Wall Join Problems and Lineweight Display by view

[lee.imbimbo]

So I know Wall Joins are the perpetual problem.  But I'm hoping that I'm just missing something.

I have a rather complex Wall Join issue, that I feel like shouldn't be that big a deal, but it is little things like that that are the bane of my existence right now.

I've got a wall where the studs go to one height, the substrate to another, then the stone veneer to yet another.  To make things even more complicated all three of those layers in reality have to be custom edited Profiles in order to be accurate.

Thus the Wall Join and Lineweight Problems.  For I don't want hyper thick lineweights everywhere, and if I join the walls, everything goes to ****.

In addition to not really having the kind of Wall Join Control that I really want, I don't seem to get the kind of lineweight control that I want.

Does anyone know of any way to just override ONE SPECIFIC line of an element?  I see how I can overwrite the element as a whole (effecting it's projection and cut profile, but I don't see how I could in a single view clean up the lineweights more effectively.  What I'd really prefer is the ability to outright select this line of an element and say it is 'X', and then select another line of that same element and say that it is 'Y'

[Alan.johnson1970 · Accepted solution]

You could use the Linework (LW) tool

[lee.imbimbo]

Thank you for your response, I had not found that tool.  That definitely helped me clean up several of my problems.  But it didn't resolve this one.  So I've added two pictures here to help me explain my goals.  One is with the middle wall unjoined, another is with them joined.

Let me explain the walls.

First, the Pink wall is the insulated wall, and it is drawn separately because it only goes up to deck, and in this image the deck it goes to is sloped.

Second is the two gray walls, which I'll call the interior Wall (between the insulated wall, and the Thin Stone Veneer wall.  It is a 6" Metal Stud with a 4" Air Layer that is going past the deck and do the Parapet.  The 6" Stud is set at the Exterior with the Air as the Core, and the Exterior is set to wrap, making for the stud return at the wall.

The Third is the Plywood, WAterproofing, Stucco, and Thinstone, which is all a veneer.  Also going to the PArapet

As you can see, UnJoined, and the wall had the big fat line.  Joined it draws the interior line ok, but leaves on area dropped out.  I tried your linework editing technique and even ran the lineweight to 16, and it leaves that one area dropped out.

In general I've noticed that Revit has real problems when it comes to modelling little tiny stud returns like this, although they happen all the time in reality.