Disallow Join

I recently ran into an issue where we had a interior stud wall that butts up to a Curtain wall or a Store Front wall.

Similar to this:

Here you'll see a Stud wall butts up to the corner of a storefront wall at the corner mullion.

As you can see here the Stud wall want to join the Curtain wall at the location Line. In this case the Stud wall overlaps onto the corner Mullion of the curtain wall.

You cant drag the point away from the corner as it will join the Curtain wall.

Here is the solution to this problem.

If you pick the stud wall and right click right on the end control grip.... like so.....

The right click dialog box will pop up with the Option to Disallow Join. Select this and it will then allow you to drag the end grip away from the wall without it automatically joining the wall.

NOTE: Please note that you have to Right Click directly on the end grip, you wont get the same Right Click options if you just Right Click on the wall itself.

Curtain Wall in a Wall

Just a quick tip on inserting a Curtain Wall into a Regular Wall.

When embedding one wall type into another wall you can use the Cut Geometry tool to easily cut one wall out of the other wall.

Here's how.....

In plan view draw the wall you want to embedded on top of your Host wall (it's not really a host though!). In this case I have drawn a Curtain Wall on top of a Masonry Wall.

You will receive a Warning stating that the highlighted walls overlap. Revit then suggests you use the Cut Geometry to embed one wall into the other.

Note that if you do this with a Storefront type wall it will automatically cut out the Host wall.

Flip to a 3D view or a Elevation then select the Cut Geometry tool.

Pick the Host wall then the wall to cut with...

Then your done.....