Manipulating Nested Family

Lintels are necessary when doors or windows are on a masonry wall.

Then, how can they placed in Revit?

1. Make another door family which has nested lintel family.

It's easy but two families for one same door because of only lintel? And how can make lintel schedule and tags for lintel? And if a wall type changes?

2. Place separated lintel family in a project. then easy to make lintel schedule.

But, finding, placing, aligning....it's so annoying.

Here is the way I use.

Praise Pythagoras.

When a window family with arched lintel is necessary and height has to be controlled, what kind of parameters have you been using?

1. Angle based method

A arched lintel maintains it's angle if it has no parameters. It's just simple.

Curved Pattern and Mapping

User question: How can I make arched brick lintel in Revit?

Like this one?

Well, at first, making models of each bricks which is straightforward can be tried. Of course, it's not very difficult to make it with array or some other features in Revit. But is it necessary? Then why don't we make model of each bricks for walls??