Revit Facade Cladding

[Hebe Newnam]

Im using AutoCAD for creating shop drawings, detailed drawings, and fabrication orders for the facade, curtain wall, glazing, cladding and louvers, plus Excel for quantity surveying, and I'd like to use Revit and BIM for a smarter process.

Can I create a detailed model on Revit for Curtain wall including all the screws, nuts, Rockwool, glass holders, and the aluminum section, and then extract all the quantities, shop drawing, and fabrication drawings for each mullion and transom and aluminum boxes for cladding fixation?

Long answer: Modelling all the components in a curtain wall system may be overkill and be too complexe a work flow to be productive. What may work for small scale projects will quickly become repetitive and redundant in a larger project. If 100% modelling is still the road you want take, Autodesk Fusion may be the better option.

Everything is working fine except for when we have tricky wall/roof junctions we cannot get the cladding textures to align.. on certain parts of the designs. We really want to use enscape due to its ease and quality of producation however this will not be possible if we cannot align claddings as it is a very obvious issue.

See example pic below where we have a wall with a cladding texture, we then paint the side of the roof above this wall in revit to give the illusion that the cladding runs up there. Because of revits poor UV mapping this makes the enscape texture not aligned. (see pic) This also happens when we have tricky wall junctions in 2 storey houses where the house has not been modelled as one clean wall.

I understand enscape follows what is shown in revits realistic view mode. However we cannot get the textures to align in this view on revit, only the shaded view option with the model lines we can then use the align tool to get the cladding to match, but enscape does not work off this view mode so it does not help us.

Does anyone have any thoughts on how to get past this issue, we could model the walls as one clean face in revit which would solve the issue in enscape but it is considerably more time consuming and difficult in some designs to achieve.

Assign a model pattern (concurrent to the edges of the material texture) to the material and use this model pattern to adjust the location of the material on the wall such that they align. Uusing model patterns in conjunction with textures provides the most predictable workflow to adjust the UV mapping of textures in Revit.

I am trying to create a composite cladding system with repetitive geometric pattern, (i will add the picture of desired look). the problem i have is i don't know how to design this in revit! i think if i used a curtain wall family and added parameters i could make this desired look, but i dont understand how to do this. can anyone help as this is for a project i have at university. P.s i am using revit architecture 2012 and live in the UK.

A curtain panel is a family, too. Since the panel is something that is made to be repeated, the curtain wall simply facilitates the repetition. It's easier than making arrays. And, since this is the facade of a building, it makes more sense to do it as a curtain wall because that would be the appropriate category for this object.

In case of the panel in this thread, the top and bottom are made as in this simplified scheme: the same portion that goes "out" above the upper reference planes, comes "in" above the lower reference plane. Something similar could be made from left to right.

I have tried to replicate the panels you have drawn in your post (Feb 26th). I created an adaptive component for each quadrilaterial but when I try to bring that into a curtain panel family it doesn't allow me to do it. Is the file downloadable of the panels you have created?

Adaptive families cannot be loaded into generic model families. Only the other way around. The previous posts in this thread don't mention anything about adaptive families being used for this. It's a curtain panel family (generic) applied to a curtain wall.

I am trying to have external aluminum cladding finish at certain points external of the wall while having rendered finish beneath it. I have provided a link to a similar building to provide a better idea of the issue. My question is whether it is possible to have two different finishes on the same wall or whether it would be better just separating the walls or any others methods. Any response would be helpful!

1. Create different Wall Types in Revit that will control the exterior aluminum cladding finish. Use your own design techniques to arrange the walls in a way that illustrates the design intent accordingly.

2. Use a Face Based, or even Wall Hosted Revit Family that is for "show" only. Place the panels, and have some Shared Parameters in place so that you can (2a.) control the size and spacing and (2b.) schedule the panels.

Method #1 would be most preferred for accurate wall labeling, scheduling and accurately represent live sections correctly in your Wall Sections sheets. Method #2 would be most preferred for greater depth in controlling visibility in using model components which would be great for bi-directional associativity in your exterior elevations and 3D perspective views of each facade (if any).

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EQUITONE is designed to be installed as a drained and ventilated faade otherwise known as a ventilated rainscreen system. These terms mean that cladding is installed with a cavity behind the panel to allow for air to pass through. The gap between the panels and the exterior wall and the insulation gives the building benefits such as improved energy efficiency, sound insulation, and the prevention of mold and mildew.

Ventilated rainscreen systems start with the anchoring base, which is typically an exterior building board in new construction, or brick or reinforced concrete in a recladding of a current building. The next layer is a weather barrier, followed by the substructure made of either metal or timber. Insulation is added before attaching the faade to the substructure.

The cavity of open space behind the cladding in a rainscreen system allows air to circulate and escape at the top and bottom of the assembly. As such, hot and cold air can travel without penetrating the building. Installation of rainscreens also allows for continuous insulation reducing thermal bridges.

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