HELP - Facade Design

[anderson-j9536305]

Hey,

I am currently working in a Facade Company and first time doing facades on Revit.

I have been advised to install it as a curtain wall and that is working out ok, untill i had to change the shape of the panel around a window. I am using Marley Eternit's Revit file to create the facade as that is the product being used.

Whenever i try to make an opening I get a message saying the panel cannot be created. How do i overcome this??

See attached image, i need to cut the window out of the panel.

Thanks

[KoryCox]

Hey, I hope I'm not too late to help.

Curtain walls work differently from other walls. You can't just cut a piece out of it. However there are off the top of my head two ways to help you out of your jam (pun intended.)

Select the curtain panel and change it to a wall (yes! you can do this!) Any wall type in the project can be used in place of a curtain panel. Then you can insert a window into the wall that is inserted into the curtain wall. Trippy, eh?

Your second option, and I have done this before for a curtain system that had windows as an integral part of the curtain panel duplicated all over the building (so that first method would be inefficient). Create a custom Curtain Panel family. In that family create a "window." Cut a hole in the panel, add a sweep for the frame, then add an extrusion for glass. Control the extents of it with reference planes and parameters, and BAM! You have a curtain wall with integral window. The problem with this approach is that windows would not be schedulable as they would not be recognized as windows in Revit since the Curtain Panel type is its own category separate from the Windows category.

Use the first method if scheduling is important. In my case scheduling the windows wasn't important since they came as part of the curtain panel units straight from the manufacturer.