Tapered Masonry Peirs - Will the wall slant or just the stone layer?

[3dway]

I have a design upcoming where the corners have a masonry peir which tapers about 6" over about one and a half storeys on the design drawings. We may not taper this much really, but that's how it shows on the concept. It may end up being cultured stone on a tapered substrate. It may end up being corbelled masonry.

Regardless of what it ends up being, if I do a mass and then do a wall by face for that mass, will the whole wall be tapered including the stud, or just the masonry layer on the outside?

How do you control this?

[Scott Womack]

I have a design upcoming where the corners have a masonry peir which tapers about 6" over about one and a half storeys on the design drawings. We may not taper this much really, but that's how it shows on the concept. It may end up being cultured stone on a tapered substrate. It may end up being corbelled masonry.

Regardless of what it ends up being, if I do a mass and then do a wall by face for that mass, will the whole wall be tapered including the stud, or just the masonry layer on the outside?

How do you control this?

If you want the entire wall to "slope" then using a mass and the wall by face is the only way you'll get it to work. If you want the "stud" to stay vertical, then using a wall sweep, or sweeps is the way to go. Doing in this manner allows a little more "automation" that the massing route. You'll need a mass for each column the other way, either by group, etc.

[3dway]

So the whole masonry layer is a wall sweep?

Ingenious!

Another day another Revit Trick.

[Scott Womack]

[quote=3dway;913056]So the whole masonry layer is a wall sweep?quote]

Yes, you just have to make it as n applied sweep, or you can make it as part of the wall itself. Personally, I'd make it an integral sweep inside of that wall style itself. That way, if you adjust the profile, then theose walls adjust automatically.