I'm having trouble coping

[pdickman]

I can't get all of the corners to clean up, 2 will and 2 won't. I think the basis of the problem is that the higher part of the coping is not always on the outside of the wall and I can't manage to flip across the correct axis. Any help?

thanks

[01chang]

Try this Revit file. See whether this is what you want.
You can use solid sweep to do this.

[Gigmahabir]

It being many months later I hope you've had luck coping since! Wall Sweeps can be a finnicky tool to use in order to get what you want. But I rather prefer them than doing a solid sweep in order to stick to the BIM concept more closely, for one you can schedule your Wall Sweeps to have a list of family and type, length and so forth.

I downloaded your .rvt and spent a few minutes looking through all the Wall Sweep settings in your metal coping. Everything checked out fine there. So the second thing I did in resolving corners is to delete all the copings and begin anew.

Then:
- Went to a 3D view and orbited until I was positioned to see, from a distance, the inside face of the walls where they met at a corner. To illustrate, I've attached some pictures. From this vantage point, I selected the Wall Sweep tool and then ran the cursor vertically up the wall from a midway point to the top of the wall where the coping would eventually sit. What you'll notice as you do this is that the end conditions of the coping will change, going through various options. You simply have to stop when the end condition you want is being displayed.

Sometimes it helps to just place the coping on the wall, then select it and move it, using your arrow keys, vertically up and down the wall until the end conditions change to the one you want, or maybe more accurately, Revit realizes they should join!

-Once this corner was joined properly I did the same for the other three corners, rotating the view until I was able to see the inside face of the walls where they met at a corner.

This is a tricky tool to use properly, but once you understand it, it becomes less of an adventure through dark woods.

Goodluck!