Wall Join Toggle

[dustin.fike]

I am a little new to revit. I have searched through the other threads for wall joins and it seems that others are having problems with multiple walls cleaning up or more complex situations. Mine situation is a little simpler, but still frustrating. I have two walls that meet at 90 degrees. Both walls are the same type, same workset, same design option, same phase. Their endpoints meet. I even tried dragging the endpoints so that the walls cross eachother. They will not join.

I have been successful at getting the walls to join using the following method: I "disallow join" on the end of both walls. I then immediately "allow join" on both walls. (without moving grips or doing anything other than changing the join option) After this they clean up just fine.

That would be fine if it was an isolated instance. However, the problem persists many, many places in the model. Revit has to stop and think every time I tell it to allow or disallow joins and it would take countless hours to go through and fix every corner. Is there a faster way to fix this?

I have attached an image of the condition before it is fixed (wall-unjoin.jpg), after it is fixed (wall-join.jpg) and what it looks like when I drag the ends so that the walls cross (wall-cross.jpg). Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[cliff collins]

Check to see if the walls are the same heights, if they are constrained to the same levels,
and if the "core boundaries" of each wall is set correctly. ( at interior and exterior extreme
sides of the wall in "edit structure" mode.

We have gone through a lot of frustration with wall joins---one trick is to grip edit/pull
the walls apart, use "disjoin" and "detach" commands to "loosen" up the walls, and get them work to work independently of each other. Then use "trim" command for the two most
"primary" walls. Then use "align" command to "sneak" the other walls up to the trimmed
ones.

As a last resort you can use "edit cut profile" for those situations which just refuse to join properly.

Hope this helps.

Cheers........