Stacked walls instance parameters.

[Anonymous]

I find stacked walls tool very useful. Unfortunately, You cannot add an instance parameter (or any other) to a stacked wall. You can't even change basic wall instance parameter when it's a part of a stacked wall (all greyed out).

Imagine You would create an instance parameter and add it to basic walls, and to stacked walls. Next when You would fill the instance parameter in the stacked wall it would pass the value to instance parameter of every basic wall it consists of!

Might be useful when You don't want to have tens of stacked walls (and due that tens of basic walls) only for a purpose to make a tag read some particular value from basic wall... (f.eg. Fire Rating)

Kind regards!

Bartek

[BIMAbhi]

How to add custom parameter value assign in Revit Stacked Wall like Generic Wall.

Scenario:

We are facing one issue while putting any Mark ID value into Stacked Wall. It works fine with Generic wall.
Mainly we have created one Stacked Wall with two Generic Wall and want to put one parameter "Mark ID" value into the parameter. Parameter is a Text based parameter. We can't put the value into the stacked wall.
Example: Wall A & Wall B are the Generic Wall & Created Stacked "Wall C" with Wall A & Wall B.

[PeterKnight]

Just checked in Revit 2022 and it seems this is still an issue.

What am I missing about stacked walls? If we want to asign data to identify the walls within the stacked walls how do you do it? Typically identity data for a project needs to be instance based - or have 1000's of types. I can't see why this isn't possible.

[crau]

This would have been nice to see updated in 2022... hopefully now 2023. Our office uses a custom wall type tag with built in instance parameter for height that is manual text based entry. For standard walls, this works great as our height parameter is keyed to simplify: to underside of structure (S), underside of ceiling (C), 6" above ceiling (C6), underside of countertop (CT), and partial height (P, or actual dimension, example: 8'). With stacked walls not reporting, or rather graying out instance based properties, our text based height parameter was rendered useless on a recent large industrial project where instead we were able to resort to a duplicate wall type tag, visually identical to our office standard, but the S for height was preloaded into the new stacked wall tag as text, rather than a modifiable instance label. It works for now, but has it's limitations. 

[egio7XAEJ]

Like other components , it will be very good idea that project parameters will be able to apply at stacked wall

[Sean_Page]

We also use instance based custom parameters for Fire Rating information and then try to leverage updaters to populate opening protections based on that, but stacked walls always cause issues for it. I would agree that either a singular instance parameter for the stacked wall as a whole, or be able to read / push the instance from the parts. It somewhat works in reverse because when you get the "Host" of a door in a stacked wall, a singular wall is returned, and it is NOT the stacked wall instance. This makes it hard to then check for IsStackedWall property as well.

[ccyuW9CYR]

As we build the model, we have to give an extra parameter to identify the difference between different walls. For instance, we have to provide extra info to identify different walls in different buildings. But this function is limited while we are building the stack wall, so we can't do anything to the stack wall. We hope it will be available in the future. Sincere thanks.

 

[syedn-c]

You can work around and can have an instance parameter in stacked wall, but imagine you have tons of them?

The Autodesk should really incorporate this into Revit.

[maxime.tremblay3]

i need it yesterday !