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Curtain Walls in Revit are strictly a Family of the Walls Category. Then you have Types for each type of Curtain Wall. What if you want to select all Curtain Walls at once? You can’t multi-select type…
I posted about Randomizer a while back. I have since seen it used to randomize the colour of panels. One way to do this is to use a integer or numeric Shared Parameter and View Filters (ie. randomize …
HyunWoo Kim describes how to make a Curtain Wall that has actual curved glass panels (uncommon, but possible) by making a Curtain Wall type with a Basic Wall as the Curtain Panel masquerading as Curve…
John Flanagan details an interesting concept in a recent post – he shows how you can use a Basic Wall with two Glazing layers separated by a core layer to essentially model double glazing systems. You…
If you ever feel like your Revit day is just too basic and straightforward, you should definitely read this post by the RevitCat. There are some serious formulas in place: This technique will not work…
From Philip Chan’s blog:The concept is simple, I make a Generic family (it can be any category actually) as a solid (in this case, just a simple extrusion), let the family intercept the curtain wall, …
I get pretty excited when a new Revit blog comes online – is that sad? Revit: Down to the Details has put out some cool posts since it started two months ago, particularly related to fine detailing an…