Wall Top Constraint from Depth to Height

[Anonymous]

Hello. I am having problems when placing walls, I want to change constraints option from depth to height but for one reason Revit doesn't seem to let me. Help appreciated.Thanks 

[ToanDN]

That happens when you create Structural walls. My uneducated guess is that when you draw a structural wall at a level, Revit assumes the wall is to support this level, hence its top cannot be at a different level.

You can either live with that and change the top constraint after the fact, or create the wall using Architectural wall tool, and change it to Structural later.

[Anonymous]

@ToanDN

Thanks for your reply!

As you can see in my screencast, I selected Architectural wall not structural and I cannot change from depth to height constraint..

[Anonymous]

OK. I found out.

I was using a wall-type with the function set to Foundation- which automatically defaults to depth when drawings. If I use the exterior wall function (for example) then I regain the option to draw walls with the height/depth option. It appears that exterior walls by default will draw to height.

[Base12]

Revitician, great call!  This has been plaguing me for a long time!