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cboersen

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I am looking for some best practice advice on walls and floors.

For example: I have a block wall that goes thru the roof and forms a parapet.  It also has drywall on it in some places and of different heights depending on what room is adacent to it.  With Revit I could make 5 or 6 different block walls this diffferent heights of drywall on each OR is it better to just run the block wall plain and the put an additional furring "wall" against it as needed?  To me it seems better to do it the second way with is simpler to deal with, wall wise, and is much more like actual construction but it seams to be contratry to how Revit would sugest doing things.  What is best?

Likewise, with a precast concrete floor.  As the plank goes thru several rooms the plank structure is identicle but the floor finishes change.  Again I could make several different precast floors with different finishes but to me is seams better to run the whole precast floor and then add an addittional "floor" for the finish.  Again - which is the best way to go?

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For the walls, we model the wall type full height then use edit cut profile in wall sections to remove the drywall where it is not.  NOTE:  This will not take off correctly if you are doing that.

You can use one wall type basically with the drywall layer unlocked and one wall per floor if you need quantities.  Then in section, adjust the drywall height. 

For floors, we like to keep applied floor finishes seperate from structure, so we use thin floors that are only the finish and are in a seperate workset.

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mbsteve

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I've tried both ways and prefer to keep the main wall, separate and add additional walls inside as needed because of the variance of the interior conditions. Some might be tile or drywall or wood siding etc.

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