From the course: Revit: Multifamily Housing

Exterior wall - Revit Tutorial

From the course: Revit: Multifamily Housing

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Exterior wall

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- [Instructor] While this design is going to evolve with doors and windows and other architectural details being added, I want to begin by putting around the exterior all of our exterior walls. In order to accomplish that, the first thing that I want to do I'm going to select on the top of the view cube at what it is that we're drawing. and here you can see the variety of foundations The first wall that we want to put in will be going all the way around the perimeter of our building structure. Now, there's something important to remember, and that's the fact that these walls either step down or step up, depending on how you look at it. Meaning that each one of these walls to the Architecture tab and then select on Wall. Now one of the special things that I would like to do is have siding be on the back wall, and the front of this building. Next, make sure that your base constraint is A - Foundation. click, if you select on Edit Type, and click on the Edit button next to Structure, If we had chosen the interior side, then that would've been the core boundary on the interior side instead. But for this example, what we'll be using will be the core boundary on the exterior side. and it's key to know where exactly the start of our foundation wall is actually at. And the foundation wall is actually right in this location here, and it comes across, and then it stops where it hits this line. So that's where we need to be sitting the structural part of our wall, right there on top of the foundation wall. then start to move over in this direction. Then click once you get to right there. The next thing you need to do is just once on the keyboard, hit the Escape key. For the base constraint to the next wall, it won't be A - Foundation. The next wall we'll be drawing will be for our unit B. So we need to find B - Foundation. Come over here, click, draw across. Once you come up to this line, click, hit the Escape key once, do the same thing again. This'll be a C foundation. Click here, come across, stop, hit the Escape key once, The next thing that we need to do is start to draw in those brick walls We do want the location line to be in a slightly different location for this kind of wall. Just do do where we want the structure to line up on the foundation wall. To accomplish that, we'll come here to the location line, To accomplish that, we'll come here to the location line, and we'll select on the Finish Face of Exterior. That's the far outside edge of this wall that we're putting in. Makes sure the base constraint is D - foundation, come over here. Now we can either start it here or we could start it up here. And knowing some of the changes that we'll be making later on, I plan on actually just starting it up here. I plan on actually just starting it up here. So I'm going to click once, move down in this direction. Notice how this wall fits almost exactly on top of the foundation wall. If for some reason it doesn't fit over the foundation wall, maybe it's going to the outside, all you need to do is hit the space bar to flip that wall to the other side. to flip that wall to the other side. But for right now, this is the way that we want to see it. But for right now, this is the way that we want to see it. So I'll draw that wall straight down, So I'll draw that wall straight down, draw the wall down to this point and click, draw the wall down to this point and click, draw the wall over to here and click. draw the wall over to here and click. Now this portion of the wall actually steps down. So once again, just like we did on the back side, we need to make sure that our base constraint will now be C - foundation. will now be C - foundation. So hit the Escape key once, click, So hit the Escape key once, click, change to C - Foundation, click, come across, change to C - Foundation, click, come across, come over to this line, click, hit the Escape key once. The next one will be B - Foundation. Come across, click, hit the Escape key, and then A - Foundation. Move across, go over to the end, click, zoom back out again. Zooming's all done by just spinning the wheel of the mouse. Come up here to this corner and click, Come up here to this corner and click, and then you can see how these corners begin to clean up on each other. Now if we take a look at what we've drawn so far inside of the 3D view, technically we're already inside of the 3D view. I almost clicked here just to see a 3D view. But since we are actually already inside of the 3D view, you can select over here, right here on the edge of the view cube, right here on the edge of the view cube, click, it'll spin around, and now you can see how the walls are sitting there on the foundation walls. there on the foundation walls. They're also stepping down the way that they're supposed to They're also stepping down the way that they're supposed to for each step in the foundation. for each step in the foundation. Now there is a change that we need to make, and that's the fact each one of these walls is actually not quite up to the elevation it needs to be at. is actually not quite up to the elevation it needs to be at. In fact, each one of these walls needs to go up to In fact, each one of these walls needs to go up to this top level associated with that type of unit that it's currently attached to. that type of unit that it's currently attached to. So what we need to do is click on one of the walls, hold down your Control key hold down your Control key to select on each one of these walls, to select on each one of these walls, and since right now I'm selecting each one of these walls, and since right now I'm selecting each one of these walls, which is part of building A, which is part of building A, for the top constraint, I do not want for the top constraint, I do not want an unconnected height of 20 feet. an unconnected height of 20 feet. I want it to go up to the highest level, I want it to go up to the highest level, which in this case is going to end up being the roof level. which in this case is going to end up being the roof level. So for the top constraint, So for the top constraint, we'll have it go up level A - Roof. we'll have it go up level A - Roof. Select there, just move your cursor out here. Select there, just move your cursor out here. You won't see a massive change, but it has actually moved these walls up to the appropriate height. these walls up to the appropriate height. Next, we need to do that with the next set of walls. Next, we need to do that with the next set of walls. In this case, it'll be this wall and this wall. In this case, it'll be this wall and this wall. Change it from an unconnected height, up to B - Roof. Change it from an unconnected height, up to B - Roof. Do the same thing for these two walls. Do the same thing for these two walls. Change the unconnected height, Change the unconnected height, to be C - Roof. to be C - Roof. Then for these three walls, 'cause we have three walls Then for these three walls, 'cause we have three walls on the exterior side of this unit. on the exterior side of this unit. For the top constraint, we'll make sure that it goes up For the top constraint, we'll make sure that it goes up to level D - Roof. to level D - Roof. Now we have these exterior walls going up Now we have these exterior walls going up to their appropriate elevations. to their appropriate elevations. Then, in our next lesson, we'll start to put in Then, in our next lesson, we'll start to put in the demising wall between each of these units.

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