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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…
Revit Wants you to use a good, clean, consistent technique when setting up Curtain Wall mullions for high quality detailing. Here is one way to set these up for nice corner joins – the advantage is th…
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…
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…
I love to see Revit tools used in somewhat unintended ways. In this case, Jay Holland divides an In-Place Mass Face and applies a Pattern Based Roof Tile to the divided surface – cool! His sample file…
It’s an old trick, but if you want to get rid of excess gridlines and mullions on a wall, just make a new Curtain Wall type that has no type-driven gridlines or mullions: When you switch to this wall …
Martijn is starting up an interesting series of posts about Custom Curtain Wall creation at RevitForum Blog – it would pay to follow this series of posts. In part ‘zero’, he establishes some groundrul…