Wall join cleanup when using Top/Bottom Extension feature

[acastana06]

I have attached the model I am working on. In this model, I have modified the top extension distance of the basement walls. However, notice that the intermediary basement wall (circled in the attached picture) does not clean-up correctly: even if both adjacent walls have the top extensions modified and equal, the problem wall still maintains the "unlocked" materials.

Question is then, how should I model this so that I get an uninterrupted "band" of basement wall with modified top extension?

PS: reason why I want to do this is following: the infrastructure has a different kind of thermal insulation than the superstructure, and the infrastructure insulation is not up to exactly Level 1, but slightly lower. I want to model this condition, so that I can then turn the insulation material (of both infrastructure and superstructure) into parts and model the pieces of insulation, so that I can then schedule and count them - leading to a more accurate shopping list.

Thanks in advance. Much appreciated.

[ahjorn]

You simply needed to disallow the join of the 2 adjacent walls and adjust them to either side of the basement wall.

Your revit file is attached.

[acastana06 · Accepted solution]

Hi ahjorn, thanks for the hint.

 

Actually I found that by using the WallJoin tool to get the condition illustrated (the 2 exterior walls butting against each other and the perpendicular wall butting against the 2 walls) I get a condition that is much closer to what I wanted. This method also worked in several other places where I was able to cleanup the model this way.

 

 

[ahjorn]

@acastana06  That's great. I clearly misunderstood what you were aiming for. Great job