topic Re: Angular / Tilted Ceiling Panel in Revit Architecture Forum

Angular / Tilted Ceiling Panel

Anonymous — Mon, 30 Oct 2017 02:52:40 GMT

Hi Community, I have a Stainless Steel Ceiling Panel in a 8 x 11 grid, each one is 'pitched' at a different E/W & N/S angle.

I was hoping to simply create a Generic Family with the Sweep (see attached) and then change the Angle in a Section (what was I thinking, right?)

A) Which Family Template should I use to recreate this in my Project ?

B) Whats the best way to handle the Angular Parameters ?

Re: Angular / Tilted Ceiling Panel

Alfredo_Medina — Mon, 30 Oct 2017 02:56:30 GMT

You could do that with Sweep solids, using two profile families. If you need to change angles, simply edit the profiles.

But, if the angles of N/S and E/W are different, the corners are not going to meet nicely, are they?

Re: Angular / Tilted Ceiling Panel

ToanDN — Mon, 30 Oct 2017 03:03:39 GMT

Generally speaking you can use a sloped glazing with different types of panels. I don't quite get how exactly you want the pitched angle changes? Is it the shape of the sweep profile, or the angle of the entire panel tilting from the horizontal plane?

Re: Angular / Tilted Ceiling Panel

Anonymous — Mon, 30 Oct 2017 03:29:02 GMT

Thanks for your Replies.

The angles are different for each 'Ceiling Panel Element' (see attached)

The Ceiling Panel is the same centered around the same RL but each is angled differently.

Re: Angular / Tilted Ceiling Panel

chrisplyler — Mon, 30 Oct 2017 18:59:03 GMT

You COULD make a mass family for your ceiling, utilizing a divided surface, hosting a pattern based generic model for the tiles, which could have instance parameters for the rotation angles.

Re: Angular / Tilted Ceiling Panel

chrisplyler — Mon, 30 Oct 2017 19:21:40 GMT

Like this...

Re: Angular / Tilted Ceiling Panel

ToanDN — Mon, 30 Oct 2017 19:40:24 GMT

See attached.

Re: Angular / Tilted Ceiling Panel

ToanDN — Mon, 30 Oct 2017 22:05:03 GMT

You can also create a Dynamo script to randomize the tilting angle for each panel.

Re: Angular / Tilted Ceiling Panel

chrisplyler — Tue, 31 Oct 2017 13:10:25 GMT

Or you can set up an adaptive repeater to adjust an angle parameter based on its distance from the edge of the ceiling or whatever.

Re: Angular / Tilted Ceiling Panel

Anonymous — Tue, 31 Oct 2017 19:15:15 GMT

Thanks for all your replies.

We were able to work out the problem by nesting the Tile Family into a Generic Model template, with Reference Lines with an angular Parameter where the nested family is able to be 'tilted' accordingly.

See attached for result.