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coastalclimbing

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I am trying to use revit to design an indoor climbing wall and I am having a difficult time using revit to fully control the design. Mainly the design is comprised of large geometric flat triangles or quadrilaterals see attached image. I have an introductory understanding of massing. I am hoping someone could walk me throught the process of how they would approach this or provide any resources that would be beneficial. 

Thanks in advance

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coastalclimbing

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Realizing that my first post was a bit broad here are a few specifics issue I am running into:

· When I move into xray view or select a vertex and pull a side it creates irregular panels that are not flat. Is there a way to pull the vertex to preserve flat surfaces. 

· I am not able to create more than one edge on a flat surface, I can't make an edge off of a created edge.

· When I divide the surface the surface, areas overlap where panels meet.  It is strange because the triangles are curved on the intersecting sides and not actually triangles.

· After I host walls onto the mass how should I deal with two intersecting walls to clean the overlapping walls?(see screen shot attachment) Is there a way to combine a mass in place and conceptual mass into one? 

I have found that using sketchup is easier to create the mass but I feel like it shouldn't be. I am importing from Sketchup as a workaround but I would rather not because I like the massing environment better in revit as I can be more accurate with specific angles. 

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks

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