Define Stacked Wall Structural Use

[mmiles]

I have many stacked wall assemblies in my project. When I create a structural floor plan (changing the discipline setting) several instances do not display.

This tells me that the instances do not have a parameter setting of bearing, foundation, or shear. But, how can I set this? I see no option within the stacked wall edit menu. and, the walls that make up the assembly have "instance" parameters for structural usage, but not type parameters.

As a work around, so far, I am selecting the walls, changing the type to a basic wall type, setting the structural use, and they changing it back to a stacked wall type. Time consuming, but it works...sort of. The problem with this method is that it is deleting wall sweeps and other hosted objects.

so- if basic wall type usage is an "instance" parameter, how do you define stacked wall structural use? Any thoughts on how some stacked instances show in structural plan, while others of same type do not?

[Andre Carvalho]

If you draw the stacked wall by using the "Structural Wall" command found under the Structural tab, it will be structural by default.

Andre Carvalho

[scowsert]

I've ran into the same problem using curtain walls too. I'd love some advice on it.

fyi... you can run a beam into the wall and Revit will give you a warning "Not a structural wall..." with an option to make it bearing. You might try going that route. I'm sure its possible via the api to flip the magic bit and make it structural. Only I don't have enough knowledge how to do that yet.

[Andre Carvalho]

I've ran into the same problem using curtain walls too. I'd love some advice on it.

fyi... you can run a beam into the wall and Revit will give you a warning "Not a structural wall..." with an option to make it bearing. You might try going that route. I'm sure its possible via the api to flip the magic bit and make it structural. Only I don't have enough knowledge how to do that yet.

I think the solution is the same I posted above.

Andre Carvalho

[mmiles]

I've determined that I can use the tab button to select individual components of the stacked wall assembly and then set the instance parameter for the wall type to bearing. I have done this for all the components of each of the instances where the wallls were not showing up in my structural plan. It was time consuming to do this, but it solved my problem.

I didn't set up the wall types, or place them into the model. At this point, I am playing "clean-up" in the project. I am afraid the "newbie" who started the project really tied our hands together with an incredible number of wall types and stacked wall assemblies.