Foundation wall justification / scheduling

[threeonefourdesign]

Hello all - Searching for the best way to place or create a concrete foundation wall that includes exterior core justification AND scheduling into the "Structural Foundation Schedule".

From what I can tell, Revit's built-in "foundation wall" can only be center justified. And creating a new wall type, I can't get it to schedule into the structural foundation schedule. I do not want them to show up in the regular walls with everything else.

If the solution is to create a custom schedule, fine. Hoping to find a better solution. A tick box that I'm missing perhaps? Or another sequence to create the wall type?

Thanks

[Anonymous]

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@threeonefourdesign wrote:

From what I can tell, Revit's built-in "foundation wall" can only be center justified.

You can set the location line "foundation wall" to any of the 6 options Revit caries for all types of the basic wall family. These locations are: core/wall centerline, finish/core face interior/exterior. Just choose your option eather when creating the wall or change it after placing the wall, both on the properties window.

Analytical walls though, are aligned to the core centerlines and the geometry is a single surface at that core centerline, or the core center surface to be more accurate.

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@threeonefourdesign wrote:

And creating a new wall type, I can't get it to schedule into the structural foundation schedule.

If it's "structural" and "analytical" parameters are set in the wall's instance properties then the walls will show both in the "wall schedule" and "analytical wall schedule". Be aware of any phase filters and/or design options settings both in the object and the schedule view properties.

Hope it helps.

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[threeonefourdesign]

Thanks for your response.

I think I was too caught up in having the foundation wall schedule separately along with the isolated pads. Not a big deal. Was just hoping for some ideas to solve it rather than work around it that I could potentially use in the future.

The other problem with having the foundation wall as a basic wall is not being able to isolate the category while working. Maybe I just need more time in Revit to learn how to navigate the model better.

Thanks again

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

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@threeonefourdesign wrote:

Thanks for your response.

I think I was too caught up in having the foundation wall schedule separately along with the isolated pads.... Was just hoping for some ideas to solve it.

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You cannot have both "pads" and "foundation walls"  scheduled together in Revit. Not even if in a multi-category schedule. Pads and walls are system families and multi-category schedules do not show field for system families.

Ideas? Create two separate quantity schedules for walls and pads; filter them to meet the criteria you want; check if the schedules contain all the elemenst required, if not, refine filter criteria. Other way would be try it with dynamo, but I coulnd't help you with that.

The other problem with having the foundation wall as a basic wall is not being able to isolate the category while working.

Actually both share the same Category which is Walls. In Revit, basic walls and foundation walls are not object categories, but rather a Family (basic wall) and a Type (foundation wall). To isolate or hide the foundation walls from the rest of your walls apply a filter to your walls quantity schedule to isolate/hide the foundation walls from the schedule view.

Hope it helps.

[threeonefourdesign]

Yes! Thank you. Select instances from the schedules, then isolate in view. Hadn't thought of that for this application. Knew there was a simple solution to that one. Just haven't sunk my teeth into schedules yet.

And yeah, I've settled on having the foundation walls and pads on separate schedules. Again, not a big deal. Just thought there had to be a way to have them on the same.

Thank you for your help