Following on from an earlier post about joining stairs and floors, I just wanted to clarify what happens when you try to join Stairs and Walls in section . . . .
We saw previously that Revit does have some limited capability to join stairs and floors at the base of a stair – but it has many limitations.
Joining a Wall and a Floor
All good Revit users would know that if a floor and a wall are of the same material, and they have coincident or overlapping edges, they can be “joined” in the model. This is not just a graphic tool that is done per view – it affects the model in potentially all views, including material quantity schedules. If an overlapping wall and floor are joined, the volume of material that was previously counted twice is corrected after the join so it is counted once.
Join Geometry |
Select floor and wall to join |
Providing that the elements are of the same material, the line between the floor and wall disappears. In this example, the ‘Level’…