Curtain Wall Schedule

[Anonymous]

We are switching to Revit from ACA at my firm. This is my third project in Revit that has gone to Construction Documents. It is the first time one of the projects has had storefront windows. In ACA, we scheduled storefront windows in a window schedule. Is this possible in Revit? I know it is a wall and I will probably have to create a separate schedule for storefronts which is fine with me. I do not see an option to schedule the height of the wall though. In our window types drawing we refer to the schedule for height and width.

[Anonymous]

aren't curtain wall panels considered "walls"
when it comes to pricing them? isn't curtain
wall glazing just another wall type?

i'm sure you could put a curtain wall panel
in a window schedule as a window if you change
the panel to a generic wall and put a window
in it- and make that window the same size as the
panel- that should do it..

but i never did it that way so i can't promise
you anything..

[Alfredo_Medina · Accepted solution]

The height of a wall or curtain wall can be included in a wall schedule by creating a calculated value named Height (for example), with this formula: Area / Length

Please see attached image.

Alfredo Medina
info@planta1.com

[Anonymous]

On 4/4/2010 9:59 AM, Alfredo_Medina wrote:
> The height of a wall or curtain wall can be included in a wall schedule by creating a calculated value named Height (for example), with this formula: Area / Length
>
> Please see attached image.
>
> Alfredo Medina
> info@planta1.com


as the guy on the other end doing the storefront or curtain wall
detailing using information from the contract docs I don't see what the
use is for a schedule of storefront frames. It would be a clumsy way to
communicate dimensions or detail requirements IMO. Give me an elevation
with well communicated dimension points related to details and I'll
figure out the rest.
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Dave - DDP
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[Alfredo_Medina]

I agree. An elevation of the curtain wall with dimensions, notes, etc. will be essential. For that, the user should create an elevation that contains just the curtain wall, and then insert that elevation in the same sheet where he plans to locate the curtain wall schedule.

Alfredo Medina
info@planta1.com

[Anonymous]

Thanks,

All I really needed was to figure out the Height. It's a shame you have to do a calculated value go get a simple height of a wall! It will seem like overkill to have a schedule for my Storefront system since I only have one, but it will be good to figure this out for our template and future projects. I believe I am going to make a copy of our window tag and use that for the storefront systems. This is how we have been doing it, and I'm sure most people in our firm would like it this way.

[Anonymous]

I have to agree with Dave and Alfredo, you just can't give all the information in a schedue for storefront. An elevation is the best way to communicate your intent, so why not just bypass the schedule? Referring to storefront as a "window" is a misnomer in my opinion. Storefronts and curtainwalls are walls that you can see through. If you're interested in my method you can read more about it here:

http://www.revithorizon.com/?p=32

[Anonymous]

This method works well when tagging in plans, but when I create a Callout view of the plan, I can't find the Ghost Window that's been attached to the curtain wall.

I've made sure that all of the tag settings are turned on in my Visibility and Graphics.

Anyone have the same issue?

Thanks for the help.

[Anonymous]

Revit 2015 and you are able to schedule the "Unconnected Height"

I'm not entirely sure what version of Revit that this was introduced. 

Didnt realise this was such an old post and didnt know how to delete 😛

Paul.