Curtain wall issue

[Sahay_R]

A team mate is attempting to insert a curtain wall into a masonry wall type and the curtain wall would not cut through the masonry wall. However, when I attempted to duplicate the situation on my machine, the curtain wall was able to cut through the masonry wall successfully. Now again I am trying to duplicate the situation on my other machine - and am getting the same results.

At first I advised to clean up the computer - delete locals, temp files, restart, etc. Did not help. What could be wrong?

[Revit_Whisperer]

Not all curtain walls are set to automatically embed ( a type parameter of the curtain wall).  The one that is is the Storefront curtail wall type.

You can use the cut tool (on the modify menu,Geometry panel) to cut the opening around the curtail wall though if it is already drawn in the other wall.  Select the wall to cut then what to cut with.

[Sahay_R]

Hi @Revit_Whisperer we are using the Storefront Curtain Wall. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't on the same type of wall in a different location. Sometimes when the same wall is copied and placed in a different location the curtain wall will / will not work. Scratching my head here.

[Revit_Whisperer]

When you draw it make sure that you see the wall centerline show up to snap to or you will have the issue you are seeing

[Sahay_R]

No go. Cut didn't work, Snapping to centerline didn't work. 

[Revit_Whisperer]

If you start a new project does that happen too?  If not could be some sort of corruption...hard to say.  And I guess make sure that the embed checkmark didn't get removed on the storefront.

https://www.screencast.com/t/c1ftVRbwhnZ8

[Sahay_R]

Embed checkmark? What have I missed? 

(suffering a bad case of the Mondays)

[loboarch]

It is a type property of a curtain wall.

[Sahay_R]

Embed checkmark on. This is a brand spanking new project being created to replace the old model. 

Here's what I did to test - in the same project view, I drew a random wall, copied the properties from the 'bad' wall, dropped a storefront wall in there - and it cut. When I tried on the wall of the model (and I'm in the same file same view still) it DID NOT work. GRRR....

[Sahay_R]

Also - neither can she, nor I, make the curtain walls obey. But the team member at the other end of the building can (and he has been told to continue the good work - no one will feel neglected >:)) !!! So creating new walls / a new Project may not be the answer!

[Anonymous]

Hello 

is the masonry wall made by you or one of the existing types in the template ?

[Sahay_R]

It's a custom wall type.

[ToanDN]

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@rsahayUZMK9 wrote:

Also - neither can she, nor I, make the curtain walls obey. But the team member at the other end of the building can (and he has been told to continue the good work - no one will feel neglected >:)) !!! So creating new walls / a new Project may not be the answer!

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So he was able to embed the same curtain wall in the same wall but you was not?  Or was it for another location?

[Lance.Coffey]

Would it be possible to attach a small sample RVT that demonstrates the behavior (e.g. copy problematic wall(s) into a new file)?

This way we could take a closer look at the way the wall/project is configured.

[Anonymous]

Then the problem is most likely adjacent building parts. Any walls connecting to the one you are working with, either above or below? 

Also, since this error does not exist on all work computers, the error is most likely instance-parameter-based.

Our in house BIM-expert often says: "Revit never does something which you do not tell it to do", and so far i haven't found one case where he hasn't been correct. 😉