Horizontal Louver Family

[sstattelman4GLLM]

I don't have much experience making custom families, but I am trying to figure out how to create a double skin facade with a horizontal louver system in the middle all in one family. I found this video online, but want a way to create a louver system along with the glazing system that can be placed all at once. I would also like to be able to change the number of louvers as well as the angle. Any help is appreciated! (video I was talking about linked below)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxG1Oi1G16U&ab_channel=BalkanArchitect

I also added a picture to show what I mean.

[sstattelman4GLLM]

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[ToanDN · Accepted solution]

Use a curtain wall with a custom profile for the horizontal slats. Set the spacing as you need and set the panel to empty system panel type.

https://www.cadlinecommunity.co.uk/hc/en-us/articles/115004516685-Revit-2018-Curtain-Walls-with-Louv...

[sstattelman4GLLM]

Great this is much simpler than I expected! For the glass I was talking about above, would the simplest solution be to add a glass wall to the interior and exterior and not worry about joining them as one family? Also I'm assuming to create different Louver angles I should do the same steps but create multiple curtain wall louvers that each have different angles?

[syman2000 · Accepted solution]

Hope this is what you are looking for

[sstattelman4GLLM]

This is exactly what I was looking for, is there a way to change the louver size? Sorry if it's something obvious I am missing, as I am new to using families.

[syman2000]

Yes you can. Go to edit the family type and change the louver depth

[sstattelman4GLLM]

Oh wow I was really overthinking it going into the family itself haha, thanks so much!

[sstattelman4GLLM]

One more quick question that I've been struggling with. So the louvers as is do not overlap; however, I am trying to make a 16" wide panels that slightly overlap say about 0.5" but I'm unsure what parameters to change to make this happen.

[syman2000]

Edit the family type and change the parameter Frame Depth to 16".

[sstattelman4GLLM]

I tried that but it doesn't seem to work as I still get these gaps between the panel.. Maybe I'm doing something wrong here, not sure.

[syman2000]

You want to change the exterior offset. 0 means the exterior edge will be move inward. If you want to set it to center, it will be half of the frame width. Just play around with it.

[sstattelman4GLLM]

I think I was a little confusing before, but I'm looking for a setting that would make the louver panels themselves overlap. As the offsets just change the overall family positioning not the louvers positioning or spacing.

Edit: I also tried changing the gap offset as this is what needs to be changed, but it seems the smaller I make the gap the smaller the panels get as they must be linked parametrically. I'm currently doing research on how to edit a family type haha. 

[syman2000]

If you want the louver overlap, remove the gap formula. Right now the gap is control by louver depth divide by 2. Removing this gives you ability to change this value.

Once you have gap remove formula, you should have the ability to overlap them.

[syman2000 · Accepted solution]

Scrap my previous comment. I've added a new parameter to control the overlapping. See updated family

[sstattelman4GLLM]

Wow! Thanks so much! I didn't realize the power Revit has to do parametric modeling like this. I'm going to start looking into doing more with families in the future as I don't fully understand them (clearly haha). Thanks for all your help again!