Graphics Programs Reference
In-Depth Information
You can refer to Chapter 14, “Designing with the Family Editor,” to explore the various modeling
techniques available in the Model In-Place mode. Remember that the selection of the family category
is important to the behavior of the custom geometry. Select the Walls category to allow your custom
elements to be scheduled with other walls and to place hosted elements such as doors and windows.
Creating Stacked Walls
Walls in a building—especially exterior walls—are often composed of several wall types made
out of different material combinations and with different widths that stack one on top of another
over the height of the façade. Because these walls usually sit on top of a foundation wall, you
would likely want to establish an intelligent relationship among the different wall assemblies so
the entire façade acts as one wall (for example, when the foundation wall moves and you expect
walls on top of the foundation to also move). This is where stacked walls can help.
Stacked walls allow you to create a single wall entity composed of different wall types
stacked on top of each other. Before you can create a stacked wall, you need to download some
basic wall types into your project. So follow these steps to download a variety of stacked walls
and then modify one of them:
Certification
Objective
1.
Download and open the file c12-Stacked-Walls.rvt or c12-Stacked-Walls-Metric
.rvt from this topic's web page at
www.sybex.com/go/masteringrevit2015.
Activate the Level 1 floor plan view.
2.
From the Architecture tab in the ribbon, pick the Wall tool and select Stacked Wall:
Exterior - Brick Over Block W Metal Stud (you can find stacked wall types at the bottom
of the list in the Type Selector). Draw a segment of wall in the Level 1 floor plan, and then
exit the Wall command.
3.
Select the wall segment, and in the Properties palette click the Edit Type button. Click the
Duplicate button to create a new stacked wall named
Mastering Stacked Wall
.
4.
Click the Edit button in the Structure field to open the Edit Assembly dialog box. Open
the preview pane and set the view to Section.
When you're editing the stacked wall type, you'll notice that the Edit Assembly dialog
box (Figure 12.31) is slightly different than when you're working with a basic wall. Rather
than editing individual layers, in this dialog box you are editing stacked wall types and
their relationships to each other.
5.
Click the Insert button to add a new wall to the stacked wall assembly. A new row
appears in the list and allows you to define a new wall. Select the Generic - 12ʺ (Generic -
300 mm) wall type from the Name list, and enter a Height of
10
ʹ
-0
ʺ (
3
m) (the Width value
is not important in this exercise).
6.
At the top of the dialog box, find the Offset drop-down list and change the setting to
Finish Face: Interior.
This will align the interior faces of the stacked walls and allow you to use the Offset field
in the Types table to adjust each stacked wall type in a predictable manner.
7.
Select the row of the generic wall type by clicking the row's number label at the left side
of the table. Click the Variable button to allow the wall to vary in height to adjust with
varying level heights.
