HOW TO CREATE THESE BRICK SCREEN WALL IN REVIT?

HOW TO CREATE THESE BRICK SCREEN WALL IN REVIT?

1. Introduction to curtain walls
2. Building the 2 Brick Segment 
3. Assigning Material two the Brick Segment
4. Building the Brick Screen Wall 
5. Fixing Common Issues

1. Curtain Wall Panel
This type of panel is incorporated in the curtain wall because 
Curtain wall has the ability to use different panels .

Create Metric Curtain Wall Panel
Curtain walls are made out of panels.
Open new family – Curtain wall panel.

 

2. Building the 2 Brick Segment

Modelling Bricks

• Go to exterior elevation

• Add a additional reference plane in the mid of the elevation and make equal.

• Alter the height of the reference as 120mm which is the height of two bricks (60mm+60mm).

• Create brick-1 profile using File- Extrusion

• Rectangle

• Assign dimension for the brick and make it equal.

• Brick length is 250mm and from mid of brick assign 125mm.

• Create another brick with in the height of 120mm in an overlapping manner as shown in the figure.

• Lock the dimensions of 125mm and 60mm for two bricks created

• Assign Extrusion End =60mm and Extrusion Start = -60mm for both brick extrusion created

 

Elevation view changing height to 120mm          Adding reference and making equal

                               

Create - Solid extrusion -rectangle

  

Assign height and width and lock it                  Set End and Start Extrution

                           

Two brick panel created

3. Assigning Material

• Under Material and finish – open the Material browser

• Select the Exposed masonry.

• Some alterations are done to remove the entire course of brick as we are going to apply only for two bricks.

• Under Graphics note down the color of the material.

• Under Appearance uncheck the relief pattern.

• Under Appearance in the Image drop down box select color and enter the color noted down previously.

Select Exposed Masonry - note down the color                      Uncheck Relief pattern

Under Image select color                                              Enter the color nos

• Save the Family with a name (Two brick panel)

• Load into the project.

4. Creating Brick Screen wall 

• Create a Exterior glazing wall with certain height

• Under Edit type of that particular wall Assign the following:

1.  Curtain panel : Two Brick panel (Family which is saved and loaded into the project)
2.  Vertical Grid:

          Layout : Maximum spacing
          Spacing : 380 (can be altered based on view)

    3.  Horizontal Grid:          

          Layout : Fixed distance
          Spacing : 120 (Height of two brick it should not be altered)

Createing External glazing                             Edit type Inputs

5.Fixing Common Issues

Fix the one Brick layer problem on top.

• Select one right click

• Select panel- Along Horizontal grid

• Un pin them

• Delete by choosing Properties as 

• System panel - empty

Selction of top layer of brick which is not aligned

                   

                                       Unpin it                                    Select Empty

Final screen wall playing with horizontal spacing