Attaching Walls to Non-Uniform Shapes

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With the roof in place, we can now start thinking about how we're going to hold the roof up.

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In this video, I'd like to add some walls at the edges of the roof,

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and attach the tops and the bottoms to conform to the oddball shape of that roof that we've created.

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Okay, let's see how we can do this by jumping into Revit.

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As before, in the recent files, we simply click on the Architectural model.

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Which is a central model, and we're going to be overriding our existing local copy.

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We are welcome to the Startup screen. So let's go to the Floor Plans under Garden.

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We double click on that.

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Let's jump right in.

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So on my Architecture tab, click on Wall.

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And for our wall type, let's pick generic 5 inch.

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My base constraint will be roof, which is fine. And my base offset will be zero.

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My top constraint will be unconnected. And I want my unconnected height to be 12 feet.

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It doesn't really matter what the height is, because we'll be trimming the wall to extend to the roof.

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For our basic wall, click on Edit Type.

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And as before, we're going to duplicate that and call it Garden Roof. Click OK.

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We want to edit the structure.

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So under Construction Structure, click on the Edit button.

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And let's make the thickness - let's make it 3 inches.

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Once again, make sure that you add the inch symbol.

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Span this a little bit.

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And for the material, let's browse out once again,

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and select Glass, and OK.

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Click OK once again.

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And once again.

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So now the walls that we're going to be adding is the basic wall, Garden Roof.

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In my Draw panel, contextual Place Wall ribbon, I can pick lines.

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And let's set the offset to 6 inches. Zoom in.

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And pick the inner edge, this wall,

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and make sure that it's offset to the inside by keeping an eye on the light blue dashed line.

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And just go around and select the perimeters.

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Make sure that they're being offset on the inside. You see this dashed line which represents the wall.

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Okay, click Modify to finish the command.

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And let's see what this looks like in 3D.

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So in our Project Browser, go to the Garden View 3D and double click.

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The walls intersect the roof in places.

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In other places it doesn't quite reach up far enough.

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So it's quite simple what we need to do now.

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In order to select the four walls, I go and hover over one wall, it gets highlighted.

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And then I just tap the Tab key, and all four walls get highlighted.

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Now I select them, and you notice down in the lower right corner,

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in my filter icon, it shows me that four are selected.

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So I've got the four walls selected, we see how they don't quite project up to the roof.

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And also notice the base of the wall that intersects the previous wall mass that we created, that formwork.

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So what we can do is, in our contextual ribbon, we can attach to the top of the base.

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And I select the roof that we generated.

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And now it trims or extends the walls to meet that roof.

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I can once again go to my Attach Top Base.

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And in this case, I want to attach it to the base.

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And I select that form. Now it trims the walls back to reach that base.

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So there we have it,

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a funky roof with a glass translucent wall for our garden.

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Now, in the next section, we'll be looking at some design options to show to the client.

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To allow them to make more informed decisions by looking at different options.