Walls and Curtain Walls - Autodesk Revit Architecture 2015 Essentials - page 33

Creating elliptical Walls
Because the need for elliptical walls may occur in your designs, we'll address
them now. You should know two things. First, elliptical walls can't be sketched
using the Draw tools. Second (and more important), they can be created via
workarounds (such as creating an elliptical mass and then picking the face of
the mass from which to create an elliptical wall).
So, what's a better way? Create elliptical wall layouts from a series of tangent
arcs. Doing so will give you an approximation that is indistinguishable from an
actual ellipse, and you'll be able to guide the walls' construction more accurately
in the field.
exercise 2.2: host a Door in a Wall
To begin, go to the topic's web page at www.sybex.com/go/revit2015essentials ,
download the files for Chapter 2, and open the file c02-ex-2.2start.rvt .
1. Activate the floor plan named Existing Walls.
2. Start the Door tool, and add three doors to the main horizontal wall
to the left of the vertical walls.
3. After placing a door, select the door and notice the temporary dimen-
sions that appear.
4. With the door still selected, adjust the temporary dimension so
they are 9″ off the center of the perpendicular walls (left-click the
temporary dimension Move Witness Line) to toggle the dimension
witness line.
5. Click the temporary dimension text, which allows you to enter 9 ″
( 230 mm ) (Figure 2.9).
FigUre 2.9 Hosting doors in a wall