Curved Curtain Wall

User question: How can I make glaze and mullion curved in curtain wall?

Actually, it's not very often to have an opportunity to use curved glass in real projects. It's quite expensive. But it is possible to make in real world, so it should be possible in Revit.

Text String Value in Formula

As it is known that string value can't be used for results of  formulas. It means...

At the family above, if the TYPE should be..

if A < B,  TYPE = X

if A > B,  TYPE = Y

if A = B,  TYPE = Z

Document Ready Family

As an architect, one of the most important purpose of using Revit is making documents. Revit supports lots of great features for it. But, to get fine documents without errors, most parts of the building must be made with 3D model. And this can be annoying work sometimes.

Some rooms of buildings have general design guidelines. Restroom is a representative one. It has repetitive toilets, urinals and basins. With Revit and it's parameter, it can be made very easily and rapidly both 3d model & 2d documents.

Here is an example I made.

Visibility of Void

Here is a question.
Is it possible to control visibility of Void in a family?

Slope Arrow without Slope..WHAT???

Yesterday, I saw an old unsolved question at RevitCity by accident.(someone asked it again with point out link)

The point is, Grids of Sloped Glazing align to "world" not the object when it's not sloped. how can make it align to the object without angle input.

And Here is a solution I found.

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.

Don't Let Tool's Name Deceive You

I think the biggest difference between Revit and Autocad is that most of tools in Revit has there objective components like walls, floors, stairs.... But anything can be drawn with lines in Autocad. Sometimes this difference makes work easier, but sometimes the opposite.

But we can take advantage of the tools in Revit more than their names, if we deeply understand how they work. I mean, why do we have to make roofs with Roof tool? Is there any reason not to make stair with Railing tool?

What are you doing Railing?