Documentation of Exterior Wall Assembly with Finish Modeled Separately
Recently our firm has adopted modeling the structural portion of the wall separate from the finish on our latest project. Model wise this has been great, but we have run into an issue documenting these walls. Before we typically tagged our one wall and that would refer you to the wall legend that would then refer you to our details sheet. With the separated walls, we have tried to create separate wall tags (one for finish and one for structure) that when stacked on top of each other would call out an assembly. The structural wall would hold the letter and finish the number. So our exterior wood wall with brick is F1. In the beginning it seemed like THE solution, but we have run into complications that makes this work around obsolete. I have seen a few threads talking about the benefits of the separated modeled assembly, but not too much on documentation. For those that also use this method, what are yall's processes for documenting your separated walls?
Some ideas we had:
- Create a note block that resembled a wall tag, could be scheduled but the assembly wouldn't be tied to the wall
- Split the structural portion of the wall to have the assembly tag we want and then just tag this wall (this is what we were doing already for walls that had a finish on both sides of the wall)