Is "Folded"-Walls possible in Revit?

[pearlofsadness]

Hi Revit-Users,

As my Revit journey progresses, I am trying to branch out of the ordinary straight walls and test out the possibilities of a "Folded" Wall.

May I know if there is a way to model the wall as attached below? Where the top half of the wall slants outwards on the bottom, whilst the bottom half of the wall slants inwards on its bottom.

[martijn_pater]

Model it as mass and create those as wall by face.

[pearlofsadness]

Thank u!!

But may I know how will I go about modelling it via Mass please...?

[martijn_pater · Accepted solution]

Go to Massing tab, create in place mass.
I think you best draw a named reference plane in plan, draw this profile in section or elevation and Create Form, finish mass. Then add the walls by face.

Create form from elevation/sectionAdd walls by face

Another option is to model in-place geometry in wall category, but then you can't work with layered wall (unless you model the layers and apply materials in model editor).

[pearlofsadness]

I think it makes more sense for me to use the Model-In-Place Massing method 🙂

And it worked well!!! Here's my results 🙂

[pearlofsadness]

Incase I forget,

What is the difference (mainly the negativity) of using Model-In-Place (Wall Category) as compared to In-Place-Mass? I mean for me it seems like In-Place-Mass is always the go-to as I can easily apply wall / floor etc to it easily...

[martijn_pater]

Using walls applied to faces respond to changes to wall type / wall layers, you can also switch walls to different wall type easily. If you model it in-place it is more or less fixed.

[ToanDN]

Using a mass and create a wall by face is a better approach than modeling it in place:
- you can modify the mass form and update the wall with one click
- you can choose different compound wall types

[pearlofsadness]

I am actually abit confused now... Which do u mean by the way? As under Massing and Site there's 2 types. In-Place Massing and Place Massing...

There's also another which is under Architecture Tab which is called Place Component > In-Place Mass > Category...

[ToanDN]

1. In-place Mass: you can model any shapes you want
2. Place mass: load pre-built mass families of basic shapes: box, pyramid, cylinder, etc...