Intersecting Walls not cleaning up?

[Jason]

I have just started using 6.1. I drew a wall thro another and the intersection didn't clean up. I do not remember having this problem with 5.1. How do correct this setting?

Jason

[Scott D Davis]

split one of the walls at the intersection.

[Jason]

Scott, is that the only way? I thought it cleans up the intersection itself. I want to be able to move the whole wall for design refinement. In your scenerio, I would have to one wall and align the other to it. I guess I could group the walls.

J

[beegee]

Hi Jason,

Lock-align one piece of wall to the other. It will move automatically with the first then.

[Jason]

Hi Beegee,

How do you do lock-align?

I thank you in advance.

Jason

[beegee]

After you use the align tool, a blue open padlock appears. Click to lock it and you're done.

[Scott D Davis]

You are correct that wall clean-ups occur automatically. But Revit alos makes you think as you are building real walls. You would never have one wall pass through another. One wall might be continuous, while the 'intersecting' wall will stop and start at the face of the continuous wall. This is why splitting the wall makes the walls clean up. It has been this way in Revit since r1.0.

Beegee's recommendation to align-lock them is the best way to make the two parts move together. The align and lock method works for many situations, too. You could have two separate walls across the plan from each other, and they could be locked together.

Click the Align tool, then pick the face or core of the wall you want to align to, then click the corresponding wall face or core of the other wall. The walls will 'snap' to alignment, and the blue lock symbol will appear. Click the lock symbol to 'close' the lock.

[stefan.80609]

hi scott

have the following problem:
draw a wall on top (less thick than the other wall underneath) and this "top" walls won' t join.

what to do?

thanks

stefan

[Nic M.]

Can you post an example?
Did you use the join geometry button?
It does join in my try