Trouble with lattice work in the parametric window

[tharushadd]

Hi,

I am very new to Revit.

Can anyone guide me how to model a parametric window family as in the attachment. I can model everything except for the timber lattice, there in the window as a component. I just want the lattice work to be 1"x0.5" timber stripes at an 45° angle ( That doesn't have to be parametric)

[dzanta]

I would create those 4 panels as a 4 separate extrusions with a wood lattice model pattern (diagonal lines).  Ensure you align and lock the 4 sides to the reference planes that control the framework too.

[barthbradley]

Do you mean "muntins".  If so, Revit has a dozen or so Muntin Families in the OOTB library. Windows Folder=>Nested Families Folder=>Muntins Folder.

...you can also go to Pella or Marvin and download their Revit families.  Most have Muntins in them in all sorts of configurations (e.g. Prairie, Diamond, etc., etc.)

[tharushadd]

Thank you very much, but how to have a 'wood lattice model pattern'...any video tutorial on internet...so that I can follow..

thanks again

[dzanta]

after you make the 4 extrusions, select them and go to properties palette...you will see material parameter.  click inside this to assign a Model material pattern....choose the diagonal line pattern

[barthbradley]

Still trying to figure out what is being talked about here. 

Is it Lattice like this?

Or, Lattice like this (e.g. Muntins in a Diamond Pattern)?

Or, Lattice like this (e.g. Diagonal Crosshatch Surface Pattern)? 

[tharushadd]

Actually something like this....as shown in the window drawing

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[barthbradley]

I like the pattern. What is that? A screen?  

[tharushadd]

Yes a screen...

[barthbradley]

A screen???  Well now...isn't that special.  

[Anonymous]

Barthbradley,

How would you actually create a modeled parametric lattice like the wood one here?

Seems simple but anything on a diagonal always complicates things.  I need to model this exact thing for a rendering of a "lattice top wood fence" - I'm thinking it would be a nested adaptive component??

The 45 degree lattice work would need to fit inside a rectangular boundary.

[ToanDN]

I would use a material with a diagonal cross surface model pattern instead of modeling it.

[barthbradley]

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Are you talking about the wood lattice I showed above?  You could do this with a curtain wall. No panels, just mullions.  Maybe 1" x 1/2" slats, with beefier border mullion frame.  But if you are talking about the Screen you showed above, I'd find an OOTB "Metal Screen" Appearance Asset for Rendering, and then use a plain old cross hatch Surface Pattern for Elevation Views, etc.  

[Anonymous]

Yeah, that's a bummer - I had my fence all parametric and ready to go, last was the parametric lattice.  If I had started it all as conceptual massing, I probably could have done it with dividing surfaces.  Oh well, that's a headache for some other time.  Guess I'll do a .PNG material with voids.

[ToanDN]

I thought you asked about windows.  If it is a fence, just use a curtain wall with panels by a different curtain wall type, and rotate the grids 45 degrees.

Still, there is no practical reason to model the lattice. A material with cut-out should work nicely.

[barthbradley]

I think he means Curtain Walls with Empty Panels -- which is what I suggested.