Walls and Curtain Walls - Autodesk Revit Architecture 2015 Essentials - page 52

The host wall will update around the embedded curtain wall to match the new
profile defining the boundary condition.
Curtain panels
Curtain panels are defined as part of the curtain wall type properties. Like the
other curtain wall components, they can also be assigned on an instance basis
or unpinned and changed to another infill type. A curtain panel can be a curtain
panel family, a basic or stacked wall type, or another curtain wall.
adding and removing grids and Mullions
So far in this chapter you have manually added curtain grids and curtain wall
mullions, as well as defined the location for grid lines in the type properties.
A typical curtain wall type in your project may have the majority of the grid
spacing predefined by the type properties. However, you can still add or remove
grid lines.
The objective of the following exercise is to manually add additional grid lines
and curtain mullions to a curtain wall driven by type properties. In addition,
you will remove some of the existing curtain grids to create a larger panel infill.
Then you will continue with a second exercise to modify some of the exist-
ing curtain panel instances in the curtain wall. As part of this exercise you will
focus on adding a curtain panel door to the area where you removed grids and
mullions.
exercise 2.10: add and remove Curtain grids
and Mullions
To begin, open the topic's web page at www.sybex.com/go/revit2015essentials ,
download the files for Chapter 2, and open the file c02-ex-2.10.start.rvt .
This file will be used for this and the following exercise.
1. The starting file should open to the default 3D view. The curtain wall
type Storefront - Door contains type properties for grid distances and
mullion types.
2. Move the cursor over one of the vertical red mullions (colored for
exercise identification), and press the Tab key until the curtain grid is
highlighted.
3. On the ribbon notice that the Add/Remove Segments tool is now
available. This tool appears only when curtain grids are selected.
Click Add/Remove Segments and click the cursor over one of the