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SCOTTY V

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Hello All, 

I am attempting to nest a void in a curtain wall panel with the intention of creating a screen.  Using voids inplace seems to slow the family down so I was hoping a could nest a void into the family.  I am using a Generic Model to make the void, and I have tried adding it to my curtain wall panel with no luck.  Is there something else I should be doing to make this work?  I've used revit for a long time now but I've never had a lot of success with making families.

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Scott 

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TomDorner

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OK, first question, do you really need to model screens?  What kind of spacing are we talking about?  Could you accomplish the desired effect with a surface pattern and matching texture if you need to render?

If the pattern is large enough I would simply nest a new type of curtain wall into the host curtain wall and create mullions for the screen and set the panel type to empty.

If you provide a sketch or some detail maybe we can take a stab at creating a sample file. 

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SCOTTY V

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Thanks Tom, 

Yes you're right normally a pattern would suffice to show screening, however I wanted to test the effects of Perforated steel screening ( http://www.onlinemetals.com/prodimg/perforated.jpg )  I would just like to make panels that as basicly this.  It may be a really bad idea (model lag and speed) I dont know till I try. 

The idea was shot down as a design option for the project I am working on about 10mins ago, but I'd still like to figure out how to do it.

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Why don't you just apply that material? In Revit materials>Metal you have that kind of texture...

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