Walls and Curtain Walls - Autodesk Revit Architecture 2015 Essentials - page 45

FigUre 2.20 Final instance-based curtain wall
Curved Curtain panels
Curved curtain-wall segments that you create will appear flat until you add
the vertical grid lines. But specifying exact grid locations during the design
process is often tedious—and difficult to correct. To help, you can create a
design panel from a specially created wall that is very thin and transparent.
Use this wall to figure out the design, and then swap it out for a curtain wall
later. The wall can even have a pattern file associated to it that visually helps
it to read as a curtain panel. You can find an example of this type of wall in
c02-Curtain Walls.rvt ( c02-Curtain Walls Metric.rvt ), which
is available with this chapter's exercise files.
In the previous exercise you were able to modify the curtain grids and hosted
mullion locations using temporary dimensions, since the curtain type proper-
ties did not have any set spacing parameters. In the next exercise the objective is
to set some type property values for spacing and mullion types.