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To create a control joint "gap" that will show up in my plan and elevation, I used the "opening" option under the modelling tab and cut the opening in the wall in plan. Works great until I noticed that the opening topped out well short of the top of my wall in elevation and in 3D viewing. (See attached images.) The exterior wall is a stacked wall but the opening doesn't stop at the beginning or ending of any of the stacked walls. Why does Revit do this kind of crap to me? What have I done to deserve it?
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Don't split your wall - use a vertical wall reveal.
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....................and set the opening height at whatever I wanted. That took care of my problem. When you say do a "vertical reveal" is that a different process than cutting the opening in the wall in plan? Are you cutting it in elevation or is this something else entirely? Thanks for the help.
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In elevation and the modeling menu, select "Host Sweep", "wall Reveal" and choose the profile you want. (You will probably have to create the one you want but use something that's already there to check out the process.) If this is a construction jt in masonry, you might model this as a shallow 'V' . You could also model it as a positive wall sweep that is the full depth of the masonry - the thickness of the sealant and color or material approprite.
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Aren't you talking about using a sweep to create a horizontal joint in the wall? Since you seem to be an experienced Revit user, I want to ask if you have fits with stacked walls like I have been experiencing. The Autodeck Revit architects that I have talked to admit that stacked walls do funny things somtimes and they don't know why. 1) I seem to only be able to miter one end of stack walls, sometimes. This seems to happen when they reach over 100 ft. without a break. I take the exit same stacked wall and when I don't happen to create the four walls by linking at the same time, I end up with one of the four corners un-mitered when I corner trim all four corners. I separate the unmitered corner, re-trim, it miters fine, but one of the others then unmiters itself. I have to split the wall into two separate pieces to get both ends to corner miter in plan. Autodesk has no explanation for this. 2) Sometimes I could make a 3/4" break in a wall (to create that vertical control joint mentioned above) that separated perfectly, further down in the same wall at another "joint" I would have to right click on the blue dot on each side of the joint to select "dissallow join" to keep the break open, and then on the next joint even that wouldn't work. That joint refused to "not join" and would not let me create a 3.4" break in the wall. Again, Autodesk has no explanation. 3) Along with the corner mitering problem, when one of the walls being mitered was a gable wall attached to the roof, when one corner the gable wall unmitered itself, half of the gable wall also unattached itself to the roof, BUT it was the opposite half away from the corner that became unmitered. It would not let me reattach that half of the wall to the roof until I got the opposite corner to miter in plan. Does anyone else have these kind of problems with stacked walls?
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I could not replicate the problems you are having with your stacked walls. On the modeling tab>host sweep>wall reveal on the bar above your screen it will say horizontal or vertical. I just tried it on a stacked wall with a ½"x½" profile. You have to click on your stacked wall twice, once on the bottom material and once on the top.....THEN click start next. That's my wishlist pet peeve (the start next thing) my personal preference with the attach wall thing is not to do it. make your wall profile match your gable end wall. I have a paranoid suspicion that joining stuff reduces performance. It just seems every now and then my project will just come to a crawl for no apparent reason.
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I hope the attach wall thingy isn't a major cause of how huge Revit files get cause I really like being able to change my roof level and having all the walls follow automatically. That wall opening in elevation works great.
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Hogmodo, Sweeps - Reveals are basically the same. One is positive and the other is negative and both can be applied either vertically or horizontally. The vertical / horizontal "switch" is on your status bar after you choose if it's a reveal or sweep.
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