Wall layout, design, and editing with Revit - Inserting and changing wall types

Tutorial resources

These downloadable resources will be used to complete this tutorial:

Step-by-step guide

Substitute existing walls with a new wall type.

Open the file W-Arch_C-Wall-Types_RVT2021.rvt, where a new wall type, Basic Wall: 8ʺ Insulated Stud, was previously created.
Select one of the exterior walls.

In the Revit interface, in the Level 1 plan view, one of the exterior walls selected.

In the context menu for the selected wall, Select All Instances highlighted, and in the flyout, In Entire Project selected.

In the Properties palette, select the current wall type to expand the Type Selector.
Select the wall type, such as Basic Wall: 8ʺ Insulated Stud.

In the Properties palette, in the Type Selector, the new wall type selected.

The selected walls update, but with no visible changes. The Detail Level is currently set to Coarse, so you do not see the layers.

A zoomed-in view of a building corner, and in the View Control Bar, Detail Level expanded with Medium selected.

The layers in the wall now display.

In a zoomed-in view of the building corner, wall layers now display for the new wall type.