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Altruant

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Hi,

I am trying to model a rock wall in Revit 2011. Is there an easy way to achieve the following with curtain walling? Is it possible to model a 20m x 4m wall without slowing revit to a tortoise?

I'm just currently trying to get a few idea how to achieve it quickly without too much pain.

Many thanks

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WWHub

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I would not use a curtain wall for this.

Most of the time, materials are best represented by image files and bump files to create the texture.  What you are showing has too great of a texture to do this unless your views are at a distance. 

And I think that is really the question.  If most views are not closeup, then I would still use the normal process.  If you do have some special rendered views that require more intense modeling, then I would first consider just adding the textures in photoshop or something like that.

You could look at a face-based family that could be applied where you need this look but I would not do it for the entire model.

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Whilst I wouldn't recommend modelling this and would use a texture.  It is possible to model using the massing tools and a curtain panel pattern based family.

Checkout Zachory Kron's blog for some cool examples. http://buildz.blogspot.com/ 

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