Hi was wondering if anybody can help me. I am trying to make a metal cladding as a wall inside Revit. It has a complex curve structure. Rhino can’t reproduce as a wall inside Revit. What would be the best solution? This is a challenge
Hi Richard. The title of your post wasn’t very descriptive, so I changed it.
There are actually a few options here. It all depends on how you are using this, like the level of detail the size of the project etc. Materials (is this perforated?)
Can you tell us a little bit more about the intent and level of detail you’re looking for?
Are these panels being vertical or horizontal? Are you gonna have a hat channel of some sort behind it. What is your scope?
Hi Japhy
Sorry, I was a bit vague
What I am trying to accomplish is an exterior metal cladding in Revit using Rhino Insite Revit 2026 and Grasshopper. Making a separate cladding wall gives me the option to join this wall with another wall inside Revit.
The metal cladding is vertical to a height specified through Revit parameters.
The length of the cladding would be a modular length ie) Length divided by the number of sheets, i.e., length say 4.25m/1800mm sheet lengths.= 2.36 Sheets over a wall length of (4.25m)
I have set up a Revit independent wall as T-Rib = 10mm width, shown in the diagram. The metal profile is as shown in the Rhino file.
If this all works, I should be able to add windows into this wall combination without using Revit Boolean operations.
What and how would you recommend going about it?
Any help would be appreciated.
@Richard_Zgierski_Bor You may wanna look into following thread. There is trick to create wall families using wall family template
It really depends on LOD you are needing. A typical revit wall with structure and gyp board is going to be best suited for inserting a window. Multiple layers of curtain wall for doing the panelization and the trims can work but it’s going to be a bit to set up and maintain.
Creating generic model families of your wall components as well as trims is probably going to be the best way to go if I understand your process correctly.
Thanks Japhy
I know that I can set it up in Revit, but I was wanting to set it up in Grashopper, that was my original question
You would control the advanced families via Rhino.Inside.Revit. The proposed wall as a profile is going to be problematic in a number of ways, even if done as a cw panel.