Interior Design using Autodesk Revit - Curtain Wall Finishes

Understand the basics of curtain walls and a quick overview of the pre-loaded examples within an Architectural template.

How to create a new wall type and edit the some of the construction properties of a wall.

Change the wall function and its ability to embed inside a Basic Wall system family.

File path for the Autodesk empty Curtain Panel family if it is not already loaded in to your file:
C:\ProgramData\Autodesk\RVT 2021\Libraries\UK\Curtain Wall Panels

Learn how to add a Curtain Panel on a Curtain Wall type

Adjust a Curtain Wall type to have a set of gridlines defined by a set criteria:

• Fixed distance

• Fixed number

• Maximum spacing

• Minimum spacing

Understand the difference between type based & instance based properties of a wall type

How to make your own system panel and the properties of a panel

Adjust the thickness and offset of a panel

Importance of the location line of a wall and how the panel sits in relationship to this

Applying a material to the system panel

Understanding how justification works with gridlines

• End, Beginning and Centre justification

• Offsets

• Angles

What does Dependency mean on Curtain Walls

• Dependency of  Curtain Panels

• Dependency of Curtain Wall gridlines

Problems with unpinning panels or gridlines on a type driven system

Reasons for unpinning instances of panels or gridlines and potential applications

How to add mullions to gridlines to further develop a wall finish

• Interior vs border mullions

Creating new types of system mullions

Join connections of mullions along a gridline

Placing mullions manually on a gridline and potential applications/reasons why you may want to do so

Adding a mullion to a gridline and changing its dependency to create a 'rail' or shelf

Adding non-rectilinear mullion such as circular profiles

Brief overview of custom mullions and using mullion profiles

Applying a material to the mullion

• Adding the new mullion to the wall type

Best practice naming of family types

Learn how to change gridline segments for more variation to a wall finish

• Application of this in practice such as a window opening or new materiality

A brief overview of custom Curtain Wall Panels using a loadable family

Learn how to make a custom panel and load this to the wall type within a project

• Extents of the panel within the family

• Creating a 'shadow gap' panel family 

  • Reference planes and family parameters to control certain dimensions

  • Basic behaviour of reference planes and locked dimension parameters

  • Brief overview of the sweep tool

  • Adding material parameters to drawn geometry

  • Adjusting the custom panel within a project based on custom parameters defined within the family

  • Joining geometry within the family

• Limitations of the loadable Curtain Wall Panel

Application of techniques learnt from the previous sections

• Example of a automatically embedded curtain wall type

• Wall constraints

  • Join connections for the end of the wall. Best practice when drawing wall finishes

• Obstacles within a room such as doors or AV equipment

  • Editing the profile of a wall

Altering the justifications of the timber wall

Adding a some writeable surfaces and shelf to the timber wall panelling

• Using gridline segments

• Resetting the profile of a wall

• Nesting a curtain wall within another wall through the curtain panel

• Editing the profile of a wall to insert another wall

Adding a shelf using mullions

Altering the offset of the system panels to sit against the finish face of a wall

Best practice when editing mullions, panels and walls

Creating a new fabric system Curtain Wall type

• Learn how to use mullions to generate shadow gaps

• Understand how curtain panels adjust based on a mullion size

• How system panels behave and can conform to non-rectilinear shapes/cutouts made by editing the profile of a wall

Creating a linear slatted system

• Using the 'Empty' Curtain Wall Panel alongside mullions to create a series of slats

Using the split face tool on a Basic Wall

• Benefits of the tool for 'painting' sections of a wall

Best practice when using the paint tool within Revit