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bitslap

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Hi,  I have looked through the curtain wall posts and this seems specific.

I have created a curtain wall of horizontal mullions to create a slatted fence panel.

I then created another curtain wall and used the initial as a panel, setting vertical mullions as fence posts.

My multi-category material takeoff includes everything in my project except for this curtain wall.  I have placed a gate in the wall which does schedule, even though the remainder does not.

I created a simple wall schedule which did show the info I needed, and a curtain panel schedule which showed even more.

What I am wondering is how to create a curtain wall as slatted fence that will show wall area in multi-category material takeoff?

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You are doing a fence, not a wall so the results will probably not fit what you want.

You are confusing walls with elements in the wall.  A wall schedule will give you the total area of the wall, not individual elements.   A panel schedule will give you the panels, in this case EMPTY SYSTEM PANELS.  I believe panel area may be to where the poanel ends and that is defined by the mullion.

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Thanks for your perspective WWHub. It was all very confusing, but makes sense now.

You can get curtain panel areas into the multi-category takeoff, but not curtain walls or mullions.

The issue I was having was that I had made my curtain panel out of a curtain wall of mullions - The perfect mistake!

I inserted the louvre system from this thread http://www.revitcity.com/forums.php?action=viewthread&thread_id=31382 but it broke the curtain wall.  Obviously there is a way to create a parametric array for use as a curtain panel, and a lot of ways to stuff it up.

If I ever get it right, I will post here.

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