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2 THANKS FOR TRYING Thanks a lot for trying the package! This sample chapter is about Curtain Walls. You will also find a complete video tutorial at this link: We hope you enjoy the video. Make sure to check out the full package at the URL below. revitpure.com/basics Copyright BIM Pure Productions LEGAL STUFF This ebook is independent of Autodesk inc. and is not sponsored, endorsed or affiliated with Autodesk inc. Autodesk Revit is a product that is wholly owned by Autodesk. Any reference to Revit on this ebook is made acknowledging this ownership. Refer to Autodesk s own website and prodcut pages for specific trademark and copyright informations. Please visit to buy Revit or to get more information.

3 LET S HAVE FUN LEARNING REVIT SHOULD BE EXCITING The first time you open Revit, you might feel a wave of confusion at all these commands, icons, buttons and stuff jumping on you. Our goal is simple: take the confused feeling and turn it into fun and curiosity. GET THE FIRST You need to learn 20% of Revit to do 80% of the work. Our goal is to trim the fat and get to this core. If an information is used 1% of the time, you don t need to learn it yet. GREY ZONE = ADVANCED TIPS If you feel adventurous, expand your knowledge by checking advanced tips and strategies. You will find them in gray text box like this one. You can skip these tips and come back later if you wish. HOW TO USE RP? The best setup for RP Basics is to use two screen, one will be used for the PDF and video tutorials, the other will be used for Revit. If you don t have 2 screens, don t worry, everything will still work fine.

4 10.1 WHAT ARE? Curtain Walls can do much more than glazed walls. They can be used for walls with complex patterns, special railings and even casework. Curtain Walls contains most properties of a basic wall. They have bottom and top constraints and their profile can be modified. The difference lies among the following features: CURTAIN GRIDS Curtain grids are division created on the walls. These division can be horizontal or vertical. MULLIONS Mullions are elements that can be created on each curtain grid segment, as well as on each curtain wall extremities. CURTAIN PANELS Curtain panels are rectangular elements located between each curtain grids. 4

5 10.2 SELECT A TYPE CREATE A CURTAIN WALL Curtain Walls are created in the same way as regular walls. Select the wall tool in the architecture tab. The difference is that when selecting a type, you have to scroll down to select a wall in the Curtain Wall category. These walls have a glass icon next to them. Like with regular walls, set base and top constraints. Then draw the wall. 5

6 10.3 FILL AN EMPTY CURTAIN WALL Use an empty curtain wall type that doesn t use any automatic constraints or automatic mullions. Create a new wall and set all constraints. It will look like a plain glass wall. Let s fill it up. ADD CURTAIN GRIDS Select the curtain grid tool in architecture tab. Place your cursor on the edge of the curtain wall or with another curtain grid intersection. Then click to add the curtain grid. Adjust dimensions. ADD MULLIONS Select the mullion tool, then click on a curtain grid or on the edge of the wall to add them. By default they are created on the complete length of a curtain grid. 6

7 10.4 SET AN AUTOMATIC CURTAIN WALL Most of the time you want to use an automatic curtain wall, with fixed dimensions, specific glass and mullions types. These walls can be set to mimic specs from manufacturers. Let s build one from scratch. SET GRIDS DIMENSIONS Select curtain wall and click. Set layouts and spacing for vertical and horizontal grids. Use Maximum Spacing layout to equally divide your curtain wall. Use Fixed Distance to set a specified distance between grids, except for the filler at beginning or end. 7

8 10.4 ADD MULLIONS In the type properties, scroll to Vertical and Horizontal Mullions category. Add a mullion type to each category. Border 1 are left/bottom mullions, Border 2 are right/top mullions. EMBED CURTAIN WALL By default, curtain walls will be embedded in a regular wall, like a window would. Moving the hosting wall will also cause the curtain wall to move (pin curtain wall to avoid this). To deactivate default embedding, uncheck it in Curtain Wall type. 8

9 10.5 CREATE RECTANGULAR MULLION TYPE Select a mullion, click and duplicate to create new type. Make sure Default profile is selected. Adjust both side of Width. Side 1 is left/ bottom, while Side 2 is right/top. Adjust Thickness and Offset, which is the distance from the center of the mullion to the center of the wall. CREATE CURTAIN PANEL TYPE Default curtain panels have three critical parameters to set: Thickness, Offset and Material. Offset is the distance between the center of the curtain wall and the center of the panel. 9

10 TIPS 1- PRESS TAB TO CYCLE THROUGH ELEMENTS Selecting elements in a curtain wall can be tricky, because by default a click will result in selecting the whole wall. Use tab to cycle through mullions, curtain panels and curtain grids. 2- RIGHT-CLICK MULLION FOR SELECTION OPTIONS When you select a mullion, only segment between two curtain grids will be selected. Right-click to get more selection options like in the image below. 10

11 UNPIN ELEMENTS TO MODIFY THEM By default, you can t move or modify elements (mullions, panels, grids) in automatic curtain walls since that would break the rules set in type. Unpin the elements to make them independent. 4- MAKE CURTAIN PANEL A WALL OR AN EMPTY PANEL The power of curtain walls is that you don t have to only use glazed panels. In fact, you can use any wall type available in your project. You can also make the curtain panel empty. 11

12 SET WALL PANEL OFFSET If you replace a curtain panel by a wall, make sure to set the offset in the instance properties, under Location Line Offset. A negative value for the offset will push the wall to the interior side. 6- REPLACE CURTAIN PANEL BY A DOOR Curtain panels can be replaced by a door. These doors are different from regular doors: their size is dictated by the space between curtain grids. Make sure to delete the mullion below the door. 12

13 ADD/REMOVE CURTAIN GRIDS SEGMENTS By default, curtain grids fill the entire length of a curtain wall. When selecting curtain grids, click on Add/Remove Segment, then click on segments to remove or add them. Mullions will be automatically deleted. 8- SET GRID JUSTIFICATION IN INSTANCE PROPERTIES When using Fixed Distance for grids layout, set the justification in the instance properties of the curtain wall. 13

14 DON T MOVE MULLIONS: MOVE THE GRIDS This can be confusing for beginners: Mullions can t be moved by themselves. You have to move the curtain grids to which they are attached. 10- USE CORNER MULLIONS AT INTERSECTION By default, regular mullions will be created at the intersection of two curtain walls. Delete vertical mullions from one of the wall and replace the other by Corner Mullions. Corner Mullion types include L-Shaped (used in the image), V-Shaped, Trapezoid, Quad Corner and Circular. 14

15 ARRANGE MULLION CONTINUITY Select a mullion, you will see you the icon on each extremity. Click it to change continuity on intersecting mullions. You can also use the tools in the contextual menu, which will change both extremities of a selected mullion at once. This process can also be automated in curtain wall type properties, under the parameter Join Condition. 15

16 10.7 CASE STUDY: CASINO CASWORK TRIANGLE SHAPED CURTAIN PANELS Curtain Walls are awesome because their use is not limited to curtain walls. In the casino project pictured below, we used curtain walls for interior perforated panels. To get that result, create a custom curtain panel family with triangle holes inside an extrusion. Then add an offset of 3mm between the reference planes and the extrusion to mimic the joint between panels. 16

17 ADVANCED TIPS 1- ADD ANGLE TO ROTATE CURTAIN GRIDS All curtain grids are parallel to one another. To change the angle, select curtain wall and set Vertical and Horizontal angles in Instance Properties. 2- CREATE CUSTOM MULLION PROFILES Create a new mullion profile family for specific shapes, whether it be a specific manufacturer profile or a weird star-shaped mullion. 17

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