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psemrau

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I have a curtain wall that behaves erratically.

It is a balcony window, and has a sliding door on it.

On some floors it works perfectly, on other floors it adds a grid line + mullion (shown in red), that shrinks the door.  Even if you delete the whole system and copy the one below (the one that works) the weird mullion is added.  I managed to exclude the grid segments and delete mullions and make it sort of work... but they keep coming back...

This is driving me nuts...

THANKS!

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When you copy, do you get any warnings or error messages?  When you copy up, do you copy up in elevation view or do you use the "Paste Aligned > Select Levels By name"?

Are you saying that you delete that grid line and it just comes back?  That is an odd one.

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10 years later and I'm encountering this problem in Revit 2018...  except it's a horizontal grid for my situation..  The curtain wall type is set to Fixed @ 1.  This seems to happen whenever I move the curtain wall or copy it..  

Is this one of those things they just don't consider a big deal and haven't addressed it?

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WWHub

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I think this is just a process error.  You say "The curtain wall type is set to Fixed @ 1.".  I'm not sure what you mean by that.  CW doors adapt automatically to any grid spacing horizontal and vertical.   If you are using a CW type that has fixed spacings, that is probably you problem.  Every new instance will use that spacing.  I prefer to use undefined CW types for a single door.

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"You say "The curtain wall type is set to Fixed @ 1.".  I'm not sure what you mean by that"

The horizontal grid was set to 'fixed number: 1'  

I'll agree with process error here.  Changing the existing wall grid to None seemed to do the trick for not adding the center grid when I move or copy the CW.  However, creating a new CW of the same type to place in another location, I'll lose my transom above..  Guess it's not a big deal, just slighting annoying..

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You should be able to copy any non defined CW's (no preset settings at all) to multiple locations and have an exact model copy.  I do this all the time.  

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