Wall Ratings / Wall Types

[mcuevas]

Hi everyone, I work in a firm that does primarily healthcare. In our cd's we use numerous wall types/wall ratings. I know you can assign a hatch for walls when they are cut in plan, but I don't think I could create the variety of wall types that I need. We use anywhere from 5 -12 different wall types on projects. The only thing I could think of as a work around is using a repeating detail component and drafting it on the views. If anyone else out there does anything similar I would appreciate any suggestions....Thanks...

[Scott D Davis]

Yet another reason to have the ability to place detail components and repeating detail components into the wall properties.

[cliff collins]

Anybody willing to share their method for setting up Partition Types in a set of Condocs? We have cut sections thru all of the various wall types,
placed the views on our sheet(s).

I guess the question is, where should the walls themselves reside? They are obviously in the project model---but we don't want all of those section marks in the views. We would like to create a library of wall types to use
for "office standards" so all users can access them.

Any ides/suggestions appreciated.

Cliff Collins

[Scott D Davis]

Create a Phase, called Legend or something like that, and create items not normally shown in normal views there.

[PeterJ]

Use a management phase at the beginning prior to Site, Enabling works, Construction Phase A opr whatever your phases are and in that management phase draw all your walls, windows and doors and then reference those items for your elevations, plans and so on. The beauty of this is that you can have it all set up in your template ready to go, if your buildings are that similar, and if you move a window/door/wall in the model your refenced views in windows schedules or what have you all remain constant.

[jbalding48677]

Maybe I am not understanding the issue, but our wall type details are drafting views that represent the details of each wall type.

[sbrown]

I don't use anything "live" for my partition types. I have a sheet a10.0 within one of my " detail projects" projects that contain drafting views of details for diff. common details. On my partition type detail project i have drafting views of all the typically used wall constructions. I then copy these details into my current project and when I place my section mark, just check the ref. option and select the proper section. This lets me work quicker and utilize other workers not up to speed on revit to create details in a sep project that will be usefull to every project. Note that you can place your most common types in your project template and allready on a sheet and ready to ref.

[cliff collins]

Scott and everyone:

Thanks for the suggestions. I think I like the "separate project" approach, with referencing to the current project. It's hard to dig this kind of stuff out of the documentation, or even Cyril Verley's books.

I personally like to use the "live" method --- just draw a wall, cut a section
and you have it---without doing a lot of "detail component" drafting--more of a "purist" modeling idea.

Cliff Collins

[Wes Macaulay]

We're not there yet -- that sort of thing requires both hardware and software that are a few notches up from Revit. Rules-based modellers like Cadworks and Vertex BD are too rigid for most architects anyway, and can't be used on large projects.

Modelling individual studs is still not a practical idea for all but the smallest projects.

[Allen Lacy]

I like the "live" method too. The only drawback to this is if you move the wall or partition that you selected to become you wall type. Also, you need to "hide annotation" at each instance, unless you want to see them ( I usually don't).