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LyGuy

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I have a bunch of Curtain Wall Panels (CWP) built mainly using Sweeps for the mullions, head, sill and transoms. In real life they are aluminum extrusions created from different profiles. I already have these as a library of Profile families.

Left Mullion is a Sweep created using Profile A family, right mullion is another Sweep created using Profile B, the head and sill using Profile C, D , etc, etc.

 My question is can these Profiles and the Sweep’s length be scheduled in the project without extra parameters?

 My current workaround is assigning each  Sweep in the CWP with a Material that corresponds to its profile. So left mullion (using Profile A) will have a material called Profile A. Next I create a reporting Length parameter that reports the length of the sweep. Then in the project I am able to schedule all extrusions using Profile A along with their individual lengths by creating a Material Takeoff Schedule.

 All that works fine UNTIL the CWP gets more complicated. In one project, some of the CWP will require 3 transoms using Profile C for example. These transoms can vary in length. So using the same reporting Length parameter does not work (won’t let you report 2 different things). I am forced to created new reporting Length parameters for each different length extrusions even though they are using the same Profile. That in turn adds more columns in my schedule which is not good for sorting, filtering, etc. Therein lies the problem. That’s why I wonder if I can just schedule nested Profiles and Sweeps in a CWP natively without a million shared parameters and ugly schedules.

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Why?  Why not use the built in CW system?

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Because if this works there's more control this way. I simplified my curtain wall frame in the previous post, giving it just left and rigt mullion, head, sill and transom,  but there can be anywhere between 4-20 extrusions that I need to schedule in a single frame, then multiple that by hundreds for a typical high rise. 

Also using the native mullion system doesn't allow for more complex customization. For example, there can be an additional vertical extrusion called a 'fin' that attaches to a mullion. If I use the curtain grid and use Profile A for the mullion, I'd have to make a profile that has both mullion + fin in one, which would not be good because sometimes the fin will be a different overall length than the mullion. There are several cases like this for horizontal extrusions as well, that fit inside between the mullions but don't go the whole width. Now imagine trying to manage that for 100's of frames on the project level. 

So my question remains, is there a method to schedule nested Profile and Sweep's lengths inside a CWP family without extra parameters?

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