Create and edit wall types

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in this video, you'll learn how to create an edit basic wall types

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and more specifically,

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you'll create a brick on metal stud wall

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type and define the layer materials and thicknesses.

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You'll then see how to further customize wall types and use them in a project.

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In this exercise file

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I have several walls created and each one is a different basic wall type.

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When you select a wall,

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you can see the type in the type selector

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and you can expand the type selector and change the wall type.

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And you can also click edit type

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to open the type properties dialog.

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And here you can see all of the type parameters that define

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the wall type.

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To create a new wall type. You need to duplicate an existing wall type.

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So for this example we'll create a brick on metal stud

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wall type so we can duplicate the brick on cmu type.

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So with that type selected, I'll click duplicate

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and then for the name, I'll enter brick on the exterior dash brick on metal stud

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and then click. Ok.

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And now I can adjust any of these type parameters to define

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the new wall type.

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We'll start here with the structure

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and you can click edit next to structure to open the edit assembly dialogue.

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And this is where you can define all of the layers that

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make up the wall type

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in this table here, you can see the various layers

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and as you start at the top, this is the exterior side.

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You can see that indicated here, above the table

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and then at the bottom that's the interior side.

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So as you move down the list, you're moving from the exterior to the interior side.

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We'll start by adjusting the structure of the wall

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and the structure is defined within the core boundary layers.

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So you can see that there are two core boundary layers and those cannot be modified.

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And inside of that is the structure of the wall.

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To get a better view of that,

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we can click preview at the bottom of the dialog and that will open a preview window.

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And as I zoom in, you can see

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two green lines and those green lines represent the core boundary layers.

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And so within that is our structure

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right here.

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So right now we're we duplicated the cmu type and

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so that's why concrete masonry units is listed here.

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But we can click in the material field and then

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click the more button to open the material browser.

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And we can browse through the entire list here.

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Or we can begin typing in the search field to filter the list.

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So as I type metal

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stud, you can see the list is filtered and now I see the metal stud layer material.

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So I'll select that and then click OK.

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And now it updates here in my my layer, my structural layer.

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I'll also change the thickness to six inches

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by typing zero space six and pressing enter

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and now you can see in the preview here that gets a little bit smaller

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since this is the structural layer,

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we'll leave this selected to be the structural material.

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And then, well, we do not want it to be a variable thickness will leave variable D.

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Selected.

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So now we have our structural layer defined and

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now we can continue on really however we want.

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So I'll start here on the exterior side and we'll work our way down.

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Now

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one thing that we kind of

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went through pretty quickly but our function there as I expand that drop down,

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you can see there are multiple options

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for the function

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and you can also see a number inside of square brackets and that number

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indicates the priority level that rev it will use when walls are connected.

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So in other words, how rev it is going to try to connect up the layers

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in the various wall types that are connected to each other.

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One is the highest priority,

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whereas five is the lowest priority.

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And membrane layers do not have a priority level.

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They typically have a zero thickness.

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Therefore you're not really concerned about how they're going to connect up.

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So for our brick exterior side of the wall here, we'll leave that set to finish one.

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And then for layer number two,

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this is our thermal air layer and we have a three inch thick air gap here.

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So we'll leave that set as is

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And for layer number three, we can change that to a membrane layer

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and we'll change it to an air infiltration

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barrier by clicking in the material field and

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clicking the more button and then we can search for air infiltration and once again,

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as you type the list will be filtered and then

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you can quickly select that material and click OK?

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And we'll change it to a zero thickness.

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And then for layer # four will change the function to substrate

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and we'll change it to a plywood sheathing.

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Once again, simply type here to quickly filter your list of materials.

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And then we'll change the thickness

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to 3/4 of an inch.

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And

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then we'll change the layer,

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number eight will change that to a membrane layer as well

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and will change this material.

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Alright.

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So as you can see there, you can quickly adjust the function and the material

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as well as your thickness.

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And then we'll finish here or finish to for the interior side.

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We'll leave that set to gypsum wallboard there.

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Okay, a couple more things here.

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You can choose whether or not that layer is

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going to wrap and then below the table here,

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you can control the default wrapping.

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So as I zoom out here, you can see a preview.

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And so at inserts, you can set that to do not wrap or the exterior interior or both.

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And then as well as that ends.

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So for example, if I change that to exterior,

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you can see the preview update here and see how those are wrapping.

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I'll change that back to none.

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Additionally, you can always select a layer. You can add new layers,

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insert a new layer, can

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modify that as needed. You can delete a layer and then you can move layers up or down

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that way. You can define

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the wall types to meet the needs of your project.

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So I'll click OK.

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And then click OK again and we have now created a new wall type.

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Additionally,

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you can get even more complex than just simply adding

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layers and you can also add sweeps and reveals.

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So I'll select this wall on the end and click edit type.

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And then once again I'll click edit next to structure

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and at the bottom.

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So you can see here the modified vertical structure area,

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you can see that all these tools are unavailable.

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But when I change this view to the preview to a section

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view now you can see all of these tools become available.

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When I click sweeps,

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it opens up a wall sweeps dialogue and you can

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see here that sweeps have been added to this wall type

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and there are various options that you have here to customize those sweeps.

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Similarly, I'll click reveals.

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That opens up the reveals dialogue and you can add reveals as well.

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So you can add a profile, control the distance,

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the orientation and various options there to

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get those placed exactly where you want it

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also. You can control these layers here

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and

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you can move the top and bottom of the walls. You can move those up or down.

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You can also unlock certain layers so that you can

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move them independent of the rest of the wall.

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So for example when I click modify and then

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zoom in and select the this side right here,

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you can see the outer boundary,

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there's now a padlock icon and when I click that padlock to unlock it,

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it can now be moved independently. So I'll show you what I mean by that.

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When I click OK to close each of these dialogues and then we open up

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the west elevation view here and zoom in on that wall.

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When I select that wall, you can see that there are now two shape handles

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and I can use that outer one

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to control that layer independent of the other ones.

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So typically there's just one at the bottom of the wall.

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But when you unlock a layer there becomes too.

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And let me open up the type properties dialog.

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And then the edit assembly dialog one more time

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and I'll just make a couple more notes here.

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When you click modify, that's when you can select a layer to unlock it,

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be aware that you can only unlock layers that are right next to each other.

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If you try to unlock layers that are not right next to each other or adjacent.

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You'll get this error right here.

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So you can go ahead and click close and so if you needed to,

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let's say you wanted to adjust the exterior and the interior,

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what you could do is actually unlock some of these

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these layers that are inside the wall.

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So instead of trying to unlock the exterior and the interior,

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you could do these internal layers here.

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So just a couple of quick notes there to help you

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get the wall type defined exactly like you wanted to.