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scgillin

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I am by no means an expert in curtain walls in either application but I am brand new to curtain walls in Revit.

So my question is: In ACA you could have multiple rule based grids in a curtain wall system in order to reduce the amount of custom or unique instances, of mullions or spandrels, etc. on the curtain wall system.In Revit it seems that you can have only 1 horizontal grid and only 1 vertical grid based on rules for that specific curtain wall type. For any grids that fall into that specific rule you must use the grid tool to manually place all grid lines graphically.Which is nice because you can see what you are actually doing but it does not apply those lines to the curtain wall type and so for every floor level, for example, you would have to manually place the same lines.

Am I missing something? Is this in fact the case? Am I just not thinking out of the box enough and maybe I should be looking at nested curtain walls etc. Thanks for your help. (Revit Arch 2008-09)

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