Parametric Revit Family Tutorial - Curtain Panel "Chippendale Rail"
In this parametric Revit family tutorial video I walk through the thought process and steps it took to build what we are calling the "chippendale rail". The solution ended up being a fully parametric Revit curtain panel family that had some unique characteristics and demonstrated some really cool Revit family creation techniques.
Thanks to Jak of the BIM After Dark Community (community.bimafterdark.com/) for inspiring this Revit tutorial video!
00:00 Introduction
00:34 BIM After Dark Community
01:15 Photo of the "Chippendale Rail"
02:19 The Completed Test Project
03:17 Parametric Revit Family Thought Process
07:47 Nested Family Diagram
08:39 Start of the Generic Model Family - Reference Planes
12:25 Create the Reference Line Rig
15:00 Make the Parametric Profile
16:58 Model the Geometry (Using Sweeps)
21:03 Load it Into a Curtain Panel Family
23:03 Load it into your Project
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Awesome family
Great job! Congrats from Brazil 👍
Good! You tell a very cool story! I think I can repeat this if necessary :) Thanks!
This is exactly what I needed right now thanks Jeff!
@TheRevitKid
2 жыл бұрын
So glad it helped, Erik!
Awsome bro
Amazing, thank you, clear, concise and easy to follow
@TheRevitKid
Жыл бұрын
Cheers! Thanks for tuning in!
Great video!! Thank you Revit Kid
@TheRevitKid
2 жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed!!!
Man this was great to have my breakfast with. Keep the awesome work!
@TheRevitKid
2 жыл бұрын
Cheers!! Thanks !
Great workflow, thnx 🖤
@TheRevitKid
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks!! Glad you enjoyed
Awesome..!!
@TheRevitKid
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you! Cheers!
Great content Sir...
@TheRevitKid
2 жыл бұрын
Cheers! Thanks for watching!
thank you so much you are the best
@TheRevitKid
2 жыл бұрын
You're welcome!
Nice and thick beard mate, awesome! Tutorial is great!
@TheRevitKid
2 жыл бұрын
Haha thanks on both fronts I guess? Lol
Nice. Good trick w ref lines. One comment would be to keep the side vertical rails out of the panel itself and have that be a mullion type so that you don't have double wide thick verticals at each vertical curtain grid line
@TheRevitKid
2 жыл бұрын
Good point, in this case it would be cleaner to use the mullions and not model those. Cheers!
This is pretty amazing. Thanks for explaining this so well. I wonder - what if you wanted to make the panels not rectilinear?Like add a slope or undulating like a wave shape to make screens or other types of fences where the vertical constraints vary.
@TheRevitKid
11 ай бұрын
Anything can be done... its just a balance of performance over modeling at that point.
Sir, can you make a video on how to prepare the model like setting up location sun settings etc. It would be a reallly big help.
Sir I have done the family but have problem when assigning to the curtain wall .there is a error comes which say ( can't make type curtain panel )
i couldn't do the last step of putting it on the project help please
@TheRevitKid
2 жыл бұрын
Did you load it into your project for the family file? Once you did that… what happened?
@jessicaaleja1106
2 жыл бұрын
@@TheRevitKid yes, but it opens as a object. I can't use it as a curtain wall because it doesn't appear there when I click on the glaze curtain wall
@TheRevitKid
2 жыл бұрын
@@jessicaaleja1106 what family template did you start with? Make sure it is a curtain panel family.
@jessicaaleja1106
2 жыл бұрын
@@TheRevitKid curtain panel
@TheRevitKid
2 жыл бұрын
@@jessicaaleja1106 Start watching around 21:00 .... I talk about how I load the generic model family into a curtain panel family before loading it into the project...
For me it would be "do it in rhino and import it"
@TheRevitKid
2 жыл бұрын
And then redo it every time it changes or make 13 different ones to flex it? Come on now, why not do it in the program your building from??
Sir actually your family start after 8th mints.
Your 3D View looks so colorful and different. Why is that?. Mine looks grey and boring.
@TheRevitKid
2 жыл бұрын
I call it the 70-50-20 rule.... Check out Episode 15 for how to do it (kzread.info/dash/bejne/aZN7xqanpJeyZdY.html). Cheers!
@bibinshree3958
2 жыл бұрын
@@TheRevitKid Thanks, man. You're awesome
@TheRevitKid
2 жыл бұрын
@@bibinshree3958 no no, thank you and you’re awesome! 👍