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Tool Guide

Reveal

Use Reveal to place a wall opening with a three- or four-sided lining. You can adjust the opening shape, lining thickness and depth, and splay the reveal between the two faces of the wall.

At a glance

  • Place the opening with the Window tool and adjust its corners.
  • Set the lining thickness, wall clearance and depth.
  • Use different corner positions on the two sides to create splayed reveals.
Straight reveal in 3DCompare the opening and its lining in plan and 3D.
Opening and liningDefine the shape and the sides to include.

Place Reveal with Archicad’s Window tool. Use a rectangular opening or adjust the custom corner offsets to change its face shape.

Enable Sill to include the bottom of the lining and create a four-sided surround. With Sill off, the lining has three sides. Gap to Wall sets the clearance around the lining, while Thickness sets the lining’s construction thickness.

Straight reveal in planAn example of the tool’s output in Archicad.
Depth and splayControl how the reveal extends through the wall.

Depth Mode determines whether the reveal uses a fixed depth and offset, or extensions measured from the wall faces. Actual Depth displays the resulting depth.

The splay settings allow the corners on Side A and Side B to differ. Matching corners produce a straight reveal; different positions create an angled transition between the faces.

Splayed reveal in 3DCompare the opening and its lining in plan and 3D.
Splayed reveal in planAn example of the tool’s output in Archicad.
Plan graphics and model surfacesSet the representation of the opening and lining.

Use the plan controls to distinguish cut, below and overhead parts, and choose the surfaces for the model.

Reveal is a separate window-type element that creates its own opening and lining. It does not change the frame of another Door or Window already placed in the wall.