STRETCHING WALL LAYERS - FOOTING

[captainbunsaver]

I did a search on this and came close, but not quite:

I have a wall with a continuous footing at the bottom. The wall is cmu with eifs. If I make the eifs portion unlocked, I can vary its bottom location without incident until I get to a point equal to the depth of the footing. Then Revit creates a new footing (the two actually are one object) I have one for each part of the wall, with the second attached to the raised eifs layer!
How do I get the second footing to go away?

TC

[DoTheBIM]

That's an interesting result. While I don't have an answer, why would you want your eifs wall covering to go past the footer?

[captainbunsaver]

I want the eifs to be above the footer. It's when I try to raise the eifs "layer" that the new footer suddenly appears!
Interesting, yes?

TC

[dhurtubise]

Thats onw to send to support :-)

[DoTheBIM]

Ah yes I see. Either up or down more than the depth of the footer it gets duplicated. Definately send to support.

[kgoff]

I have the same problem; just wondering if any magical solutions have appeared in the last year...?

[patricks]

I would probably just do a separate foundation wall in that case... or use a stacked wall, if you're brave. :p

Another issue you have when extending layers is that it makes the plan representation of the wall layers not clean up correctly at corners, unless you miter the corners. This is fine if the walls on both sides of the corner are the same type, but is a problem if you have a different wall type on each side of the corner. Using a separate foundation wall would let you avoid having to adjust wall layers, and avoid the plan view graphics problems associated with it.

[kgoff]

Thanks - I will make a separate foundation wall. That's three walls per facade now, eesh. Re: stacked walls - I did start that way and then broke them up. Not so much "brave" as "foolish." :-D