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Welcome to the third part in a series of 5 articles on Revit’s Massing Editor and Building Maker. In this article we look at adding wall elements to our office block model that we developed in the proceeding articles.

If you haven’t read the previous articles in this series, you will really need to read and work through Part 1 and Part 2, in order to have a model that we can take forward in this tutorial.

• So to start with load the model that you ended up with upon the completion of Part 2. Your screen should look like this:

If you are only seeing the floor elements and not the mass elements you need to turn on the Show Mass button at the top of the screen

OK. So we have some mass elements that represent the body of the office block. We added some levels to define the floor and roof levels that we want. We then created Floor Area Faces that were then used to host Floor Elements.

The Element types  that we can add to our basic Mass Instances are:

• Wall

• Floor

• Curtain System

• Roof

The controls for adding these systems are located on the Massing menu on the Design Bar.

Adding Wall elements is a much simpler process than adding Floor elements. If you remember, to add Floor Elements we first had to add Floor Area Faces and THEN add the Floor Elements to those. With Walls, you can just go right ahead and add them directly to the individual faces of the mass instances.

• So go ahead and select Wall by Face

• Now before you go ahead and start adding the Wall Elements, select the Wall type you wish to add from the drop down list. I have selected a cavity rain screen wall type

• One last step before we add the Wall Elements: We need to change the location line position from Finish Face: Exterior to Finish Face: Interior.

This will ensure that when we add the Wall Elements, the interior face of the Wall Element is placed onto the plane of the faces we select. Ie We want the faces of our Mass Instances to represent the interior walls of the office block- and consequently we want each wall element to be on the ‘outside’ of these faces.

•  Now you have chosen the type of wall you wish to add and chosen how the wall element will relate to the faces we choose, move your cursor over the main body of the office block and notice how the various faces of the mass instances are highlighted. Go ahead and select the large face (nearest the screen) of the main body of the office block.

Great! We’ve added a wall to the side of our office block.

• Using the spin command, rotate your model and add Wall Elements to the remainder of the main body of the office block. Do not apply any walls to the circular tower- we are going to reserve that for the next tutorial where we will look at applying Curtain Systems.

Once you added the walls your model should look something like this….

I hope you found this article interesting and useful. As always on Revit Zone, if you have any feedback or comments on anything you read here, please let me know.

Proceed to Part 4