Make curtain wall grid lines visible in VG

[Kevin.Bell]

Curtain wall grid lines are always invisible until you mouse over them.

In complicated curtain walls, it can be very difficult to get the right grid and to understand the grid layout - as you can't see it!

Make the grid a sub category in Visibility Graphics so the user can turn them on and set their colour.

This would aid creating a complicated curtain wall a lot.

[Mike.FORM]

I 100% agree this should be a thing.

They also need to make it so that you can only select curtain grids in elevation or section when the view extends to the centerline of the curtain wall. Here is an example of an elevation that is looking away from a curtain wall but I can still select the grids because the cut line of the elevation intersects the arbitrary length of the curtain grids which is roughly 500mm from cw centerline.

[Mark_Engwirda]

200% agree, this would make things so much easier

A quick question and excuse my naivety, why are all of the components of a curtain wall  pinned by default when they are created.

Its not like you are going to accidently change something by mistake... pinning everything just seems to get in the way of making any modifications.

[Mike.FORM]

@Mark_Engwirda curtain wall mullions and panels are only pinned when they have been set by the type properties.

This allows you to make a change in the type properties to a different mullion or panel and it will change all pinned elements. If no elements were pinned then if you had a large curtain wall with one of the panels being a door and the rest glazing and you wanted to change all the glazing, Revit wouldn't know you don't want to change the door panel.

[Mark_Engwirda]

@Mike.FORM Thank you, I didn't realise that if the system panel was set to glazed that it would be unpinned by default, that's useful to know.
With that said, I don't use curtain walls as you would normally expect as in a commercial application, I only use them as a workaround where there are currently no other solutions available. Generating cabinetry is one example, screening and batten walls are another, neither are perfect solutions but  a lot better than nothing.