Custom Curved Curtain Wall Sweep Join Problem

[Anonymous]

I am working on a project for school and our group has came up with a curved curtain wall system. The only problem is that I am unsure on how to/ if it is possible to join our interior walls to the system itself. It is a concave system. I will attach some photos to help you see what I am trying to do! Any help on this topic would be greatly appreciated!

[ToanDN]

If the original form is a mass, then create a roof by face, attach the walls to said roof, and see if it clean the wall end to match the concave curve. Hide the roof when done.

P/S: I don't have Revit now to test it myself so it is a pure speculation.

Edit: just got home and below is the screencast.  roof won't work but I use wall by face, slightly different method.

[RDAOU · Accepted solution]

@Anonymous

I wouldn't use the mass of the actual building past the Conceptual Design study, namely when one starts placing/modeling the internal building elements (walls, floors, ceilings, roof...) and the Envelop (example: Curtain Wall)...In a case similar to your building, I would use the inverted form/geometry or the belt of the building's envelop.

Screencast + Template Revit Project & Mass Family attached below

Model the inverted Mass using a Massing template as a family then load it in >> Use it to model the Curtain wall system (by face) and join the walls to it as well (with a few parameters) you should be able to clean up all walls/floors/ceilings/roof around the envelop instead of editing profiles over and over whenever the curtain wall changes curvature or radii 

[Anonymous]

Thanks for your help! I will attempt at making this work for my project. Can I use this way if I need to make say, garage door openings and a foyer. I would need to edit the mass, no?

[ToanDN]

@RDAOU  This deserves a KUDO with all caps 🙂

[RDAOU]

@ToanDN Thanks

@Anonymous i already replied to you private message with a Yes (same principle -ve mass either one for the whole envelop or u can use various masses then join then or leave them unjoined where it is more convenient....If you have more queries it would be best to keep them here on the forum so other forum members and/or visitors having similar questions may find the answer as well.