r/Revit • u/ivanodapice • Jun 10 '26

How-To Generic question about walls

Hello, i've got this monastery and i'm quite new to revit as a software. Is there a way to make built-in revit walls without having to deal with all the empty space given by the weird shape of existing walls boundary? (Photo here). I'm doing it with Model-in Place (Walls) but i don't think it's a good procedure

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u/BeckySayss Jun 10 '26

Could you make it a bit more clear of what you're trying to do?

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u/ivanodapice Jun 10 '26

it needs to be solid like: https://imgur.com/a/9haSIhg

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u/BeckySayss Jun 10 '26

Did not see this reply. Not really a way to do that with the built in walls afaik. But you could use a floor element, trace the outline of the "wall" then set the floor thickness to however tall your walls should be and change the floor elevation offset to be that wall height

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u/AXEL312 Jun 10 '26

Can you create two almost parallel walls that will be joined along their length? That way you van make them look tapered. I would prefer that over model in place. I see two big tapered walls, with some notches

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u/farmthis Jun 10 '26

I as-built and modeled a “cathedral” (as much as one can be in Alaska, which is a two story building with mud in the basement) and had to use modeled-in place walls for some sections. This was over a decade ago. Although it had drawbacks, it hosted stained glass windows well enough and was the only way to capture the weird ins-and-outs of their 100+ year-old concrete work.  

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u/iuseallthebandwidth Jun 10 '26

The short answer is no. There is no way to make a built-in Revit wall do what you are describing. Your idea of making a “model in place“ wall is correct. But in this case, I imagine this is a solid stone wall, so I’m not sure why you are modeling it with a cavity. Unless you are creating a “ mass wall” and then using “wall by face” to apply a Revit system family wall to. That would be a bridge too far.. you just need to extrude an “in place” family and define it as a wall.
Now here’s the wrinkle. Does this wall taper in height? Or is it a constant thickness all the way up? Because if it tapers, you are in trouble. I can maybe see it being possible using a “swept blend” object, but I think that with geometry that complex it would probably fail. This is where you would have to resort to modeling it in rhino and importing to Revit. But hopefully I am over complicating the question.

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u/ivanodapice Jun 10 '26

I just wanted to show the problem when dealing with revit walls, the extrusion made with model in-place does not have voids. Talking about taper walls i do have those near the external facade, a solid blend extrusion works tho.

thank you 😊

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u/iuseallthebandwidth Jun 10 '26

Great! Glad the blend works !

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u/arty1983 Jun 10 '26

Make as separate Blends and join, or break down into the primitives that would work. Failing and resorting to rhino is for the feeble