I was working on some interesting curved Retaining Walls in Revit the other day, and needed the top of the wall to slope and match the ground contours. When your walls are straight, you have the option to Edit the Profile by going into Sketch Mode and Editing the profile however you wish. However if your wall is Curved, the Edit Profile button is Greyed out and you cannot Edit the profile of your wall. So what do you do?!
There are a few different ways to create a sloped profile of a Curved Wall in Revit, but here are two of my favourites.
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Edit Profile of curved wall in Revit – Void Cut Method
As you can see below we have a Curved Retaining Wall which is stepped at the top, but we would like it to have a smooth slope.
The first thing we need to do is create an In-place Void component, then use that component to “cut-away” the tops of the retaining walls.
First go to a 3D view, and create an In-Place model component by navigating to the Structure Tab and…