Creating Stacked Walls

Walls in a building—especially exterior walls—are often composed of several wall types made out of different material combinations and with different widths that stack one on top of another over the height of the façade. Because these walls usually sit on top of a foundation wall, you would likely want to establish an intelligent relationship among these different wall assemblies so the entire façade acts as one wall (for example, when the foundation wall moves and you expect walls on top of the foundation to also move). This is where stacked walls can help.

image Stacked walls allow you to create a single wall entity composed ...

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