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sloped curtain roof

andy.van.slambrouck — Wed, 22 Feb 2017 20:06:14 GMT

Hi all,

I'm trying to make a roof for an Industrial building with isolated panels. For this work I try to make as much as possible all element in 3D.

I have a curtain based roof with panels as you can see in the attached image.

All things works fine when I sketch the footprint without any slope, just horizontal as you can at the most left side, in this way the panels have the direction that I wan't to place them.

But I need to place them with a light slope from 2degrees. But when I define a slope or use the slope arrow the result is everytime that the direction of the panels is changed 90degrees as you can see on the right roof.

I cannot figure out how I can place them with a slope in the direction I wanna?

Re: sloped curtain roof

ToanDN — Wed, 22 Feb 2017 20:20:41 GMT

Did you set the layout using Grid 1 or Grid 2? I have run a test and with a configuration similar to yours, the direction of the slope needs to run parallel to Grid 1.

Re: sloped curtain roof

andy.van.slambrouck — Wed, 22 Feb 2017 20:44:16 GMT

Hi Toan,

I tried it like in your image, but still no change, only I get error messages as in attached image.

Re: sloped curtain roof

ToanDN — Wed, 22 Feb 2017 20:46:45 GMT

I don't see your attached image. Can you copyclip a roof, pasteclip to a new file and upload it?

Re: sloped curtain roof

andy.van.slambrouck — Wed, 22 Feb 2017 20:47:09 GMT

forgot image in my post 🙂

Re: sloped curtain roof

ToanDN — Wed, 22 Feb 2017 20:52:32 GMT

Can't say much from the error message to be honest. Upload a Revit file per my previous reply if you can.

Re: sloped curtain roof

andy.van.slambrouck — Wed, 22 Feb 2017 21:01:23 GMT

ok, no problem. I placed the roof in a new file.

Re: sloped curtain roof

ToanDN — Wed, 22 Feb 2017 22:12:53 GMT

Try this one. All the elements in the curtain panel family need to rotate 90 degree.

Re: sloped curtain roof

andy.van.slambrouck — Wed, 22 Feb 2017 23:48:14 GMT

Amazing! Thx a lot. I thought it had maybe something to do with the family, but I'm not so well trust with curtain panels, will look for sure in the family to see how you managed it.

Re: sloped curtain roof

ToanDN — Wed, 22 Feb 2017 23:55:27 GMT

The original curtain family is a mess. Ton of reference planes doing nothing, even overlapping. The family was built for horizontal wall panels so when you used it to vertical siding or sloped roof, it did not work.