Stacked Wall Room Bounding

[IMCornish]

I have a project using a Stacked Wall but I cannot get it to be Room Bounding, whilst I have drawn walls using the individual Wall types forming the stacked wall and they all show up as room bounding the stacked wall does not list a 'room bounding' tick box in its constraints list and if I try inserting a Room then I get the message 'Room is not enclosed'!

The stacked walls I have drawn create a simple rectangle with all corners connected, any ideas anyone?

[dzanta]

i just tried it in 2018 with the default stacked wall and it works fine.  There is no Room Bounding checkbox but the Room object does get enclosed.  Can you attach your Revit file here so I can look at the wall type?

did you try this with the OOTB Stacked wall?

What version of Revit are you running?...is it up to date?

[chrisplyler]

1. Stacked Walls do not have the Room Bounding option parameter because they just inherit the setting from the basic wall types used in the stack. Make sure all basic wall types used in the stack are set to be room bounding. Or at least the one that would be at the right height to constrain the room as described in #2 below.

2. Levels have a Computation Height parameter (usually defaulted to 0'). The value here establishes the height at which Room elements find their perimeters and their areas. Make sure that your walls (stacked or basic doesn't matter) don't have a Base Constraint or Base Offset value that results in their not enclosing that Computation Height. For example, if the Level's Computation Height is set to 6", but the Base Offset of your wall is set to be 8" above the Level, then that wall is not "enclosing" any Room elements because they're getting calculated 2" under the bottom of the wall. I hope that makes sense.

[ToanDN · Accepted solution]

You can TAB to select individual basic wall instance within a stacked wall and assign the Room bounding parameter.