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Curtain wall Mullions - multi-material

We have a situation where the interior side of the curtain wall will be a wood finish mullion and the exterior will be aluminum.  We are trying to figure out a way to make this happen in the mullion family so it's all modeled in one curtain wall instance.  BTW, I'm not talking about the way curtain wall families currently call "interior mullions" as the ones occurring inside the curtainwall (not head, jamb, or sill mullions).  I'm talking about splitting all the mullions material in the plane of the glazing panel - interior of the building/exterior of the building.

 

The only way we've been able to model this condition is with two curtain wall instances - one with the wood mullions and glass panels, and the other with the aluminum mullions.  The problem is if the curtain wall is modified (location in plan, length or width, or mullion grid pattern, etc.) we now have to make these modifications in two parallel families.

 

It would be a much better workflow if Revit mullion families could be setup with a different "interior finish" and "exterior finish" material.  The break between interior and exterior could happen automatically wherever the panel offset occurred.

 

Thanks!

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Advisor
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Contributor
Contributor

Nice idea!

 

There are also a idea you might want to consider adding your vote to:

 

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-ideas/more-realistic-curtain-wall/idi-p/7531182

Anonymous

The industry offers curtail walls with material inserts like wood now. Our designers want to use these mullions and have to use inefficient workflows to represent it wood on one side and aluminium on the other side.

 

This was not really an issue years ago, but with these new products being offered, Revit needs to gently evolve to support more than one material per curtain walls. I am not sure what the right solution is, but a profile and material alone is no longer enough.

 

https://www.raico.de/en/Products/THERM/Timber-curtain-wall.php

https://www.loewen.com/products/curtain-wall/

Collaborator
Collaborator

We need the ability to set different materials for a curtain wall mullions inside and outside.
Right now we're stuck and can't find a way to accomplish this.

Allow different materials to be set, or at least -  make the paint tool work with mullions.

Saw the topic earlier, was thinking you could possibly add another CW in front of the other creating a double mullion for front/back? Upvoted for painting mullions, made sense to me to be able to do so anyway.;)

Contributor
Contributor

You can also use another curtain wall type (for example white) in another (for example black) curtainwall as a panel fill. In that way you can get different color's / mulion angles / .. in a curtain wall

Anonymous

Exactly!

So far I did not find a way to use different materials in curtain wall profile. I also could not nest another family in it.