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mflure

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Greetings all,

 I'm farily new to Revit and I like what I see but knowing is another matter, which after I post this will probablly make me look crazy. but here it goes. 

Our firm is not only a Architectural design firm but we are also a Reality investment & development corp.  I'm trying to model a existing building (that's been hand drafted old school) into Revit and I'm wondering what the best way to approach / solve this problem.  Attached is a Wall Section and Elevation.  The wall is composed of a wall, angled furr out of that wall and storefront.  I thought I could make a stacked wall system with a profile, and two wall types, but to my surprise I cannot use any storefront/curtain walls.  I'm probabbly going at this all wrong with a wall style but then again there's probabbly something im missing.  Your help is greatly appreciated.

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Michael Flure

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TomDorner

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There are a number of ways yu could approach this.  How you do it all depends on what you are trying to accomplish with the model.  Are you just looking to get the exterior wall boundries in the correct place and don't care about the the components that make up the shape.  Or are you trying to build a literal model of the existing building with all the wall, soffits and stuff that make up the wall section?

If you are just trying to get the shape, then a wall with sweeps can do the trick.  I would then use an embedded curtain wall for the window strips.  If you want the literal model, then you have to build all the parts you see in the hand drawn section. 

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mflure

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Ok.. Im starting to understand it.  I need to just construct the model so I get the walls right since all of the structure is there I don't need that.  The only problem I'm having is how to actually embed the storefront.  I can cut the geometry but I can't seem to join them without grouping them.

But on another note if I was to model everything out so i had some detail or reportable information in schedules that seems like it would be very very tricky since I would have to model out a angled wall run to try and tap into a existing wall?  Or am I looking at it from the wrong perspective.  I hate it when old school CAD gets in the way of new ways of thinking <GRIN>

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Curtain walls have a property that can be set so they automatically embed in the host wall.  See the attached image.

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mflure

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AhhhhHaaaaa, Now Im understanding it.  Too bad there isnt a way just to complile a wall together so you'd just draw one wall and done, but I guess that would be in another version. 

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 Mike

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^^^ i think it does that.

I had a whole model made with generic walls that i named something.  Later i came in and modified that wall family and bam, all of them changed for m.

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