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i was worndeing if howtocrayea sreen in revit for a proch
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Just use the wall tool, using an appropriate material setting. Or same material using the massing tools if you're concerned about wall scheduling in the future. Either way is easy.
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ok well so i could se this to create a screened in porch? also what material would be an ideal choice and would i have to do this in a wal profile?
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A screened in porch would probably be best simply with the wall tool. If you don't want the wall to reach a second storey level, set a height (top offset) from your bottom offset in the wall's parameters.
(This can be done before or after you create the wall.)
Material - it depends how you want it to look! Brick, rendered, timber palings, whatever! Have a 'flick' through your materials list and see what looks good to you.
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so if i did the wall, how owuld i make it so that it looks screened in?
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Personally i'd either use a railing or a curtain wall to achieve this.
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In answer to your question regarding the material used for the screen, I suggest you take my tutorial about transparency mapping.
http://www.revitcity.com/tutorials/transparency_mapping/tutorial.php
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"Personally i'd either use a railing or a curtain wall to achieve this."
would i just make the railing tall?
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Make it as big as it needs to be. If it needs to attach to things or will vary in height use a curtain wall...
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ok i think i understand how this is supposed to work..can iput doors on a curtain wall?
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Certainly can. They just work differently you have to swap the panel out for a specially created curtain wall door or swap out a panel for a wall then place a normal door...
Do a search on some of the curtain wall threads, they should give you a good idea.
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ok thanks i ll try. to me it sounds difficult doing curtaun walls. btw, which one would you recremend, store front, or the other two types?
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Here's a screened porch I've been designing.
I used a Screen pattern material file I found on revitcity...same with the 3-tab shingle pattern on the roof in this view.
I used a curtain wall, solid & screened panels, a door is placed in the wall (still designing the door family from the mfr catalog). As was previously stated I adjusted the transparency setting so we can view thru the screen and also conduct sun/shadow studies with some tree options also contained in a Revit design options.
In Elevation Views, the screen is not transparent (acts like window glass in elevation)
Actually, I have 3 Revit design options for this space...one is this screen option vs a full insulated wall vs completely open but covered patio space.
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The best solution imho is like Mr spot said, use railing!
easy to use, you can define and change profiles and heights.
you can still insert a door, just create a clear wall insert the door and set the lenght of the door to the opening size, you won't see it.
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if you feel like trying something a little harder, try Mr. Spot tutorial about nested array families. you can create a fully parametric screen family. 
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thanks, i used Mr. Spots idea of using railings. and im having trouble downloading pattern
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