Empty System Panel is missing (Revit 2017)

[Anonymous]

Hello,

In the past I have managed to create a curtain wall with Empty System Panels. This allowed me to attach the CW to a roof that was not parallel to any of the levels:

This is the state of the Family tree in the default template for Revit 2014:

As you can see above the Empty System Panel is available.

I have since upgraded to Revit 2017 and now the Empty System Panel is no longer available:

This makes my design work pretty hard and I don't know how to resolve this problem. If anyone know what's going on please help.

cheers,
-tomek

[Anonymous]

Update: Report has been logged by Autodesk. Hopefully get a fix sometime around the next release or sooner.

[josejesus5]

Thank you!
You just saved my life!

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@Anonymous wrote:

Hi everyone, yeah seems like others confused the Empty System Panel to M_Empty Panel. Like Tomek mentioned, they behave differently, like for example, creating wall profile, attached to roof, etc. I found it odd in Revit 2016 onward, this system panel was removed from the Australia library and possibly from other OOTB libraries as well. Anyhow, if you want to load the empty system panel to you project, you can still find it from Revit 2015 version. Create a new project > curtain wall > change the panel into empty panel > upgrade the version > copy and then paste to your project.

I've already attached the Revit file in case you don't have Revit 2015.

Edit post:

After thorough investigation of the templates, the empty system panel is still loaded on Revit 2017 US Metric (DefaultMetric.rte) and US Imperial (default.rte) libraries.

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[Anonymous]

Thank you. It is so helpful!

[Anonymous]

Thank you, sir. No bull**** just work. WELL DONE 

[Anonymous]

You have solved my problem as well. Thank you very much!

[onlinebuildingreports]

Thanks Melina,

Your answer to the empty panel question assisted me as well. Cheers

Regards Philip

[jbrr27]

This is still happening in Revit 2024!  Autodesk, not getting such a basic bug fixed in 7 years is inexcusable!

[darosa_freire]

Perhaps it's not a good solution but I made a panel with an empty extrusion and I use it. 
Regards.
Marvio