Explore the process of creating walls and private offices in a building design using Revit. Learn how to use the architecture and wall tools, the mirror pick axis tool, and understand how to manage dimensions and constraints within your model.
Key Insights
- The process of wall creation in Revit involves dividing up the space between gridlines, starting with a clean space where there are no obstructions. The architecture and wall tools are then used to place a wall down the middle.
- The use of temporary dimensions is highlighted, including making them permanent and using them to create perfectly divided bays. However, not all dimensions are kept within the model, and understanding how to delete dimensions and manage constraints is essential.
- The mirror pick axis tool is used to mirror the wall into other bays between gridlines, demonstrating an efficient way to replicate walls across a design. Adjustments may be necessary if walls move or change type.
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To add in the rest of our walls, we're going to start with dividing up these three bays so that we have a total of six private offices on this side of the building. Now to do that, I'm going to start with, say, the space between grid lines two and three, because it's pretty clean and there isn't really anything to get in the way to mess this up for us. So what I'll do is I'll go to Architecture and Wall, and what I want to do is I want to put a wall down the middle here.
And, you know, I don't know exactly where that midpoint is going to be, but if I draw a wall across, you can see that I will get a temporary dimension. And what's great is I could use that temporary dimension by making it permanent, and then I'll hit escape twice to get out of the wall command. And if I simply go to that dimension, hit EQ, then it'll create a perfectly divided up bay for us here.
This is not necessarily a dimension that I want to keep within the model. If I were to go in and say, let's get rid of that and select it and then hit the delete key, I'm going to get an error. And essentially what Revit's telling me is that, hey, you've created a dimension that has constraints.
What do you want to do with that dimension? Do you want to delete it and remove the constraints or do you want to delete it and maintain the constraints? In this case, if you hit okay, that will keep the constraints, but delete the dimension. If you hit unconstrained, that will delete the dimension and remove the constraints. For this project, we're going to want to hit unconstrained so that we don't run into any future issues with when these walls move around or if they change type and it needs to adjust slightly.
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The next step here is we're going to use the Mirror Pick Axis tool to mirror this wall into the bay between grid lines one and two and into the bay between grid lines three and four. If I were to go in and say pick this wall here, using that Modify tab, I can go ahead and I can select Mirror Pick Axis and then simply select grid line two. And if I start that over again, pick the wall between two and three, Mirror Pick Axis, select grid line three, and then now you can see I've got all the walls in place.
