From the course: Revit 2018: Essential Training for Architecture (Metric)
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Understanding stacked walls - Revit Architecture Tutorial
From the course: Revit 2018: Essential Training for Architecture (Metric)
Understanding stacked walls
- [Instructor] In this video, we're going to continue our look at wall families by talking about the stacked wall family. What I want to start off by doing is just remind you that walls are system families. So if you watched the previous video we discussed that and we started with basic walls in the previous video. And as you recall, basic walls are just your standard layered construction, so you have one or more layers of material that are all sandwiched together. The basic wall would look the same whether you slice through it in plane or in section, it would show the same layered assembly. Now a stacked wall, the subject of this video, is a little bit more complex because it can vary along its height. And the way that it does that is by quite literally stacking two or more basic walls on top of one another. And then, of course, our third wall system family is the curtain wall, and a curtain wall can express a complex grit pattern within its overall structure. And that'll be the…
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