revit interior walls

[rclement]

I would like to know since I'm new to revit why when I do want to create

interior walls why revit goes to the center of the wall? even though I pick finish face interior or even exterior..

if I do in autocad vanilla you can do interior walls dimensions. I would like to have same dimensions without adding the center to center dimensions of the wall thickness?

am I missing a setting?

[D_Slaa · Accepted solution]

If I am right it is dimensioning you are having troubles with? On the options bar when you are doing dimensions you can change your snap setting. Also hitting tab when hovering over a part of the wall changes where you will snap to.

[barthbradley]

Two things: 1) Monitor your Options Bar when drawing walls; there you can indicate the wall justification to use. 2) Go to Temporary Dimension Properties under Additional Settings on the Manage Tab; there can change where Temporary Dimensions measure from (e.g. Finish Faces or Core Faces). 

One strong word of advice: do your initial wall layout using a compound layered wall type with at least 1 Exterior Finish layer and 1 Interior Finish layer -- even if no finish layer is to be applied. You can swap it out later for the correct wall type. This will insure your wall justifications are maintained as you develop the model. 

[rclement]

I will try and see if thgis is what I want. ty for taking the time out

[rclement]

what I'm having problems with is if I have a autocad drawing with interior wall dimensions of say 13'-2" when it comes to revit it starts off at the center of the wall to center of wall. then I would have to substract wall thickness to get that 13'-2"

[barthbradley]

You're tracing AutoCAD walls? You shouldn't have to do a bunch of math for this. Just place your Revit walls on top of the AutoCAD linework using Pick Lines method  --- and, of course, the correct wall justification. 

[rclement]

Yes i can link a autocad dwg.but i just wanted to do from scratch and was wondering why i couldnt get interior wall dimensions.

[cbcarch]

When placing walls and dimensioning them, under Annotate Tab>Aligned>Pick:

You can choose Wall Centerlines, Wall Faces ( which is what you want) , Center of Core or Faces of core.

Also, when placing dimensions, you can use the Tab key to select different faces of a compound element such as a wall, floor, roof, ceiling, etc.

Hope this helps.

[barthbradley]

I think I may have misunderstood you. You're talking wall length and joining behavior I believe. When you lay out your walls, choose "Disallow Join" on the Option Bar so that you can control the precise wall segments lengths. You can always Allow Join later or, just use the Join tool on the Modify Tab to eliminate the visible, overlapping edges.  

...this is what I'm suggesting:

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/revit-products/getting-started/caas/screencast/Main/Details/1...