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Manipulating sloped and slanted wall inserts and sweeps

Manipulating sloped and slanted wall inserts and sweeps

From the course: Revit: Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

Manipulating sloped and slanted wall inserts and sweeps

- [Instructor] In this video, I want to give you some little nuance behavior between slanted and tapered walls. So these are features that allow you to slope walls along different angles, and when you do that, you've got new behaviors that become available for your inserts, your doors and your windows for your sweeps. And there's also a few little gotchas if you're using stacked walls. So I've kind of peppered all of those features into this tiny little exercise file. And let's just go ahead and get started here. So I'm going to zoom in, and I'm going to take this wall here in the exterior. And I should point out that this is a stacked wall, okay? And I'm going to scroll down here on the Properties palette. And for the cross section, I'm going to change it from vertical to slanted. And then an angle property becomes available and you can put in an angle. Now if you put in a positive angle, it tends to slope in toward the building. And if you do a negative angle, it tends to slope away…

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