying. thanks

Re: Cutting wall sweep

bill_gilliss — Tue, 02 Jul 2019 12:45:34 GMT

Each end of a sweep can be dragged by its blue-dot end handles to where you want it (reveals, too). In this instance, I added sweeps using "Edit Structure", edited the wall profile, then dragged the ends of the sweeps to where I needed them to go.

Re: Cutting wall sweep

ToanDN — Tue, 02 Jul 2019 15:38:33 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:

Hey all!

I'm wondering how to cut the wall sweep by the surface of the roof, or even better to make the sweep follow the actual geometry of the exterior wall, to be automaticlly cut when joining the wall to the roof.

Any suggestions?

The sweep is made using 'Metric Profile' and is added in the type-editor.

Horizontal sweeps can only be cut vertically. If you add a profile multiple times in the wall type assembly editor then the sweeps can be cut follow the wall profile, or can be grip stretched manually. If you add ONE BIG profile that create ONE sweep then what you see is the expected result.

Re: Cutting wall sweep

barthbradley — Tue, 02 Jul 2019 19:46:42 GMT

If you use the Attach Top/Base Method, it should work. The sweeps will get cut back for the most part - albeit, they will be squared off. But, you can adjust their end points to overlap the roof gable end and then use Join Geometry between the roof and sweeps to cut back the ends of the sweeps to match the roof slope.

NOTE: No adjustment in sweep length necessary on this one. Just using Join Geometry was enough.

Re: Cutting wall sweep

Anonymous — Thu, 04 Jul 2019 10:00:27 GMT

Thanks!

Yep, that's the problem right there. I tried to make the sweep using only on big profile. Created a new one using a smaller profile.

Any idea if its possible to make this parametric? I'd like to create one wall type containing this sweeps - that could work in different projects - regardless of the height of the wall.

Re: Cutting wall sweep

bill_gilliss — Thu, 04 Jul 2019 11:52:55 GMT

How high is high? At present, I don't see any way to have, for instance,
individually-adjustable sweeps 2' apart on a 36' high wall than to
create 18 individual sweeps in Edit Structure > Sweeps. Not too bad, but
that approach could start to get tedious when defining a 200' high wall.
I don't know if Dynamo could automate this or not.

This would be a good suggestion for Revit Ideas -- a sweep or group of
sweeps repeat at a given interval, regardless of the height of the wall.