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Adding curtain walls

Adding curtain walls - Revit Tutorial

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Adding curtain walls

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- [Voiceover] There are three wall system families in Revit, the basic wall, the stacked wall, and the curtain wall. Basic wall, you may recall, is a series of layers that are sandwiched together and if you look at that wall in any direction, it's the same collection of layers, the same structure throughout. The Stacked wall takes two or more of those basic walls and just simply stacks them on top of one another in the vertical direction. The curtain wall is the most complex of the three Wall families. It can have a series of grids across both it's horizontal and vertical directions and then express those grids using mullions, panels, and creating a complex pattern structure within the mass of the curtain wall. So in this movie, we're going to look at type driven curtain walls and understand the way that we can create a curtain wall type that will set up a regular spacing, and then in a future movie, we'll look at doing a series of grids and mullions manually. So to explore the type…

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