Changing Revit Stacked Wall Thickness

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Has there been any resolution to changing the thickness of Revit stacked walls without shifting the wall location in plan?

For as long as I have been using Revit it has always been an issue, if the lowest basic wall portion of a stacked wall changes thickness Revit defaults to a wall centerline justification; regardless of the aligning face of the stacked wall or the justification used in the model, and then distributes the thickness change to each side of the wall. This forces the wall core/finish faces to shift accordingly which then breaks numerous other model elements that are associated to the wall finish/ core boundaries (Roofs/Floors/Ceilings/Area Boundaries/etc.). Then all walls have to be manually moved back to the desired location and any broken or deleted model elements need to be recreated.

I have found one work around by creating a new basic wall with the changed thickness and swapping it for the original in the stacked wall then adding offsets for half the thickness changes to each of the basic wall locations within the stacked wall to cancel out the unavoidable shift, but this is not ideal and should not be necessary.

[barthbradley]

Instead of fighting with it, why don't you just right-click on it and press break up.  

https://help.autodesk.com/view/RVT/2023/ENU/?guid=GUID-E3E68036-490D-482A-AE22-16A9B8F45E68

[SteveKStafford · Accepted solution]

How are you changing the base wall of the stacked wall type? Assigning a new wall type to the base or changing the thickness of the wall type being used for the base in the stacked wall type?

I find that Revit respects the location line setting if my stacked wall types are defined in advance and I switch between types. The stacked wall types also have their own location line setting to govern how the walls assigned relate to each other. I typically use exterior face of core because the face of the structural element needs to stay aligned, everything else varies.

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I have made the changes both ways with no luck of keeping the wall location regardless of location line in the properties or in the wall type itself for aligning the wall segments.

But, thank you for your alternative of switching the stacked wall vs the segment. It seems that creating a new stacked wall type and switching does respect the location line without moving the wall. Just have to go back and remove all the extra wall types that are no longer needed.