Working with structural walls Part 2

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After completing this lesson, you will be able to edit wall joints,

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edit a wall profile and work with wall constraints.

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The objective domains covered are 1.1 c work with structural walls.

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When a wall intersects another wall rev it by default,

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we will join the walls together.

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Often you may want to change the way the wall joins.

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For example, if a wall with unequal thicknesses needs to be joined

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the but joint can control which wall takes priority.

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If a wall is not at 90 degrees to another wall,

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it may be more preferable to use the square off option.

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By default. A wall's profile is rectangular,

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you can edit the shape of a wall by editing the wall's profile.

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In the example below, a retaining wall has a drainage hole and a sloped end.

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Go ahead and open up the file 006 work with structural walls. Part two,

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the model will open up in a 3d view.

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We're gonna be working with this retaining wall

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on the left hand side of the structure.

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The first task for us is to edit the wall joins.

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If we look at the configuration of how these walls are joined.

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Currently,

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you'll notice that this wall takes priority and this small wall

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in the middle is butting up to this wall here.

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I'd like to edit that condition and perhaps make both of the walls miter.

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I can do this in 3d, but it'll be easier to show you this in the plane view.

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So in the project browser, let's go ahead and open up the 00 ground floor plan,

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we can then zoom in to the same wall

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on the modify ribbon,

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click wall joins

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as you move over wall joins or wall ends.

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Rev it displays a square in the plan or the 3D view.

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Let's select this position here

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and you can see here that rev it

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displays the current but configuration with a thin line

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up on the options bar.

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I can use previous or next to cycle between different but joint configurations

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in this example. However, we want to select miter,

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let's go ahead and select the next join

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and once again select miter from the options bar.

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Ok. So the wall joints are now configured

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here. We can switch back to the 3D view

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and just review our changes.

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Next, we are required to change the depth of our walls to do this.

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We're going to edit some of the wall constraints.

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This wall here requires to have a stepped foundation towards the end.

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In order to maintain this, I'm going to use the split command to split the wall

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on the modify walls, context ribbon,

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you'll note that we have split element.

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Let's go ahead and split the wall.

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Once the ward is split,

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you can use the temporary dimension to control where the split happens.

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In

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this case here, we're going to make this 45 ft.

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We can then select the end wall

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and not in the properties pad,

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we have the ability to change the top offset or in fact, the base offset of the wall.

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I'd like this wall to now go down 1.5 ft.

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So in the base off set dialog box, I can type in minus 18 inches

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and you'll now notice that the wall has dropped down.

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Next, we need to edit the wall profile.

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We need to incorporate a small drainage hole and also

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put a slope on the top of the retaining wall,

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select the section of wall here

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and on the context ribbon, we'll select edit profile

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by default. A wall sketch is rectangular.

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Here. We're going to use the line tool and we're going to sketch

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an angled line.

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I would like to set a dimension on the angled line.

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So we'll select the annotate ribbon

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and click angular.

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We can then pick the horizontal line and our new angled line

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and place a dimension.

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I then go to select my angled line that I have constructed

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and set the angle for six degrees.

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We can then add a circular profile into the wall for a drainage opening

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on the draw panel, we can select circle,

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we'll sketch our circular opening. In,

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in this example here, I would like the diameter of the opening to be six inches.

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So therefore, we can make the radius three inches.

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I want to position this accurately on the profile. So I'll select my circle

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and in the properties paddock will make center mark visible.

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I can then use the aligned dimension command

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to dimension my penetration.

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In this example here, I'll set this to 8 ft

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and I'll set my elevation to 1 ft.

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Before we finish editing the wall profile.

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We'll need to tidy the top of the wall up so I can delete this line here

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and then trim this line over here.

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And then we can go ahead and select finish edit mode

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and you can now see we have our retaining wall

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with a drainage hole inside and also a step.