Model a retaining wall

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We'll begin by creating a new project

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on the home screen, select new project

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and then make sure that you're using a structural analysis, default template file.

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So here we are in our new project and you'll notice that level two is the active level.

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What I'm gonna do first is change the

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distance between the levels to match our profile.

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So we're intending to make a wall that is 8 ft higher.

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So change level two from 10 ft to 8 ft.

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And we go back into a level two plan.

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We'll now go ahead and create the wall.

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Let's select the structure ribbon

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and on the structure ribbon, select wall

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in the properties pallet,

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we'll begin with generic eight inch and we'll click edit type.

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Let's begin by renaming the wall type.

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So we'll call this one retaining wall.

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And here we can edit the structure

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in order to add a sweep, we'll need to change our preview from plan to section.

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And now you can see that sweep is active

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before we add the sweep. We also want to change the sample height of our wall.

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We're going to change this. So it matches our profile height

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So we'll set this to 8 ft.

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Let's now go ahead and select sweep

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in the wall sweeps dialog box. We'll first need to load in our profile.

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So we'll select load profile.

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We can go ahead and select our retaining wall profile

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and then click open.

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We'll then add that into the wall sweeps dialogue.

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And here we can choose our retaining wall profile.

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You'll notice that the profile is currently being created from the base of the wall.

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So we'll change that to top.

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And if I click apply here, we can then get a preview of what's going to happen.

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So this is looking good. So we'll click. OK.

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And OK, again to the edit assembly dialog box

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and OK, again to the type properties

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and now we're ready to model a retaining wall.

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So we'll just draw some sort of a shape on screen here

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and we'll now create a 3d view

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up on the quick access toolbar. Let's select default 3d view

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for clarity on the view control toolbar. I'll switch off the analytical model

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and I'll also change the visual style to realistic.

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So we can now clearly see our retaining wall and notice that

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we have our sloping face on the front of the wall.

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Let's now add a foundation onto the wall

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on the structure ribbon.

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We'll go ahead here and select wall foundation

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in the properties paddock.

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I'm going to change my wall foundation from bearing footing to retaining footing

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and then we can select our wall

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and you can see the footing is then placed.

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If I need to change the direction of the footing,

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I can select the footing and then we can use the flip symbol here.

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So we'll just flip these. So they're around the other way

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and there's our wall.

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If we wanted to edit the angle of the wall, then we could change the profile

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to do this. If we take a look in the project browser, we'd expand the family folder

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and then we'll go ahead and expand profiles.

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You'll see on the profiles. We have our retaining wall profile.

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I'm going to select the default type here,

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which was just called retaining wall profile.

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We'll right mouse click over that and go to type properties.

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You'll notice here that we can now access all of our dimensions.

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So I'm now going to increase this to five degrees

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and we'll click. OK.

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And we can now see that all of the walls of that type have now updated.

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So profiles are a very efficient way of controlling geometry within

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rats.