Building Curtain Walls with Revit

1h 10mIntermediate2014-11-10

Authors

Eric Wing

Director of BIM Services at C&S Companies

Course details

This course examines one of the best features Revit has to offer: curtain walls. Though they're not structurally significant, curtain walls are important to a building's design aesthetic and the comfort of its occupants. There are many different types of curtain walls out there; Revit offers just as many different ways to build them to fit your needs. Eric Wing starts this course with a look at Revit's simple, preconfigured walls, and then moves on to customizing blank curtain walls with different panel materials, mullions (load-bearing, structural supports), and nonlinear grid patterns. From there, you'll learn to create your own mullion family from scratch. Finally, graduate to massing free-form curtain walls with custom volumes, panels, and spider fittings. With Revit and these tutorials, you can create some really cool systems!

Learning objectives
Adding an imbedded storefront wall
Configuring and moving grids
Working with radial curtain walls
Adding mullions and doors
Editing the curtain wall profile
Adding framing and spider fittings
Creating custom mullions
Building a free-form mass
Creating pattern-based panels

Skills covered

RevitArchitectural VisualizationCivil EngineeringAutodesk3D ModelingProjectVisualization and Real-TimeAECProduct and ManufacturingAnimation and Illustration

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Welcome
02 - Using the exercise files

1. Predefined Curtain Walls

03 - Adding an imbedded storefront curtain wall
04 - Configuring the grid layout
05 - Moving a single curtain grid
06 - Adding a radial curtain wall with a radial top

2. Custom Curtain Walls

07 - Creating non-uniform grids
08 - Adding mullions
09 - Framing and adding a curtain-wall door
10 - Editing the curtain-wall profile
11 - Adding materials to panels
12 - Creating perimeter mullions
13 - Creating a trapezoid corner with joined curtain walls
14 - Adding framing and spider fittings

3. Custom Mullions and Panels

15 - Creating a custom mullion
16 - Applying a custom mullion to a curtain wall
17 - Creating a custom double-glazed panel
18 - Detailing mullions

4. Massing and Pattern-Based Panels

19 - Creating a free-form mass and adding panels
20 - Adding a curtain system to a massing element
21 - Creating a curved, pitched wall
22 - Creating a pattern-based panel and applying it to a free-form system

Conclusion

23 - Next steps