Adding walls to a column in Revit

[jdflank]

how would i go about creating a wall to cover the faces of a rectangular structural column. I have found when producing some workflows and using surfaces it has produced two layers of wall. any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

[Yna_Db]

Hello, could you possibly do this with Wall.ByFace? See here:

Wall.ByFace / FaceWall.Create doesn't work

Hi everybody! I ran into this problem in several different cases. I am importing geometry (in this case from rhino) and I try to create walls by the geometry’s faces. When I do it through the UI it works. But from dynamo/python it doesn’t. I tried different approaches for the import: Importing directly into the project using Springs.Family instance by geometry (Using the “Mass” category and a Mass family template); Importing in a mass family with springs’ Form by Geometry; and finally…

[viktor_kuzev]

Try to filter out the edges you don’t need. Now you’re feeding in Wall.byCurve and Height all the edges of a column. You only need the base 4.

[jdflank]

thanks very much very helpful

[ash-james]

Hi, I’ve encountered the same problem but can’t work out how to filter the base edges of the column.
Any ideas?
Thank you.