Hi all,
I have to model a custom and parametric skylight family for my company.
I would like to know if in your opinion it is better to model the family as a Family:Window or as a Generic model: Roof based.
The family will be quite simple, no nested families.
Any suggestion?
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Why not a roof based or faca based window family?
You can change the generic roof based to a window roof based family via tge family's category button.
I'd vote Window.
I would definitely find a specific (not generic) Category for it though. You could also put it under Specialty Equipment. I've seen Skylights categorized this way as well. Solatubes for example.
A good way is see how manufacturers created theirs.
https://www.veluxusa.com/professional/products/modular-skylights/cad-bim/revit
@XXalessio.amodioXX wrote:
is better to model the family as a Family:Window or as a Generic model: Roof based.
Are you asking about the template to use (e.g. rft)? Wall Based vs. Roof Based? Well, if it's a Skylight, I doubt it would ever be hosted to a Wall, which is the Window.rft host. If this is your question, and the two choices are Wall or Roof Host, I'd definitely vote Roof (e.g. "Generic Model roof based.rft"). Even better, would be to choose a "FACE" as a host, as in "Generic Model Face Based.rte". Understand, that no matter what Template you create the Family from, you can always change the Category of the Family. Bottom line: I would build the family in "Generic Model Face Based.rte", and then recategorize the Family to "Window".
Or Generic Model with Workplane based checked and Always vertical unchecked and change to window category.
History
Open skylights were used in Ancient Roman architecture, such as the oculus of the Pantheon. Glazed 'closed' skylights have been in use since the Industrial Revolution made advances in glass production manufacturing. Mass production units since the mid-20th century have brought skylights to many uses and contexts. Energy conservation has brought new motivation, design innovation, transmission options, and efficiency rating systems for skylights.
Prior to the Industrial Revolution, it was France that probably had the leading technology in architectural glass. One of the earliest forms of the glass skylight can be seen at the Palace of Versailles in the Galerie des Batailles, which was added onto the existing palace by Louis Philippe in the year 1830. Another form that displays early sky lighting technology is the Halle aux blés (Paris) built in 1763-67. This form of natural overhead lighting allowed for illumination while decoration could cover the entire interior wall, and it is the option least obstructed by other buildings. This means that sky lighting as we know it, in many forms today, was probably pioneered in France during the early 18th century or late 17th century. According to architectural glass, the earliest functional skylights would have been formed by either glass casting, crown glass (window), cylinder blown sheet, and machine drawn cylinder sheet, or fourcault process.
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