Exercise duration: ~20 minutes

Embed Walls
In this exercise you will open an existing project
and embed new walls into an existing wall to
create a panel around the windows.

A new wall type needs to be created for the

panel wall and reveals need to be placed, with
their type modified, to frame the embedded
walls top, middle and bottom.

Learning objectives:

• Create wall types

• Embed walls
• Use wall sweeps and reveals

The finished project

Embedded walls and reveals placed in existing walls

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 Location of embedded walls in plan

Location of embedded walls and reveals in elevation

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1. Open the project Embed Walls.rvt.

Figure 1. Opening the Revit project file

2. [PLACE THE REVEALS]

Start the Wall: Reveal tool from the

Architecture ribbon tab, as shown in
Figure 2.

Edit the type properties of the reveal

and change the profile to Reveal-Brick
Course: 3 Bricks.

Click OK to save the changes and place

three reveals on the end elevation wall.

The reveals should be positioned as per

the dimensions in the elevation above. Figure 2. The Wall: Reveal tool on the
Architecture ribbon tab

They should all Offset from Wall by 1

inch.

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3. [CREATE THE EMBEDDED WALLS]

Open the Floor 2 plan view.

Figure 3. Opening the Floor 2 plan view

4. Create a new wall from the Architecture

ribbon tab.

Select the Stone on CMU wall type and

edit its type properties.

Figure 4. The Properties palette displaying

the Stone on CMU wall type

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5. Duplicate this wall type and name it
Vertical Cladding.

Edit the wall structure and change

Layer 1 material to Cladding, Vertical
Ribbed.

Click OK to save the changes and create

three wall lengths as per the
dimensions in the plan above. Use
reference planes or detail lines to help
position the walls if necessary.

Figure 4. Duplicating the wall type

6. The walls should have Floor 2 as their

base constraint and Roof as their top
constraint.

Use the Align tool in either the

elevation or 3D view to align the top
and bottom offset to the wall reveals.

Figure 6. Setting the wall constraints

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7. Use the Cut Geometry tool to embed
the new Vertical Cladding walls into the
existing wall.

Use the Join Geometry tool to join the

Vertical Cladding walls to the existing
wall to remove the end edges in the
plan view.
Figure 7. The Cut Geometry and Join
Geometry tools on the ribbon
Select the middle reveal and use
Add/Remove Walls to add the panel
walls to the reveal object.

8. End of exercise.

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