Dimensioning splines and irregular curves

[nathan_mb617940]

I am studying architecture and for my assignment I have to provide a complete set of working drawings for a design assigned to me. I am having difficulty dimensioning a wall with a squiggle shaped profile. I don't have any experience in the industry yet and so I'm wondering what would be considered best practice for dimensioning a wall like this so that it can be constructed? I am using Revit Architecture 2011 and I have tried using the angular, radial, arc etc. however as the profile is composed of splines, it is not recognised by revit. I have tried simplifying the curves to a series of partial ellipses and arcs, however the drawing becomes messy with annotations as the centres are in different locations or in void spaces. Thank you in advance, I am at a loss on how this can be done effectively and still have my drawing legible.

Many thanks,

Nath

[david_peterson]

Short answer, there's only one way to a true spline, it's called a formula and contractors don't know how to use them.
You need to re-create the object using actual geometry. If you can't put a dimension to it, it's not going to be very constructable.
If this was my exercise, I'd turn in 2 answers, one would be a straight line cause I'm guessing it would look better. The other I would break it down into curves and center point and dimension all of them along with the angles needed to get all the work points.
Third answer would be to plot points using a total station.
Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should.