Infill - Yes or No option

[Anonymous]

Surprised this is not on the idea list already.

We need the ability to have the infill be a yes or no parameter when demolishing a window or door.  When a door or window is placed in the same spot, the infill will remain.  The only way of getting around this currently is to create a wall in the same place as the door or window and demolish the wall so you are left with an opening.  Then you can place a new wall with the size of door or window needed.  If we had the ability to select yes or no for the infill, those extra steps would be eliminated.

[tariqallaham]

Why to have an automatic filling at all?

Revit would not auto-fill openings in floor and roof from a demolished shaft. So why does it auto-fill openings from demolished door and windows?

In real life the most wall openings are not filled with the same structure as the original wall.

Auto-fill in demolished openings in walls should have been taken off as an automatic reaction. Instead it should be replaced with an option to adapt/adjust/fit new walls and structural frames to remaining openings.

[tariqallaham]

@Anonymous 

A great solution you can try till Autodesk resolve this issue.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltsKR7MdSr8&feature=emb_logo

[kimberly.fuhrman]

We are updating this thread to Gathering Support. We are continuing to evaluate where this request falls into our roadmap and will provide an update when we have made a decision. 

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[rapT7BU2]

It is kind of sad that more than 4 years after this idea was originally posted, Autodesk recognizes it as "gathering support".

It's not: "yeah, we're working on that" or "we'll put it on our roadmap".

No, it's 4 years and then: "maybe we'll develop it and maybe we won't".

[YarUnderoaker]

Ha-ha, please stand by without any explanations...

Maybe your grandson will get this feature in future.

[MichaelRuehr]

330 Votes and still?

I can't understand this is back to gathering support and has been under Review before

It is clearly one of the tool implementations in Revit that are a thousand miles away from real life.

This would make such a HUGE change and while working on Walls make so much sense to remove it.

[evaNQT83]

YES! Make Revit reflect actual demolishing!

Also, option 2, with automatical infill, needs to be massively improved:

1. The infill wall needs phase information. Today it’s neither part of existing nor new phase when they in fact should belong to new phase.
2. The infill lacks Base/Top Constraint, Base/Top offset/Unconnected Height. (The only reporting quantity parameter is Area.)
3. The wall placement within the exterior/interior side of the host wall is limited. You can only constrain it to the location line options. Any other offset is impossible.
4. The boundary line between host wall and infill wall is invisible. This makes it nearly impossible to dimension the new infill wall if it has the same thickness as the host wall.

All of the above points makes these infills a nightmare to schedule, dimension and check.

[MichaelWarwick7522]

Found that if the door has both voids and openings making the hole in the wall it doesn't auto infill the (host) wall. Found this trying to make voids work on joined walls.

 

[Lars_Jeppesen]

Please add me / our practice to the 'yes please' list.  With us working on refurb projects in conjunction with external consultants, we need to ensure that the model is correct, therefore cannot utilise filters to control some views.

Yes, there are workarounds but that is just a waste of our time, when a simple tick box could resolve the issue.

[Ric_Weber]

@kimberly.fuhrman  This idea should be combined with the earlier posted idea: https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-ideas/infill-yes-or-no-option/idi-p/6473443#comments  Thank you!