Wall Joins

[Allen Lacy]

Is there a way to set wall joins to default to mitered? This seems to be the join that I prefer. It's a bit of a PITA to change all the joins from butt to mitered. This could be a wishlist item.

[beegee]

The default wall join behavior is set in View Properties - Wall Join Display.

There are two choices -
1. Clean All Wall Joins: The default is to mitre all joining walls.

2. Clean Same Type Wall Joins: Only walls of the same type will mitre by default. Other wall types will default to a butt join.

[LRaiz]

View property only controls display of wall joins, it does not control the way joins are constructed internally and in 3d. Different plan views that show the same join may decide independently to either clean up or don't the same wall join. However if the join itself is changed in one view it will show the change in all views. Unfortunately there is no user control for selection of default join condition. Two wall joins are defaulted to butt condition because this is the way walls are usually constructed.

[beegee]

View property only controls display of wall joins, it does not control the way joins are constructed internally and in 3d. Different plan views that show the same join may decide independently to either clean up or don't the same wall join. However if the join itself is changed in one view it will show the change in all views. Unfortunately there is no user control for selection of default join condition. Two wall joins are defaulted to butt condition because this is the way walls are usually constructed.

Well thats interesting to know.

It would make more sense to have a global wall join clean up. I can't think of a case where you would want the join showing different conditions in different plan views.
From what you're saying Leonid, the global join only happens when a user intervenes to change the existing condition ?

Although walls are usually constructed as butt joins of materials/elements, conventional drafting practice is that they show as a mitre if they are the same construction. ie brick to brick.

The ability to define the default condition would be useful, I think.

[LRaiz]

begee wrote
Although walls are usually constructed as butt joins of materials/elements, conventional drafting practice is that they show as a mitre if they are the same construction. IE brick to brick.
Up to this point we assumed that people set up their views to clean up wall joins and do not show a separating line between walls of the same type at all. This is especially true considering that currently Revit orients drafting patterns of wall layer materials not relative to walls (like in other programs) but relative to a view. We do have a long standing request to orient patterns relative to walls (according to conventional practice) and as part of such an enhancement it would make sense to start defaulting joins between walls of the same type to miter.