Stacked Wall

[sean.keohane]

Hi,

I'm new to revit, just a couple of weeks. I have created a stacked wall (see elevation and section screen shot). An issue I'm having is the upper portion of the stack is stepped back from 1 side and closed by the other side. Why doesn't the whole wall close to the corner? I've shown an elevation, cross section and the edit assembly dialogue box to help describe what I've done.

thanks

Sean

[Revit_Whisperer · Accepted solution]

By default the walls join by butting into each other...try changing the wall join to miter...it will look the way you want it to in an elevation...when they butt into each other they look the way you see it in the image on the left in an elevation view.

To edit the wall join, go to a plan view, Modify tab, Geometry panel, select the wall join tool, then place your cursor over the wall corner, click to place the box at the corner and then on the options bar set it to miter.

[FGPerraudin]

Stacked walls are exactly what the name says...

Revit treats them as different walls that are linked in the way they are drawn.

Which means that the junction can happen differently at different heights of the wall.

It is highly recommended by specialists to explode the stacked walls as soon as the general design is made .

I personnaly like to solve the problems one by one, but stacked walls stack junction issues as well!

So, that said, here is what you can try:

1. Identify clearly what wall interracts with you stacked wall, and if it iterracts maybe with different parts of you stacked wall.
2. go floor by floor to solve the junction mode with the appropriate tool (select a wall > modify > Geometry > wall join). Be careful, the tools is used via the green info ribbon at the top of the drawing window: Pick a wall junction, then use the info ribbon to navigate through possible joints!
3. Keep a 3D view open on the side to check the changes!

If this is not enough, do not hesitate exploding your stacked wall (right click on the wall > break up)

Keep me updated about the result!

Cheers,

François