Revit Architecture: A guide to Curtain Walls

Introduction

In Revit, Curtain Walls are a very special type of system family. Please don’t confuse them with the “Basic Wall” type of system family. It is very tempting to start with a “pre-defined Curtain Wall”. However in this tutorial I am going to show you how to build your Revit Curtain Wall fro scratch. That way will you how they go together and consequently, be able to back-ward engineer a pre-defined one should you need to.

Unit Agenda

  1. What constitutes a Curtain Wall in Revit?
  2. Building a Curtain Wall from scratch
  3. Curtain Grid Lines
  4. Curtain Panels
  5. Mullions
  6. Combining Curtain Panels
  7. Loading additional Panel Families
  8. Doors and opening lights in Curtain Walls
  9. Embedding Curtain Walls
  10. Going around corners
  11. Pre-defined Curtain Walls

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What constitutes a Curtain Wall in Revit?

In Revit, a Curtain Wall is (and more accurately “can be”) comprised of the following elements (please refer to the image…

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