curved cladding panel

[jagostinho]

Hello,

We curved cladding panels in our projects on a regular basis. We have been doing it by using in-place families and arraying it but I am wondering if is there a more efficient way of doing it, like creating a family that would be easier to load the profile that would apply to an entire roof.

Any ideas or links to sources of reference I could learn how to do it?

Many thanks for your help in advance.

J

[Dimitri Harvalias]

Create a profile family that is the width of a standard panel.
Load that into a family that includes a ref line to control radius and included angle.
Nest that into a line based family.Arc Ribbed Panel.rvt

This is just a quick and dirty version to illustrate concept.

Oops! Just noticed you may not be using 2015. Let me know if you'd like a 2014 version.

[PijPiwo]

Very nice!
However, panel width profile can be reduced to a single rib for more flexibility, isn’t it?

[Dimitri Harvalias]

It probably could but I chose to make it a 'full panel' to reduce the number of elements that need to be placed and managed and to make it more like the way it would be fabricated. You would normally get standard panel widths based on manufacturing. I'd probably create a 'single rib' family or add a void to 'cut to width' to fill in the smaller bits. As I suggested, this was just a quickie for proof of concept.

[rbcameron1]

The other way would be to create it as a curtain wall panel. Then create a custom curtain wall, define the horizontal spacing (and vertical if necessary) and click, drag and you will have a beautifully logical way of creating many of those shapes without the file size that in-place-families have.