Convert curtain wall to door/window

[Revit Wishes]

Summary: A curtain wall is NOT a window, but we all know how much easier it would be if we were able to make it one. Using the curtain wall tool as a window editor would save huge amounts of time, and make for consistent doors/windows time after time.

Description: Convert curtain wall to door/window

How Used: A curtain wall is NOT a window, but we all know how much easier it would be if we were able to make it one. Using the curtain wall tool as a window editor would save huge amounts of time, and make for consistent doors/windows time after time.

Feature Affinity: Walls

Submitted By: Bram Weinreder on September 18, 2007

[aaronrumple]

I doubt this would be of much use. The window generated by a curtainwall would have too little detail for most Revit users and still not take into account sills and heads.

I think a better direction would be to have add in System Windows and Doors. This would provide a simple interface like the wall editor. You would be able to define a few parameters in a dialog and sketch a few limited elements. It would provide the new users access to a tool that could build 90% of the doors and windows typically needed. For the advanced stuff - there would still be the family editor.

...and of course since a curtain wall isn't a storefront which isn't a window, we really should have a storefront object. (ADT has the Window Assembly...)

[Zoltan]

I agree with Bram on this one. However, a better interface would be to allow the creation of embedded curtain walls in the family editor when using the window template. This way, the edges of the embedded wall and the Curtain Grids could be locked to Reference Planes or controlled with dimensions, and parameters of the curtain wall can be linked to the family's instance and type parameters. Curtain Panels and Mullions could be labeled with Family Type Paramaters. Beyond that, sills and heads could be modeled separately just like they are done in window families currently.

Many people create complex curtain walls to create "window assemblies"; this way, they would schedule like a window.