I’m back! If who haven’t used the stacked wall feature in Revit, you are missing out! It has come in handy just recently on a project I’ve been working on. Stacked walls allow you to design some pretty neat wall types that you may have thought never were possible. It also allows you to do some neat layering as well. See both the screen shot and the video.

Revit often offers many different ways to go about things. Some ways are obviously better than others depending on the situation. The catch is that it usually takes a good deal of trial and error until users learn the best procedure that fits certain situations. Once a solid understanding of this is achieved, a lot of time can be saved.

I’ll be the first to admit that my first Revit project was done much differently than how I would draw it today. I believed that in order for a storefront glazing system to appear correctly, you had to first edit the shape of its host wall to then fit your storefront. So I would proceed by placing the two walls, one inside of the other and then editing the profile sketch of the host wall to fit my glazing. How embarrasing for me..

The problem with this is what happens if my glazing needs to change in size? Or what if my host wall needs to move in any direction? Both walls acted independently of each other. The fix for this? Check out the video! It’s my first so please don’t be too critical..:)

I should note also that you can place MULTIPLE walls, not just two. Example, a wall within a wall that is within another wall etc. I plan on adding additional videos that cover the “overlooked” items in Revit that really shouln’t be. For now, I gotta figure out how to make that video more clear!!