Hi,
i hope you can help us. We have a lot of problems with dimensions on arc walls. We'r used to the 2 point orientation form ACAD and as u can see it works as well in revit. But not with walls only with lines. I did a little screencast so you can better understand what i mean.
We already discover some kind of workaround but its alot of extra work. Any hints, tips, tool or other workarounds are welcome.
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About your first example, putting a dimension to measure a straight segment between two circles, I did not see the problem in your demonstration.
About your second example, I wouldn't try to do workarounds. I would try to fix the angle that is not correct.
Hi @schlueter,
In Revit you can't dimension between two curved walls. A workaround that is much less time intensive than yours would be to draw a reference plane between the center points of the curves and dimension the intersecting points on the line ends.
For walls that are not parallel you have to use the points on the walls and not the faces to reference the dimension.
If this answers your question please mark accept as solution, thanks!

Thanks for your replyies.
"About your first example, putting a dimension to measure a straight segment between two circles, I did not see the problem in your demonstration. "
The problem is that i have to do more steps for one simpel dimension because i can't snap the intersections of the walls. It works better with detail lines because i can snap the endpoints of the line but not with walls.
My workaround in the screencast was to place a door in the wall. Than start the dimension referens at the door. Now i can snap the intersections of the wall. Then i click the door and delete it. That are 3 more steps for one rly simpel thing. For me its like you tell me a calculator can't do 2+2... you need to do 1+1+1+1. I overdo but imagin the big eyes of my colleagues if i tell them you need three more steps for just one dimension.
"About your second example, I wouldn't try to do workarounds. I would try to fix the angle that is not correct."
For the second exampel i just did some kind of simpel test composition. We build alot in "existing buildings" (sry don't know if there is an english word for it) and there you can't just fix the angel. You have to work with it. That realy is a problem but i think its a problem in every programm. I was just interessed if someone knows a god way to handel it.
"In Revit you can't dimension between two curved walls."
Thought of it. Guess i need to open a thread in the idea forum.
"A workaround that is much less time intensive than yours would be to draw a reference plane between the center points of the curves and dimension the intersecting points on the line ends."
I tried the workaround you mentioned but i can't snap the endpoints of the ref plane. Don't know why! Oo
For walls that are not parallel you have to use the points on the walls and not the faces to reference the dimension.
Already did it but i need another intersection on the wall because i can't just snap one "nearest" on the wall within the dimension operation.
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Hahahaha.
Sry i need to withdraw my thread.
I just tried the workaround of andrea again because i didn't understand why it was not working in my project. Thean i realized that i don't get the little point icon i'm used to....
but you get a message in the staturbar ....
So its possibel to put a dimension between to curved walls.
But anyway ... thanks for help. ![]()
Sorry ... can't edit my previous post.
I made a quick screencast how to measure a wall between tow curved walls.
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