Adding a door to a curtain wall

[jlambert]

Guys I am new to revit. I usually do electrical but my company is doing modular elecctrical rooms. When biding on certain jobs for these I am asked to renders of what it would look like. So I have been trying to get a template set up to do this. Anyway I am using curtain walls to create the metal paneling that goes on the exterior. When doing this I can not figure out how to place a door in this wall. If I change the grid it changes how the panels looks. If I add the door it changes a hole panel. Any Ideas would be very appreciated.

[barthbradley]

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@Anonymous wrote:

If I change the grid it changes how the panels looks. If I add the door it changes a hole panel. 

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Yes, that is correct. To add a door in a curtain wall, you need to define the door location in the curtain wall. To define the door location in a curtain wall, you add grid lines/mullions.  Then you select and change the whole panel at the door location into a curtain wall door, or into a wall to host a standard door.

[ionti]

Hi @jlambert,

here a Screencast with the process and the element (family) I use.

[Sahay_R]

Two approaches - 

1) Use a curtain wall door. Load the family into your project.  Tab click to isolate the desired curtainwall panel., Edit Type, and then switch the panel family with the door family

2) Use a regular door - Tab-click to isolate the desired curtainwall panel, Edit Type, switch to regular wall. Then you can drop in a regular door family

[jlambert]

I have posted what I have maybe when I made this curtain wall I went about it wrong. What I have done is taken these panels from bim objects it was a project file instead of a family so somehow I had made it a family loaded in to my project then just entered in the info in the curtain wall. if you see the verticale is high but my door needs to be regular size not the whole size of the panel. Maybe me loading the project you will see what I am working with.

[ToanDN · Accepted solution]

You need to add grids to frame the "cell" to the door size, then select the panel in that "cell" and change it to the curtain door type.

[loboarch]

If others posts have not helped perhaps this will.  Topic on adding a door to a curtain wall in Help.

http://help.autodesk.com/view/RVT/2018/ENU/?guid=GUID-4B806EBE-2B46-4889-BC12-77FA23BFBA88

[jlambert]

ok now I dont think this would happen but if the door landed in between 2 panels theres no easy way to do that or would it even be possible. I get what you are doing and it makes a big difference.

[ToanDN]

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@Anonymous wrote:

ok now I dont think this would happen but if the door landed in between 2 panels theres no easy way to do that or would it even be possible. I get what you are doing and it makes a big difference.

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It can be done.  But as a designer you should not let it happen.

[barthbradley]

@jlambert: As a designer, you are mitigating for those situations. If the Architect or building code says a door must be located at a juncture of mullions, well then...you need to move/remove mullions.