STEPPED WALL FOOTING

[dotrvt]

How can i stop the footing doing this? (see attached)

i only want it to stay at the lower bottom face of the wall.

would prefer to leave the wall as one piece as its being scheduled.

thanks,

[Roger Walker]

Hi Dotrvt,

Two work arounds and a sneaky trick:
1. Make your wall footing out of a thick, flat wall element, then you control where it goes and you'll also be able to make a smooth sloping bottom where you have stepped footings (footing tool just steps the bottom and doesnt respect construct-ability)
2. Make your wall footing a beam (in both cases you can disable the analytical model) use some shared params to filter out/into the right schedules.
3. Sneaky trick: Make the portion of the wall bottom where you don't want the footing a very very very shallow arc approximating your high bottom edge. The footing won't be placed on an arc bottom. (assuming you used edit profile to make the step)

Hope that helps!

[jrichardson]

Looks like you did an edit profile on the wall. When doing this Revit Still thinks this is the bottom of your wall, which it is, so it continues to add the footing to the bottom of your wall. You might want to try to split your wall where you would like the bottom to be at a different elevation. This will allow you to remove the portion of the footing at the upper wall. Hopefully this is what you were looking for.

[dotrvt]

Hi Dotrvt,

Two work arounds and a sneaky trick:
1. Make your wall footing out of a thick, flat wall element, then you control where it goes and you'll also be able to make a smooth sloping bottom where you have stepped footings (footing tool just steps the bottom and doesnt respect construct-ability)
2. Make your wall footing a beam (in both cases you can disable the analytical model) use some shared params to filter out/into the right schedules.
3. Sneaky trick: Make the portion of the wall bottom where you don't want the footing a very very very shallow arc approximating your high bottom edge. The footing won't be placed on an arc bottom. (assuming you used edit profile to make the step)

Hope that helps!

With either option 1 or 2 is it possible to add that to my foundation schedule? Or will I have to create a new mixed category schedule?

[dotrvt]

Looks like you did an edit profile on the wall. When doing this Revit Still thinks this is the bottom of your wall, which it is, so it continues to add the footing to the bottom of your wall. You might want to try to split your wall where you would like the bottom to be at a different elevation. This will allow you to remove the portion of the footing at the upper wall. Hopefully this is what you were looking for.

That was my first thought..... but unfortunately don't think I can do this as the wall is a precast concrete panel that is has it's volume tonnage and sqm calculated in a schedule

[BecFra]

if you use the wall opening tool instead of edit profile, and just draw the wall opening making sure the bottom of the opening goes past the top of your foundation, it will eliminate the foundation all together.