topic Re: Angled cut in curtain walls (wall cladding) - workarounds don't seem to work in Revit Architecture Forum

Angled cut in curtain walls (wall cladding) - workarounds don't seem to work

ale_jablonski — Fri, 01 Apr 2022 01:31:53 GMT

Hi guys, I've been trying to do an angled cut on this wall cladding in order to match with the rafter/beam without success.

(fig. 1)

Details:

- I created this wall cladding using a Metric Curtain Wall Panel template.

- Each part of the curtain wall is looking like this, I think the high number of individual parts worsen the problem (since it covers long faces of the shed).

(fig. 2)

What I have tried with no success:

- Cut geometry using a reference plane;

- Attach top/base using a reference plane;

- Edit profile/boundaries of the curtain wall;

- Select curtain wall and change the angle of the grid;

- Repeat the profile (fig 2.) a couple times after each other on family creation in order to create longer/less parts(?).

I haven't tried any mass solution yet because It shouldn't have such a complex solution for this case I guess.

If you guys have any ideas I would much appreciate it.
Thanks.

Re: Angled cut in curtain walls (wall cladding) - workarounds don't seem to work

ToanDN — Fri, 01 Apr 2022 01:51:09 GMT

Custom curtain panels only work with rectangular shapes. Workarounds: Use vertical mullions with a corrugated profile to create vertical ribs. No panels at all.

Re: Angled cut in curtain walls (wall cladding) - workarounds don't seem to work

barthbradley — Fri, 01 Apr 2022 05:14:55 GMT

FWIW: This entire corrugated structure is modeled with Curtain Walls having only Mullions. Opening and gables were made by editing the Curtain Wall profiles.

Re: Angled cut in curtain walls (wall cladding) - workarounds don't seem to work

RDAOU — Tue, 06 May 2025 09:19:51 GMT

@ale_jablonski

What @barthbradley suggested is brilliant (only mullions) but what if you want to quantify panels...right?

Several ways to do so

use a pattern based component on a divided surface
add a void in the custom panel to cut the top at an angle
or even simply cut and trim the curtain wall to the shape you desire (USING only Panels similar to the below GIF)...ie: what has been stated on custom panels working only for rectangular shaped walls is not entirely true. They can be cut and shaped using a mass form

Re: Angled cut in curtain walls (wall cladding) - workarounds don't seem to work

ale_jablonski — Sun, 03 Apr 2022 21:17:32 GMT

Really appreciate your replies guys.

Ah, I forgot to mention one thing I've done, which is: I used an existing curtain wall profile (Curtain_Wall-Exterior_Glazing) and then edited type using the one I created:

Since I'm beginner/intermediate and haven't really been using curtain walls much, I don't know how to put in practice some of the solutions you guys suggest 😂, sorry.

As far as I understood what @barthbradley and @ToanDN suggested, they simulate the cladding with mullions only, right? It's cool but I really wanted a real cladding on it.

@RDAOU thanks for all the effort making the gifs. I'll try to create a family using a Metric Curtain Panel Pattern Based yhis time and see what happens.

Re: Angled cut in curtain walls (wall cladding) - workarounds don't seem to work

ToanDN — Sun, 03 Apr 2022 21:24:19 GMT

If you insist on using a custom curtain panel family then don't change the curtain wall profile, so that it accepts the custom panel. Use an in place mass with a solid form to cut the curtain wall to the shape you want.

Re: Angled cut in curtain walls (wall cladding) - workarounds don't seem to work

ale_jablonski — Wed, 04 May 2022 22:06:30 GMT

I still haven't found out how to cut the claddings guys hehe. I noticed that when I try to use a Metric Curtain Panel Pattern Based and fill up the square with the cladding extrusion, it gets ridiculously heavy and slow, impossible to manage.

Re: Angled cut in curtain walls (wall cladding) - workarounds don't seem to work

hung3XGFH — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 19:33:37 GMT

@ToanDN solution works with curved curtain walls.

Re: Angled cut in curtain walls (wall cladding) - workarounds don't seem to work

dkgraph4 — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 16:18:56 GMT

@RDAOU wrote:
@ale_jablonski
... or even simply cut and trim the curtain wall to the shape you desire (USING only Panels similar to the below GIF)...ie: what @ToanDN stated on custom panels working only for rectangular shaped walls is not entirely true

Hi, sorry for digging up this subject again, but I 've watch the gifs 20 times I can't figure it out :

How did you make the trim or the cut-out in your custom pannel ?

(From my understanding, yours is a simple Metric Curtain Wall Panel Family with a kind of array of extrusion and maybe a what seems to be a void cut with a angle parameter ?)

The only way I found is to cut the pannel with a Mass in place, simple, but it does'nt substract the area in the property, so it's pretty useless. What am I missing ?

Re: Angled cut in curtain walls (wall cladding) - workarounds don't seem to work

azad.Nanva — Fri, 13 Sep 2024 08:31:58 GMT

i use the custom profile as mullions and sometimes , that i have to use the panel i make them to custom profile for the last piece.

(view in My Videos)