Monday, 7 October 2013

Revit and corner curtain wall joins

I am quite mystified why a simple angle junction between CurtainWall or Storefront is so difficult to get to work cleanly- these methods seem to be common but flawed:

This is what I want!

  • Embed ought to be the easiest method as allows simple parameter control of cill and head height. But it doesnt work properly: the intersects don't join as a wall should and you invevitably get a silly stub of parent wall overhanging the "join". And how do you join in a way that Revit doesnt throw up an error?
  • Divide and delete the wall corner and then add back parent wall below cill and above head. The curtain wall does join properly but why should you: windows and doors dont require 2 operation cut hole then add in a hosted component!
  • There are lots of methods posted but none seemed to satisfactorily do it in one.