Prefabricated panel. Best working practice?

[nathaniel.mcmahon]

Looking into a project to design using prefabricated structural panels. looking into various methods and tolls but wondering what solutions people have used and had success with. Curtain walls.

Walls split into parts and hosting other walls?

Ideally we'd have Generic panel families including MEP, timber frame, insulation, windows and doors etc. Swappable in a 2.4m grid system. Really just requiring hosting points for the panels. 

[Yien_Chao · Accepted solution]

can you show images or share a revit file?

for prefab curtain panel, i find wha works best was adaptive component, but maybe is overkill for your needs.

[ToanDN · Accepted solution]

Create them as custom curtain panel families/types so that you can swap types inside a curtain wall grid system set to 2.4m module.

[nathaniel.mcmahon]

Thanks. So there's no real limitation on whats inside curtain wall family, it's not another wall type family. For some reason I though it could only host walls.

[nathaniel.mcmahon]

Little further along. I've made a mass with slopped almost vertical roof. Made a curtain system that bad in the mass face and have created a decent million/frame for it. But just noticed that I can't have wall families in a curtain system which is a real drag. Not sure why I can't as I can have walls set to sloped mass faces. I'm using 2018 so maybe this has changed. I might just have to have both a wall and a curtain system set to the mass face and then try to align to eachothers elements via reference planes, but not sure how that will work.