How to create a wall with this shape?

[daniel.carreiro]

Hi. 

How do I create a wall with this shape? The way it's done atm is, I created a roof, attached the walls to the roof and hid it afterwards. Problem with this metodology is that this roof will show up when linked in other models.

My alternative would be to edit the profile of the walls, but it doesn't work quite well at the intersection of both walls.

Using a model in place is not an option either.

What do you recommend?

[syman2000 · Accepted solution]

For your roof, I would placed the object phase create and demolish as same phase. When you link it in and set the phase filter to Show complete, that roof won't show up. To make that roof show up, you can set phase filter to NONE to make it show.

[ToanDN · Accepted solution]

Use an in place void to cut the wall. It won't show.

[barthbradley · Accepted solution]

Draw an angled Ref. Plane in Elevation and select walls and press Attach Top/Base and select the RP as target.  

...or you can Attach Top of Walls to Roof as well.  

...Just to be clear: model the Walls using a System Family Basic Wall Type, and then use Attach Top/Base on those Walls. 

[martijn_pater · Accepted solution]

FWIW ...alternatively you could use wall by face on a mass, but above mentioned are easier/more logical here in particular using a refplane if those walls are cut on a straight line anyway.

Wall by face

Also you can control roof visibility and or even view filter <bylinkedview> in the link settings...

[mcobb · Accepted solution]

martijn.pater is following a workflow that I have found myself pursuing many times. The virtue of this approach is its flexibility. If you have the time to acquaint yourself with this approach, which I would encourage, it will allow you to see Revit more as tool to realize your own aspirations. Otherwise, you often will find yourself asking: How can I make this building into something that Revit wants to draw...and this is just not a promising approach to things. A much better question, that is just as rarely asked, is: How can I make this into something a contractor wants to build? There isn't time for both and that second question is, if I may say so, more important!

Here is a good tutorial that should handily address your concerns on the way to address more complicated wall problems.

I hope this helps.