Wall Finish Familiy

[RudyBeuc]

I'd like a (optional) separate family for wall finishes. 

This way one would not have to have multiple wall families for a single partition type. If a certain partition separates a bathroom from an office, 1 wall family and then two different wall finish families. The bathroom side has a sweep for the base cove tile and a layer for the wall tile. The office side has a different sweep for it's base, a 0 thickness layer for the paint, and perhaps a sweep for crown molding. If someone in the interiors department needs to change something, they don't have to fuss with the wall family, just the finish family.

If one wants fancy wood paneling, a complex finish family could be used. I imagine that such a family might resemble the current curtain wall family.

Currently I'm achieving something similar by using a separate wall family for finishes and furring. Say I have a foundation wall. It's an 8" conc. wall family. Then say only part of the wall needs to be finished for a certain room. I'll have one concrete wall for the foundation, then run a new furring wall family running only down the length of the wall that I need. Joining the geometry of the two walls allows windows and doors in one to punch holes in the wall they are not directly hosted in. The system works fine except for two things. 1 window and door frames do not extend to the appropriate surface; and 2, wall end joins can be a bear.

Thanks,

Rudy Beuc

[Yien_Chao]

Walls have an exterior and interior side.
It would be nice to have parameters for each side, so we can asign a painting for example.
Now im creating shared parameters for that, but when i flip the wall the tag won't follow. But, oh well is still better than painting the surfaces or adding a small thickness for finishes.

[samuelsanf]

Agree. A few weeks ago I post someting similar:
http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-ideas/real-fnish-materials-on-rooms-schedules/idi-p/6725433

[samuelsanf]

Related ideas:

• https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-ideas/wall-finish-familiy/idi-p/6977422
• https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-ideas/materials-and-finishes-are-not-the-same/idi-p/6489981
• https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-ideas/finishes-on-wall/idi-p/6789237

[Christiaan_de_Wit]

I've been struggling a lot with finishes in Revit and I've been thinking a lot about how the software could be improved to help get what I need.

See my comment at another related Idea at https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-ideas/materials-and-finishes-are-not-the-same/idc-p/7034796#M75...

[sasha.crotty]

Thanks for taking the time to submit your idea. Unfortunately, this idea did not get the support of the community over the last 6 months and as such we will not be pursuing it at this time. Please feel free to rework (titles and clear descriptions are really important) and resubmit this one down the road.

[Anonymous]

What about adding a Wall Finish layers by selecting face

.....like pain by Face 

that is make finishing more easy

[Anonymous]

its a great idea 

[dplumb_BWBR]

"pain by Face" 

I know it's a typo, but that IS exactly the way I feel about that tool.

[samuelsanf]

There is a related idea (also with a typo, too):

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-ideas/real-fnish-materials-on-rooms-schedules/idi-p/6725433

[Ryan_Williams-MRB]

Finishes that respond to room geometry and wall / floor openings. Revit rooms smartly adjust to changes in wall layout, and wall sweeps smartly cut at doors and windows. Combine the two! Wall base particularly is a headache no matter how it's sliced now.

Corner guards that can automatically be placed and located without fussy drafting (think like how a tag automatically centers itself on the tagged object). Then, make the object smartly adapt to changes in wall layout without going in and locking the guard to the wall manually (again, like a tag). If the corner gets wonked along the way, leave it in place unhosted, then allow to pick new host (corner) when the user sees it floating.

And like several other suggestions, make these things appear in schedules.