STRUCTURE & SITE

Wall Cut by Link.

Cut host walls against columns and walls in the linked file: the portion inside the linked solid is dropped so the linked element shows at its true width.

01 · THE PROBLEM

When a host architectural wall runs through a linked structural column or wall, Revit doesn't trim the overlap on its own — the drawing still shows an unbroken wall run sitting over the column, and engineers have to model a void family or edit the cut profile at every single spot to expose the structural member at its true width.

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Hand-modeling a void extrusion at every intersection

The native workaround is to model an in-place void extrusion matching the linked column or wall, then run Cut Geometry — on a floor with dozens of structural columns, that's the whole draw-align-cut sequence repeated at every intersection.

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The linked column's cut pattern gets hidden by the host wall

Autodesk itself confirms a host architectural wall commonly hides a linked structural column's cut pattern, and the Revit Links filter tab can't fix it — the usual workaround is overriding the wall's transparency to 1 across the board, which also wipes out the solid fill you still need elsewhere.

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Element widths show up wrong if the cut is skipped

Skip the cut and the drawing shows the wall running wider or narrower than the linked element's real footprint — which reads as the wrong dimension once it hits construction documents.

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Every structural revision means remodeling the voids

A hand-drawn void extrusion doesn't update when the linked structural element moves or resizes — every time structural issues a revision, architecture has to re-check every old cut point by hand.

02 · FEATURES

What it does

No Autodesk App Store add-in was found that automates "cut the host wall against a column or wall in a linked file" — Autodesk's own documentation and community forum only offer manual routes: build a void extrusion and run Cut Geometry, or override wall transparency to expose the cut pattern. WallCutByLink replaces that whole sequence with one command that reads the linked element's solid directly and trims the host wall — no void family required:

Cut against the link

Reads columns and walls from every loaded Revit link
Removes the wall run inside the linked element's solid
The host wall splits into segments keeping its parameters
Runs straight off the ribbon with no setup

TOOL INTERFACE · RUNNING IN REVIT

Operational interface and functional overview

The interface is matched to the tool window running in Revit.