I'm trying to develop a trapezoidal family for curtain walls that works in place of a residential window system (out-to-outs schedule, no Revit mullions). I'm trying to start very simple here, with just having the top of a 4-sided window slope to any condition where it is sloped in a curtain wall, i.e. up at sloped roofs or gables. However, I can't seem to put this panel in the system and have it adapt like the glazing and solid panels already in Revit? I'm really not sure what I am missing here, the family works and is very simple...
Could this be done with just an embedded curtain wall with the profile edited?
Or is there a reason it has to be done with a true "window" family? Or maybe I did not understand the exact issue?
The embedded CW profile is already edited - I'm trying to use the family I've developed within that, without using any mullions.
Why don't you just make a mullion profile of your window frame in your CP family, and use that to create Vertical and Horizontal mullions of your embedded curtain wall ? Then embed glazing panels?
I know that I could do that, but specifically would like this panel to be one unit out-to-out, with no mullions that push and undersize glass panels for scheduling. The unit should be a "curtain wall panel" even though I'm calling it a window (it is not a Revit "window"). The mullion profile is already embedded in the panel, it's just that I can't get it to adapt to slopes.
Nest another curtain wall type inside the main one. Use detail components when you need to show the correct profile on detail drawings.
Interesting approach - not exactly what I was trying to do, though better than where I was at. So I'm wondering - is there just no way to way to make a curtain wall panel that isn't square except for what Revit has coded by default (glazing, solid)?
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Interesting approach - not exactly what I was trying to do, though better than where I was at. So I'm wondering - is there just no way to way to make a curtain wall panel that isn't square except for what Revit has coded by default (glazing, solid)?
The height of the panel is governed by the top horizontal reference plane. You need to lock the angle planes to it somehow.
I can't get the angle parameter to the top horizontal to work, whether as an instance or a reporting parameter. I started trying to do this with 2 different instance height parameters, one for each corner - family works well, but is there a way to tie this back to the horizontal correctly to work as the curtain panel?
I see. So a custom panel is not allowed in a non-rectangular cell. Period.
Edit:
Don't edit profile and create the curtain panel family with different heights for either sides and enter them case by case in project.
Or create a 4-point adaptive family and manually snap to the corners of the trapezoid in project.
Ok - what I feared (wishlist item if they could code this is in), but I think I'll try the nested CW for the time being.
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