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oolaef

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Hi guys,

Splitting some of the exterior walls in my project to represent a brick soldier course at their top and bottom - this has worked fine for 90% of the walls - there's a few that seem unselectable by the split face tool, which is frustrating! I hover the tool over the walls, and the blue guide lines show the correct face, but whenever I click it either doesn't respond, or jumps to a nearby face that I don't want to split. They are plain exterior walls, not curved, and often the face the tool jumps to is another face on the same wall (not the one I want though).

Have you experienced anything like this? Solutions?

Thanks!

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WWHub

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"....and often the face the tool jumps to is another face on the same wall..."  << Makes no sense.  If working in elevation, you only see the front face.

Click on the wall and temporarily isolate it in view.  Now split it.

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oolaef

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A little run-on I agree, but I think it makes sense!

In any case, thanks for the reply - I've tried this is in elevation as you suggested, but cannot select the front face of the wall with the split face tool - the blue guide lines show correctly, but clicking on the face gives no response. Weird?

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WWHub

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Process problem.  You have to select the edge of the wall to pick the wall you waill be splitting face.

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oolaef

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You mean I'm meant to click the wall's edge rather than 'on' the face of the wall to go into the split face editing mode? Neither works unfortunately.

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You need to spend some time with some Revit books and the Revit HELP!

Please read this topic:  Splitting Faces

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Thanks WWHub.

Actually the issue was to do with Hardware Acceleration tracking my clicks in a weird way - turning this off solved the problem.

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