Curtain Walls

[ford347]

Hi everyone,

I have a project in which there were roll up doors at the exterior of the building and the client would simply like to infill the openings with some storefront window systems. I have drawn all of the existing work, including the roll-up doors. I then demolish the doors in my new plan. I then select the new wall segment that replaced the demolished door and turn it into an exterior glazing wall segment. I would expect this to simply turn the 8' wide by 9' tall wall segment into the exterior glazing, but no, it turns the whole 18' tall 100' long exterior wall into the exterior glazing segment. Please help. I cannot adjust the size either.
I would just like to know how to turn the opening wall segment into the glazing I need to replace it with. I am not that knowledgeable with the store-front thing in Revit. It behaves oddly to me. I have been reading posts on it and that is helping, seems to be something to do with the grid properties when it was created or whatever, so if anyone has any advice on the easiest way to start with a blank slate with glazing, I would appreciate it.

Thank you

[aggockel50321]

You might try this. It should work.

Demolish the door.

Insert an opening of the same size where the door was.

Place your curtain wall from one end of the opening to the other, setting it's height to match the opening's.

Add your grid & mullions.

[tamas]

I think you can use an embedded curtain wall that you place after the door was demolished.

Changing the type of only the infill piece is not expected by Revit. In fact, it is pretty hard (but unfortunately not impossible) to select it.

When you demolish the door, Revit must fill in the void by a wall of the same kind as the big wall. When you try to change its type, you in effect say that the big wall type is different regardless of the phases.

[Mr Spot]

Yeah as tamas suggested.

Demolish the door then create a curtain wall (make sure its set to automatically embed in its properties) then draw it to the extents of the opening...

[ford347]

That makes sense, I'll try that. Before I was selecting the wall that the door was replaced with and turning it into a curtain wall. Thanks Guys!! I'll let you know

[k.armstrong]

So it would be good if you could tell revit that either
a) infill where door/window demolished with wall to match adjacent OR
b) infill with selected wall OR
c) create opening

what does everyone think

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