I finally got a handle on those tricky angled wall sections in Revit

I was working on a set of shop drawings for a custom metal stair last week, and the angled wall it landed against was giving me fits. The architect's model had it at 15 degrees, and my 2D details kept coming out wrong. I tried rotating the view, but the dimensions were still off. Out of ideas, I went into the wall's type properties and changed the 'Wrapping at Inserts' setting to 'Exterior' instead of 'None'. It was a total guess, but it worked. The wall's finish layer now correctly showed the cut at the angle in my section view, and all my callouts lined up. I must have wasted two hours before that little switch fixed everything. Has anyone else found a weird property setting that solved a big drafting headache?

4 comments

4 Comments

jadej502mo ago

Changing the 'Wrapping at Inserts' setting is one of those things I always ignored. But hearing how it fixed your angled wall section, maybe I should actually pay attention to those weird property menus.

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kim_ramirez32mo ago

But is it really that big of a deal?

caseythompson23h ago

Flip that setting on and see what it does for your corners. It fixed my weird angled wall issue right away. Sometimes those menu options actually do something useful.

morgan_king362mo ago

Honestly that setting caused me more problems than it solved. I had it on for a wall with a window and it made the brick finish wrap in this weird, unrealistic way around the frame. I mean, real brick doesn't do that. I turned it off and the drawing looked way more correct. Sometimes those menus are weird for a reason, maybe to stop us from making things look fake. I just leave it alone now.