Revit - Scheduling Curtian Panels with Conditional Statements
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Software : Revit Architecture
Level : Beginner - Intermediate
Description : This Revit Architecture 2009 video tutorial covers how to use conditional statement when scheduling curtain panels. The techniques put forward in this video are done in an effort to avoid making different families for one curtain system. By using techniques like these, one can manage variable parts within one Revit Family while making it easier to manage a schedule. This video is part of a series I am working on, in which i hope to show ways Revit can be used for quantity take off (going back to my days as an estimator, this is so much easier). Here is a link to the source files on the forum
Topics Covered
-Scheduling shared parameters
-Calculated Values in Schedules
-Scheduling with conditional statements
-Using Parameters to Identify Family Type
Here is a link to the source files on the forum
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Based on a work at designreform.net.
Great tutorial.
Is there are a way you can apply these panels in a non orthogonal curtain wall/system? It appears that when horizontal gridlines are not running parallel with the ground plane and the vertical grids are not perpendicular, Revit is not able to create the panels. So if you create a cone shaped mass and apply a curtain system by face with the custom fin panels defined, It wouldn’t work. It would be extremely useful to use these custom fin panels on non orthogonal curtain systems and to be able to schedule the fin length as the top and bottom fins have different lengths.
unfortunately not. I think Revit is a couple of releases away (i hope) from being able to do that. For for complex geometries i usually switch to other applications. I made a video on skewing panels but i don’t think that would help you. The panels still stayed and equal parallelograms.
So for the meantime, what application would you recommend to create these complex curtain walls? In that case, Revit could just be used as a documentation tool.
We use Digital Project or detail information and Generative Components for Design Models. In an ideal world Revit would be fully integrated with Inventor and we could go between them seamlessly.
thank you 4u
Let’s brainstorm on other uses for conditional calculated values in design.
I agree this is great for filtering for estimating and mimimizing families in Revit.
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