From the course: Revit: Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

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Apply a new finish to a wall using join geometry.

Apply a new finish to a wall using join geometry.

From the course: Revit: Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

Apply a new finish to a wall using join geometry.

- [Instructor] I had a client come to me recently and ask what was the best way that I recommended to apply a new finish to an existing building? So they had a project where they were skinning the building with some new Dryvit material, in most cases, and wanted to know what I thought was a good way to do that in Revit, and they were starting, of course, with an existing Revit model. If you run into that similar situation and you've got an existing model, then I think the best approach is to actually create a really thin wall that represents just the new finish, and apply that, literally, to the exterior of the model. So let me go ahead and walk through that process with you here, so I've got this existing model. And you know, let's say that we're in that same situation. You know, we've got this brick facade right now, but the client wants to skin it with something new. They want to add some stucco or some Dryvit or something else to modernize the look of the building. So the first…

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