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Necessary improvements for curtain walls

Necessary improvements for curtain walls

The curtain walls in Revit need improvements, especially when using with groups and phasing:

 

1) When a curtain wall is copied / mirrored into another wall, it does not cut the wall automatically as it would when drawing a new one. Using the cut function does not seem to work as the curtain wall cannot be selected. There should be an option where a (copied) curtain wall always cuts the wall it's placed in, so we don't have to manually join or cut each element seperately.

 

2) When a curtain wall is in a group and has been set to a specific phasing filter, when copying this group the phasing is reset to default setting, which is annoying because it defeats the whole purpose of a group. 

 

3) Curtain panels and mullions cannot have their own phasing filter, which is very frustrating. For example, for renovation projects it is common that a door needs to be replaced or gets a different color, while the mullions stay the same. Right now we need to duplicate the entire curtain wall, which makes the Revit file unneccesarily heavier.

 

4) There are situations where two mullions come together in a 45 degree angle, but in Revit we can only choose between a vertical or horizontal join.

 

Another thing related to windows:

5) There should be an option to select elements within a family to override its graphics. For example, sometimes there are elements behind glass that makes the view confusing, so you want to make all glass opaque in section / facade views. This works fine for glass curtain panels, but not for families. Using far clipping or depth cueing is not a solution as then it affects everything in the background, when only elements inside the building should be affected. Making the material itself opaque is also not possible, as this affects 3D views and export files (that I use for Lumion and Autodesk Viewer) aswell.

 

 

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