curved wall needs straight window or straight wall opening

[Anonymous]

I have a curved wall in my building and when you place a window or wall opening the opening follows the curve of the wall. 

The architect wants the windows (wall openings) to sit parallel to the straight gable walls.

Please see print screen image attached. It shows the curved wall with the windows placed (along curve). The green model lines show the position we want the window to sit.

I have tried aligning wall openings to the staright model lines but it doesn't work.

Any help on this subject would be great.

(I'm using Revit 2015)

[enslinj]

Hi there,

Not sure how familiar you are with parametrics so I am going to try keep it as simple as possible.

You going to have to take the window you have placed far & do a save-as of the family to ensure you don’t override all the windows in your project.

Edit Family:

Select the wall in the family & using type selector change wall to same thinness as wall in project.
Delete the default wall opening in the window family. (Window is now inside the wall & not visible). In plan draw a solid extrusion of what the opening should look like. (Based on measurements in project)
Change to front elevation view & align the extrusion with the ref. planes representing the height of the aperture in wall (sill height & head height)
Click on this new extrusion you created & change it to a “void” using the properties dialog.
Solid / Void drop-down (right at the bottom of the properties dialog)
Shape will have an orange outline to show it’s a void, but it’s not cutting anything just yet.
Click cut geometry, click the wall & than the void.

The wall will now be cut according to your preferred angle & not the standard 90deg cut.

Save, load & replace your existing windows.

NOTE: This family isn’t parametric & can’t change size. If this is a requirement you will have to post the window family you are using.

Hope this helps

[Anonymous]

I will try this tomorrow. Thank you for your help 🙂


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[Anonymous]

Hi,

I'm using a 900mm wide window. I clicked on the window and hit edit family, and save as new window family but the window width is now 540mm. When I try to change it to 900mm it won't let me.

Please see the attached print screen. It is asking aboutthe heat transfer co-efficient. This pop up occurrs when I try to change the width of the window to 900mm.

[ennujozlagam]

hi Is there any way you can post your window family or send to my private email.

[enslinj]

Hi there,

As mentioned,please post the window family.

Also please specify the height & width you need the window to be as well as the angle difffernce between what you getting & what you want the cut to do in plan to be.

[Anonymous]

The wall is curved and when I place the window, it follows the curve of the wall and sits at an angle. I would like the window to sit at 90 degree angle, so the wall is curved but the windows are placed straight. 

Please see the print screens attached. The green model lines show the angle I want to windows to sit at in the wall.

The window is 900 wide, 2700 high, sill height 0.00.

Thanks for all your help.

kylie

[Anonymous]

the angle difference is 12.44 degrees

[enslinj]

Perfect, opening is cut the way you want it. Just need to make the window.

Can you post or PM your window?

Alternatively, I am going to have to create a "generic" which may not be what you want & than the exercise becomes pointless.

Thx

[Anonymous]

Morning Junne,

Thank you for taking the time to do this for me, but the bad news is…it didn’t work 😞

I placed the window family you sent me in my curved wall but the problem is not resolved. (See image ‘new window placed’). The window still follows the curve of the wall and is not sitting at a 90 degree angle as I would like.

The second print screen  shows what happens after I saved your window family and made the changes suggested in your first proposal. It won’t let me place the window after I made those changes.

Didn’t think it would be this difficult haha!

Regards,

Kylie

[enslinj]

Hi,

Attached is a generic window, I havent made it fully parametic because I dont know the contruction of the family you looking to use in your actual project.

It will result in double work.

Try the attached family and see if this get you closer to what you what you want.

Again trying to assist you without the actual family is making this process more tricky.

[Anonymous]

i got it to work 🙂

drew a window using model in place but only drew the opening of the window dimensions i wanted using void extrusion.

then i used a curtain wall glazing and changed the dimensions to match the window dimeniosns i wanted and disallowed the joins (right click the blue circles at either end and hit disallow join) if you don't do this it won't let you place the glazing in the opening.

then i added mullions and will add cill later 🙂

thanks for all your help