Revit - Pattern Based Curtain Panel Family
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Software: Autodesk Revit 2010
Description:In this Revit Architecture 2010 Training video we’re going to take a look at the pattern based curtain panel family. I learned this technique on Zack Krons’s blog, buildz, this post in particular. The basic premise is to create reference points on each point within the panel so the outside edge of the panel projects perpendicular to the normal of the host surface.
Disclaimer: This video is a section of my class Rethinking BIM at Columbia’s GSAPP so the sound is a bit different and you might hear me address students a few times 
Topics Covered:
- Pattern Based Curtain Panel Families
- Divided Surfaces
- Conceptual Massing Environment
- Reference Points
- 3d snapping
Here is Zach’s Video (mine is not very different, I was showings students and am posting the video for them):
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What screen resolution do you use to record your videos?….
1280 x 720
I was looking just for a tutorial like this. Since I started learning revit with your tutorials my proficiency with it has really been enhanced! I have just one thing that I cant seem to really manage with this software; If i want to import a rhino geometry into revit and then apply it to a curtain panel like the one from this tutorial, what is the best technique to adopt? Specially what I am trying to achieve is the possibility to add materials to this geometry for both 2d and rendering purposes! Could you try and integrate the importing of a rhino file in the next tutorial that you were talking about?!?!? I know that you already covered some of these topics in past tutorials, but this is a bit more complex matter!
I hope you can help me on this one!
Thanks
Fabio
Import .sat, and the rhino geometry comes in very clean. Import the object as a mass and you’ll be able to add walls, roofs, etc…
Dave,
Very timely video. After feeling my way through Revit for the last 6 months I did the ‘official’ Autodesk training over a couple of days a week ago. However I came across this exact problem soon after getting back into it.
The work flow between Rhino and Revit is a very appealing one and is starting to reveal itself as one of the best methods to document complex 3d geometry. If the pattern tools could now advance as well I’d be a very happy camper. Were trying to do a panel that degrades in size over a smaller section of the panel, still based on the same panel but each one gets smaller as it moves from one end to the other. Or even swapping between a number of different modules with in the one pattern would be quite useful as well.
Thanks again for the tut.
Mr David as always thank you for video tutorial. One thing has been driving me nuts is how to place spanish roof clay tiles on a roof. I’ve spent months trying different ways but no acceptable results. I looke all over the net but no info. There is 2 videos but they don’t give you a good result. Thanks
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I clearly understood Your tutorial. Thank you!!
Thank you very much from Germany! That is a wonderful solution for a big problem. Thanks!