Wall layout, design, and editing with Revit - Trim and extend walls

Tutorial resources

These downloadable resources will be used to complete this tutorial:

W-Arch_Wall-Trim-Tools_RVT2021.rvt

Step-by-step guide

Trim and Extend walls to form a corner, extend a single wall to another, or trim and extend multiple walls.

Open the file W-Arch_Wall-Trim-Tools_RVT2021.rvt. It opens in the Level 1 plan view.
In the Modify tab > Modify panel, click Trim/Extend to Corner.

In the Revit interface, in the Modify tab, Modify panel, Trim/Extend to Corner selected, and in the view, the Level 1 plan for this example.

Click the horizontal wall on the side you want to keep. Then, select the vertical wall.

On the floor plan, the horizontal wall selected, and the vertical wall being selected.

Repeat the process with the walls in the other corner. Remember to select the side of the wall you want to keep.

In the view, the 2 trimmed corners highlighted in red.

In the Modify panel, click Trim/Extend Single Element.
Select the horizontal exterior wall at the top of the building. Then, select the vertical interior wall.

In the Modify tab, Modify panel, Trim/Extend Single Element selected and highlighted in red, and in the view, the vertical interior wall being selected, with a dotted line as a preview of the extension to the exterior wall.

Select the horizontal exterior wall at the bottom of the building as the reference.
Select the vertical interior wall on the inside of the exterior wall.

The wall is trimmed.

In the view, the extended and trimmed ends of the vertical interior wall highlighted in red.

In the Modify panel, click Trim/Extend Multiple Elements.
Select the vertical interior wall, and then click and drag to define a crossing window that touches the walls you want to trim or extend.

In the Modify panel, Trim/Extend Multiple Elements selected and highlighted in red, and in the view, a crossing window being drawn to include the walls to be trimmed or extended.

Release the mouse button, and the walls are trimmed and extended.

The walls included in the crossing window now trimmed or extended to the vertical wall.

Click Modify.
Save the project.

Trim and extend walls

Step-by-step guide

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