Curtain Wall: Flip Normals / Reverse Direction?

[jpyeatt]

I've modeled a curtain wall. It's nice. Curved. A variety of mullion types, exterior fritted panels, planter boxes, etc. The whole thing is tops, really.

Except that one facade is oriented in THE WRONG DIRECTION. My exterior glazing is on the inside of the wall, my interior mullions are sticking out of the building, etc. There really should be something so simple as a 'reverse face' button, but I haven't seen one.

Does anyone have a solution for this?

It's a small thing, but it has me vergeing on an aneurysm. ;O
I'd really like to avoid re-modeling the conceptual base-form if at all possible. Thoughts?

Thanks & Cheers.
JP-

[d.stairmand]

There should be a "Control" (2 Little Arrows) on the Curtain Wall, if viewed in a Plan View
It should pop up once the CW is Selected. You should then be able to Flip it to whichever direction you want

[mibzim]

you should be able to use the spacebar to flip too

[jpyeatt]

For whatever reason, these options didn't seem to work. Thanks for the reply, quite regardless.

Perhaps this has something to do with the construction of the (curtain wall) model itself? As opposed to a nice orthogonal wall drawn within the Revit Project, my backward curtain wall is based on a conceptual mass model. The curtain wall system was created by selecting this face, after importing the family/mass into my project.

There doesn't seem to be a handy 'flip' icon, nor 'spacebar' functionality.

Any other ideas?

[jpyeatt]

Let's drag this out once more, but with a new twist:

How can you reverse the direction of a plane (Not a solid mass, mind you. We're talkin' planes here) within a conceptual mass? I've tracked the above problem down to this issue.

When I select the face (of a conceptual mass) within my Project File and convert it to a curtain wall, it assumes that the wall is already pointing a given direction. It just so happens that this assumption is facing the wrong way. And thus, my mullions are facing the wrong direction.

EDIT / UPDATE:
I just tried extruding one of the backward faces within my conceptual mass and creating a solid volume instead. I thought this would OBVIOUSLY define the exterior face of the curtain wall. Still, when selecting the face in my project, the curtain wall assumed the wrong direction. Oi.

If nobody has a more pressing Friday-morning issue to take care of, please explain. Thanks! JP-

[jpyeatt]

And, if anyone is really interested, I'm attaching the conceptual mass with the misbehaving faces. Turns out that ALL of my faces are backwards. Which makes me think it's something specific to my process.

Oh, the learning curve of Revit. ;)

[alexwill05]

And, if anyone is really interested, I'm attaching the conceptual mass with the misbehaving faces. Turns out that ALL of my faces are backwards. Which makes me think it's something specific to my process.

Oh, the learning curve of Revit. ;)

I'm having this problem in Revit 2018. Did Autodesk fix this issue yet? I'm trying hard to find the answer, but no sucess until now. It's just not viable for me to redraw it all with different line orientations right now.