What's the best way to model a retaining wall?

[Dave F.]

Hi
Using RS'09

I maybe missing something, but there seems no easy way to construct a
retaining wall run.
There a family in the Library, but I'm at a loss how to mitre them at
corners of the run.

I've tried drawing a basic wall & adding a solid sweep family for the base
but I couldn't select more than one section of the wall as the path & the
base was not joined to the wall.

Is there not a way to draw a retaining wall the same way as you would a
normal wall by selecting points & it automatically mitring a changes in
direction?

What am I failing to understand?
I Hope you can help.

Cheers
Dave F

I Hope you can help me

Cheers
Dave F

[Jshaver]

Dave,

If you are referring to a concrete wall used to retain soil we use a standard structural wall object.

I suspect you may be referring to what is also known as a turndown? If so this is easily placed using the modeling-host sweep-floor slab edge tool. Predefined profiles can be used to create a sweep along multiple floor edges whilst properly joining them together.

Could you clarify what you are trying to achieve?

[allan_bim]

Go to modelling tab, select structural wall, create a concrete wall at the desired width within it's properties. Draw it on plan, it will automatically join/mitre all corners.

Then once you have the wall in place under the modelling tab go to foundation =>wall, if you look under the properties once you have picked this, you have the option to pick a retaining footing which allows you to place a toe and heel offset, once you have amended this to suit the size you need to click on the wall and it will apply the foundation to the underside of you're wall, effectively locking it to it. This will allow you pick each wall and will tidy up all joins as it goes.

If you need to add in steps to the top of the wall, go to the elevation of the wall, click on the wall and select 'edit profile' from here you can make the wall look like anything you want.

[Andre Carvalho]

Is there not a way to draw a retaining wall the same way as you would a
normal wall by selecting points & it automatically mitring a changes in
direction?

You can also create a profile family and add that to the wall assembly. That way, you do exactly as you want: draw a wall and the sweep that's embedded into the wall will automatically follow...

Andre Carvalho