walls, materials and stacked walls

[pinky]

I am creating a stacked wall with an inset of corrugated metal which I need to show in elevation and section. I have created a corrugated metal panel family that I need and have loaded it into my project.

I want to have this panel as part of my wall assembly. How do I add it to the wall assembly? I have edited the structure of the wall assembly to have the material be "corrugated metal" from the materials choices and have tried to have the panel I created be part of the materials by including it in the library and gone through and edited the material physical type, but I am not sure that is the way to go.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

Pinky

[Calvn_Swing]

To add something to a stacked wall, it has to be a wall. Or, you have to use a profile tool (sweep, etc...) to add it to the wall. You can't add the panel family to the stacked wall directly because it isn't a wall.

You have a couple of options.

#1. If it is only important that the material schedules, quantifies, and "looks" correct, then define it as a material (should have already done so within the panel family). Then, create a new wall in your project called whatever you want that has that as its exterior face. Then, add that into your stacked wall. Viola!

#2. If it also important to have the geometry of the panel look correct (corrugations) then you should add a profile to the wall in the appropriate place. This profile can be assigned the metal panel material you should already have created. It will also be part of the wall, should schedule correctly enough (unless you have some unusual demands from the wall schedules).

#3. Open your family, open a wall hosted family template, and nest your panel family into the blank template. Load the new family into your project and place the panel on one of your walls. If you do a fine job on the additional work in the wall hosted family with the location of the panel in reference to the wall, and with the void that cuts the wall, you could have an ideal (graphically speaking) solution with the work you've already done. If you have 2D detail components nested into the family, these will even come along for the ride. Horray! However, the family won't be able to schedule as a wall. You'll have to pick some dumb category like generic model or special equipment. You'd think Revit would at least provide more than one catch all. I'd like something like Finishes in there since not all finishes lack geometry. (Like metal panels - shocking!)

I'd personally go for #3, because we don't need that info to be in a wall schedule. But, then again, that's just me...

[mibzim]

You could also make the corrugated panel as a curtain wall panel and model your stacked wall as a curtain panel. (Stacked walls are coded similarly to curtain walls anyway).

At the end of the day though, unless it is CRITICAL that you show each panel it would be easiest to use a stacked wall as Calvn_Swing suggested in option 1. You could use a model pattern for this that had vertical lines at say 1800 centres to represent each panel in elevation.