Revit Family for a Hanging Fabric Curtain

[SinzyPsyPenguin]

Hi all

This is a weird one, I have been searching all day for a family that is NOT a curtain wall, but rather a hanging FABRIC curtain...

Revit city keeps kicking me back to the "about us" page (annoying much)!!! and it seems impossible to find the correct format of an rfa or rvt.

Does anybody know where I could find this? 

Thanks 🙂

Sinead

[rodrigo.bezerra]

Hi

In Autodesk Seek, looking for "shades", you can find some matches.

You can also try this keyword in Arcat.

Regards

[SinzyPsyPenguin]

Hi Rodrigo

Thanks very much, but those are shades/blinds. No actual curtains like in the example below. And still Revit City is behaving badly!!!! 

If there is anybody elsee out there who has a suggestion or even has an available model that they could email to me, Iy would be much appreciated!!

Sinead Turner

Interior Designer

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

http://www.arcat.com/bim/divs/Architectural-Finish-Components-Curtains.shtml

[Anonymous]

"http://www.arcat.com/bim/divs/Architectural-Finish-Components-Curtains.shtml"

[Alfredo_Medina]

How many times have we read that sentence in forums? "I have been searching all day", or "I have been Googling all day"? Many, many, many times more than "I have been trying all day".

[Sahay_R · Accepted solution]

My personal favorite- a line based generic model. Nest a wavy line family in it, apply a formula driven parametric array. It is simply beauteous.

[PijPiwo · Accepted solution]

Take a look in here.

[Anonymous]

Hi Sahay_R, 

can you give an example of how you would write an array based formula? i do not understand how or what to write, if relevant, it is for a curved surface. 

thank you, 

Chloe

[ToanDN]

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@Anonymous wrote:

Hi Sahay_R, 

can you give an example of how you would write an array based formula? i do not understand how or what to write, if relevant, it is for a curved surface. 

thank you, 

Chloe

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For curved curtains I would go with Curtain Wall, Railing, Adaptive family, than a generic family with formula/array.

[Sahay_R]

@Anonymous

I would start by creating the curve in a generic model template. Make sure that there is a reference plan at each end of the curve - that will provide a reference for the array

Then I would start a new family in a line based generic model template.

Insert the curve family. Create an array with two array items. Dimension the distance between the reference planes that came in along with the curve. Give it a distance based parameter - cal it Array Distance.

The family comes with a built in Length parameter. The next step would be to calculate the number of arrayed objects. To do that, apply a parameter to the number of objects in the array and cal it Array Number.

The formula you will write will be 

Array Number = Length/Array Distance

So  when you click at the first and last point of the desired array and set the value for Array Distance. Revit will calculate and place the required number of instances.

[Corsten.Au]

Hi

1. Model the Fabric Curtain... the geometry should not be that difficult to model

2. apply Fabric material ..

Best luck..

[GvBeers]

Thx for you're useful comment. But if there is no point to start from where to start.

[AzWoodWarrior]

Learn Autodesk's Maya- Create a series of curves, use the loft command. Then when you discover how MUCH EASIER it is to model inside Maya you will start wondering why can't the modeling workflow in Revit be a bit more similar to Maya. It's 10x Easier!!!! I would love the ability to jump into Maya model some furniture and import it. But as far as I know Revit doesn't support .mb file type. Revit is awesome software, and having come from a 20 year career as a carpenter intuitive to use. But some of the drafting and modeling abilities are tragic. Why tragic? Because they have the same parent company. I am a huge fan of Autodesk, it's why my laptop has a sticker that says Autodesk "Make anything"  but why can't they come together as a whole and take the best from all the different software and integrate it into all the different platforms-----End of rant

[JavadHamidi]

Watch this tutorial

https://youtu.be/Dws_fMBih5w