Corner Window Sill

[good_man_27]

Hello everyone,

I downloaded a window family from the cloud. Window family name is (Windows_Corner), under United Kingdom's region.

I added a few mullions to it and all works fine. When I added a sloped window sill, it looked exactly as I wanted it on the family editor. Please see photo:

However, when I downloaded it, I faced 2 issues:

1. It seems the window family doesn't cut the hosting 2 walls below the sill height level

2. The material I applied to it is not uniformed in both directions.

Please see photo:

I tried for hours, to no prevail. Any idea how to solve both issues please?

[hmunsell]

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@good_man_27 wrote:

However, when I downloaded it, I faced 2 issues:

1. It seems the window family doesn't cut the hosting 2 walls below the sill height level

2. The material I applied to it is not uniformed in both directions.

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I cant find that specific window to double check. But When you added the sill to the family, did you update the Opening Cut for the window?

Try make the sill as 2 different extrusions butting against each other at the corner.

[ToanDN]

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@good_man_27 wrote:

Hello everyone,

I downloaded a window family from the cloud. Window family name is (Windows_Corner), under United Kingdom's region.

I added a few mullions to it and all works fine. When I added a sloped window sill, it looked exactly as I wanted it on the family editor. Please see photo:

However, when I downloaded it, I faced 2 issues:

1. It seems the window family doesn't cut the hosting 2 walls below the sill height level

If you move the window flush with the exterior finish then you won't see the wall sticking up at the sill.  If you window needs to setback from the exterior finish then you might need to edit the void in the family, or cut shave the walls in the project with an in place void.

2. The material I applied to it is not uniformed in both directions.

Edit the family, split face the sill, paint each face with a material parameter.  In project you can assign different materials to different sides of the sill.

Please see photo:

I tried for hours, to no prevail. Any idea how to solve both issues please?

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[good_man_27 · Accepted solution]

Thank you @hmunsell and @ToanDN for your kind reply.

After trying for hours, I figured it out! It was a silly, silly mistake that caused all this issue.

Everything I did, right from the start, was correct: creating a sweep to build the window sill, then a void sweep to cut the default window sill in the window family, as well as the wall edge poking through the new window sill once inserted in the model. I did this for several windows in the model and it worked from the first time.

With this corner window, I actually chose a sweep path based on a line that once the void sweep cuts the window, that reference line gets deleted! Such seems to confuse Revit to where to place the sweep path when building the window once inserted into the model.

Solution: I only needed to set the work plane to the existing reference plane set at sill level, so the position of both sweep paths - the one for the new window sill as well as the one for the void sweep, are set in relation to it.

Both issues got resolved.

So sorry if I wasted your time, but your input is always appreciated.

Cheers.