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BYEBYECAD

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Hello RevitCity community:

 I'm a recently converted Revit user (2 weeks) and I'm learning it only through blogs and video postings. So far I'm doing great with my first project in revit and I've done a lot, but I just stumble with a problem that I can seem to solve. 

I'm trying to create a curtain wall. I drew the gridlines with no problem on an empty piece of glass . Then I tried to add a mullion and revit says "no mullion family has been added to the project.Would you like to load one now? I said yes, then it took me to the library, then I chose profile, curtain wall and then pick the Curtain Wall-Rectangular-Center file.  Then when I tried to add a mullion ask for the same question again. 

What am I doing wrong? I know it may be something basic but I can figure it out

Thank you for the help

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TomDorner

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Mullions are system families that cannot exist outside the project.  If they have been deleted from your template that started the project or from the project itself, you will have to load them in from another project.  Once a mullion is loaded into the project, only then can it be assigned a custom profile which is nothing more than a 2D line family.  Even then only rectangular and circular mullions can use the mullion profile.  Other mullion types such as corner will not accept a mullion profile.

To fix your problem, start a new project with the default Revit template.  Create a curtain wall in the new project and place some mullions on it.  Then select the curtain wall [hint: just the wall not the mullions and grids as those elements are hosted to the curtain wall itself]  Copy the curtain wall to the clipboard.  Switch to your real project and paste the clipboard with the curtain wall in. [hint: hit the finish button on the options bar]

Once you have the curtain wall in your real project you may delete it.  You should now have mullions in your project that you can modify/duplicate. 

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thanks,it worked for me too

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This worked for me too! Thanks!

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