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Anyone know why my wall footings breaks when an opening extends down to the bottom of the host wall. I tried both check and unchecked for the type parameter. Always breaks.
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This has happened to me and the wall footing will jump to the top of the opening thinking that the wall is simply stepping up. To keep the footing from breaking I extended the opening to just above the bottom of the wall.
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Thanks for the response.
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ok . . . I'm having this same problem. I copy/monitored the architect's walls into my structural model. Of course the door openings came with the walls and are also monitored. the sill elevation for the door openings is at 0'-0" (same as FFE). And my wall footings are breaking at either side of the door opening IN SPITE of having the appropriate type parameter checked. And the former solution DOES WORK, but this is a large building with loads of doors. Surely there's a better solution. What causes this?
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It's a copy / monitor issue with the openings. I usually uncheck the opening option in the copy / monitor dialog...then place my own openings. I stop monitoring, place my openings, then continue monitoring my walls to theirs...this way Revit will track their openings to my wall and if they move a door I get notified. The issue is with how Revit is generating the openings that get created during the copy / monitor command. Revit generates the copied opening using the wall opening command insead of using the door command. To test this, draw a wall and place a "door" in revit strucure. Then, on the same wall, draw an opening using the wall opening command. Then add your footing and you should get a result similar to what you are describing.
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THANK YOU! That was brilliant! I'm going to have a TON of work to do. 
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Glad I could help you out. At least now you know for the future to avoid rework. We'll just call it a Revit "feature" Great program, just has its little quirks about it.
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ok, so I can delete the existing opening (brought in with copy/monitor) and then insert my own door opening (which is a cool family that I created with lintel that I can tag and schedule). Will that opening be monitored so that if they move theirs (and they will), I'll be notified? Or, do I have to turn monitoring off for the wall, then delete their wall opening, then insert mine, and THEN turn monitoring back on for the wall? Is that what you're saying?
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I would make a test file for this so you can get a process written down. I have seen it not work when I have stopped the monitor process after the openings are placed as well as before. Somedays it seems to be a crap shoot.
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I have a question about Walls, not sure if this is a good place to ask but I dont know where to start. Im trying to draw two 8" concrete walls on the same grid line but with an inch gap. For some reason Revit auto conects the two but I don't need them connected to eachother! Is there a setting to turn this off? Thanks.
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If you don't want the autojoin, you can turn it off by right clicking on the walls grip and picking dissallow join from the shortcut menu. Other wise, you can split the wall with a gap.
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I have a question about Walls, not sure if this is a good place to ask but I dont know where to start. Im trying to draw two 8" concrete walls on the same grid line but with an inch gap. For some reason Revit auto conects the two but I don't need them connected to eachother! Is there a setting to turn this off? Thanks.
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Right click on the end of the wall and turn off wall join function.
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Good Child It worked on Revit Arch 2009... But it doesn't seem to work on 2010!
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WWHUB & GOODCHILD Thanks I figured it out!
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