I created a Veneer Stone wall type with a stone cap sweep (#2 below) so I could wrap that type around a low 8” cmu wall (#1 below). I want the cmu wall and the bottom of the sweep (cap) to be 3’-4” above 0’-0”. My problem is that once I set the bottom of the cap to be at 3’-4”, the corners of the wall do not close correctly. The 1st image below for instance shows the bottom of the cap at 4’-0”, and everything is fine. When I lower it to 3’-4” the corners go awry as shown in the second image. Could someone please tell me where I should look to correct this? I attached the file if someone has the time to look at it. Thanks!
Wall Won't Close Correctly
I do have the wall sweep integral with the wall type, and set at 0’-0” from the top, i.e, the sweep sits on top of the wall. See 1st image below. When I set the sweep to be -2.5” from the top I get the message “Could not create wall sweep for wall instance. Failed to cut wall”.
I looked at disallowing joins and miters vs. butt, but I can’t tell if I am doing it right, and don’t really yet understand the difference. I did notice that on #2 on the second image below, that when I changed a corner from miter to butt, it messed up the corner. (I am looking up tutorials for miter and butt joining but haven’t gotten there yet).
With respect to the second image below: All three of these instances uses the same wall type for the veneer stone, and all three have their top of wall at level height 3’-4”.
- #1 is a longer version of my pier and is working fine.
- #2 is a shorter version from a separate file that I pasted into this drawing. It looks good, but when I move it, the corners go askew like #3.
- #3 is a copy of #2 after it’s been moved. Also in #3, when I check the corner join, the butt and miter are grayed out. I don’t know why, yet.
I think I may have go to a separate wall sweep as suggested by Eduardo above, but I would relay like to understand why some of my integral wall types work and others don’t.
Wierd. I cannot reproduce your problem in Revit 2015, Build: 20150127_0715(x64). That's Update Release 6.
I've even reduced the wall rectangle down to 6"x6" clean inside and no problems. Pretty sure I've used all the same type settings and sweep settings as you, except for using concrete and brick in lieu of stucco and stone. I did not even mess with the default butt join conditions or anything. I did have to disallow join on both ends of the CMU wall to keep its edge lines from disappearing against the inner layer of the surrounding wall, but either way it didn't effect the cap sweep.
Ignore the 1/2" GAP. I went back and aligned the outside walls' interior edges with the CMU, and forgot to delete the note before I did the screen grab.
