I’m trying to generate a curved curtain wall with diagonal mullions. This is not only possible with planar walls in Revit, so I started a grasshopper workaround but can’t seem to import my curtain wall once I’ve modelled it.
Any ideas on how to do this?
Diagonal CW Grid.gh (17.9 KB)
2023-10-30 - CW Study_Detached v2.rvt (14.2 MB)
Sorry I should add that I have tried to important the curtain wall below and I get issues saying that it’s not planar. Not sure how to get around this
I’ll post this again here. This is tricky geometry for Revit, you may have to go the direct shape route.
Not native curtain walls but gets you closer.
Do you think it’s easier to solve in Revit or Rhino??
Depends on the goal. If you’re looking to fabricate and make this real Rhino all the way. If this is for schematic design either should work, depending on the deliverables.
Just want to start by saying thanks for all your help Japhy. You always have great answers.
This is central to our design, so it needs to be something we can carry to CDs. However, the Revit method fails me when it comes to the pattern. I can’t seem to import a custom pattern in “Curtain Panel Pattern Based Family”.
I’m unsure if this is where adaptive components would come in hand.
Adaptive components are certainly an option.
Here’s an adaptive component example in Revit 2022 i did recently. Instead of the Revit Grids you would want to form the grid (and placement points) in Grasshopper/Rhino.
RiR-CurtainWall-Adaptive.zip (6.4 MB)
Hi Japhy,
I couldn’t understand the logic of the example file you sent me. The CW in your file is planar, were grids skewed in revit then? If that’s the case why were the panels created in Rhino? Sorry if I’m missing the logic here.
I’ve updated my script and generated the desired panels in rhino. However, I can’t seem to get any of the geometry to Revit. Am I missing something here?
2023-10-30 - CW Study_Detached.rvt (14.3 MB)
Diagonal CW Grid.gh (76.4 KB)
2023-10-31_Diagonal CW Systems.3dm (4.7 MB)
This solution ONLY works if you’re able to have a faceted curtain wall
What I ended up doing was subdividing the curtain wall only by the vertical curtain grid (1500 in this instance) and then importing the vertical straight sections to Revit as a mass. This allowed me to create a curtain system that allowed for angled horizontal mullions. The same way a planar curtain wall would.
This way you can move the curtain grids around so that they all are in alignment from one wall to the next. Something I’m about to do in my model haha
