Revit will not make walls that I can use for Shipping Container Architecture

[sdbender]

I do shipping container architecture. I want a profiled metal wall that looks like my shipping container wall panel in all views AND will host doors, windows, mechanical and electrical devices, etc. I am not interested in another workaround. I want this to work. I bought Revit thinking that it would be the right software for my architecture niche. More than a year in, I have become a very proficient user but can't find any way to answer my needs in the software. This is costing me a lot of time/money in lost productivity and work-around experimentation.

Current model in Revit 2017.2

Autodesk, please make it possible to have wall types that can be based on profiles, even as this as 2 millimeters. Or make it possible for me to host doors and windows (that create requisite voids) on other Revit elements, like generic models so that I can use imported geometry. Thank you.

Things I have tried:

1.  Making a basic wall and using a profile to create a repetitive reveal on one side.

Drawbacks:

• Only looks like the container wall panel on one side.
• Creates strange artifacts because of interference with the profile/reveal around the edges of hosted elements (doors and windows).

2.  Making a curtain wall using a panel profile.

Drawbacks:

• Cannot host doors, windows, etc.
• Difficult to keep an accurate position.

3. Using imported geometry from Sketchup (or another modeler), placing generic Revit walls in this geometry and hiding them in views then hosting the elements to the hidden walls. 

Drawbacks:

• Difficult to manage visibility.
• Must use solid filled regions to mask the panels where they show up in plans, elevations, sections, etc.

Here is an example of a model that has been created using all of the above-mentioned workarounds. I lost weeks trying to make the document set read properly.

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[Anonymous]

Mr. Bradly, I would be interested in learning how you did this? I'm still learning the in's and out's of working with revit families and this is something I have yet to learn. 

Thanks in advance.

[maulecaro]

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@barthbradley wrote:

This shipping container family works great in an In-Place Component Family (Wall Category). It hosts Windows and Doors just fine. Is it a workaround? Heck, whatever you want to called it, it behaves like a Wall -- and it took less time to create than writing this post. I had the shipping container family in my Library.  

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Hi!  At the moment I'm just beginning a fully shipping container based project, and I'm extremely interested in learning more of this container In-Place Component Family.  You mentioned you had this family in your Library - where did you find it?  Or was it you created this family as a whole?  I can't find it within my Library, and I need everything from walls, to doors, etc.  Any tips/guidance on this topic will be really appreciated!  Thanks!

[barthbradley]

I think this is where I got the original family...

https://www.arcat.com/company/arcat-inc-30568/bim/-storage-container-67281

[maulecaro]

This is great!  Thanks - I'll play around with it and let you know how things work out!  Definitely your help is very appreciated.

[urtfools]

Heated! What a thread, I grabbed some popcorn! Lol Thanks for all the info folks, I'm trying to do something similar but I thought I'd get some insight into what other's were working on but instead I stumbled upon AutoDesk forum gold!

[Anonymous]

hello, would you be able to send me this file?

[Anonymous]

Same Here!  I'm also struggling with all of the above. I am getting the same results as sdbender. I would greatly appreciate a copy of that project/family file 

[ram50111]

Hello, Can you upload the file of for this container wall? It will help me out greatly. 

[nalunutz]

would you share your file?

been trying to find a wall family or something i could easily put doors and windows

let me know

thanks

[robat3QDN8W]

hello there do you still have that container family if you do could you send me an email at robat3@morgan.edu i want to make a container house 

[robat3QDN8W]

hello there I am looking for the shipping container file to create a container house in Revit. Could you please let me know if you still have the family