Wall & Beam Ends
Disallow or allow end joins on walls and structural framing, or shorten and extend them at either end, across a selection, a view or the whole project.
Pick what to do (Disallow joins, Allow joins, Shorten, Extend), at which end, and by how much. Choose the elements and types, preview the new lengths and join states, and apply as one undo step. Each element is read back afterwards and anything Revit didn’t change as planned is reported, never silently assumed.
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Workflow
How it works
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Do and At
Disallow joins, Allow joins, Shorten or Extend, at Both ends, Start (first point) or End (last point). By 0–10,000 mm, measured along the arc for curved elements, with a minimum remaining length (default 50 mm).
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Elements
Selection, Active view, Whole project or Pick in Revit…; Walls (including stacked and curtain walls) and Structural Framing, with counts, and a type list whose unticked types are remembered.
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Options
Disallow joins at moved ends (on by default), Only joined ends, Include pinned, Include group members, Delete broken dimensions (applies Revit’s own Delete References fix and counts them).
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Preview and Apply
Status, Length, New length, Start and End (e.g. joined (1) → disallowed), Reason, Level and Group per element. One undo step named like “Disallow Join: shorten 6 elements by 500 mm”.
Capabilities
What’s inside
Honest results
After writing, every element is read back; one that Revit didn’t change as planned is left out and the run repeated without it. In a real model, Shorten 20 mm accepted 149 and refused 20 with reasons.
Allow really re-joins
A neighbour still holding a stale join is refreshed so the join comes back.
Helpful hints
Revit’s “Can’t keep elements joined” comes with a hint: a neighbour still holds this end; disallow joins on both ends of the neighbours first.
Select joined
Find and select only the elements whose ends are currently joined.
Decimal-friendly
Accepts . or , as the decimal mark.
Report and history
Copy or export CSV; the last 100 runs are kept.
Safety guarantees
- Asks first above 500 elements
- In-place walls, stacked-wall members, nested instances, splines and ellipses are skipped with a reason; pinned elements by default
- Elements that would end up shorter than the minimum are skipped
- One undo step per run
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Tutorials
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