How to create windows with different mullions/transoms

[sianopie]

Hello.

Very new to Revit and I am trying to create windows with different styles.
The project I am working on has over 50 different window styles with varying amounts and style of mullions and transoms and I do not know how to create them.
Any advice is much appreciated!

Thanks.
Sian

[DavidLarson]

I created my own windows with nested frame, sash and trim options. Each sash can be different to allow for the very thing you're looking for.

https://www.revitforum.org/architect...-v4-r2015.html is a thread full of doors that have much the same thing going on.

Are you working with windows with angles or curves? If so, better brush up on your trig and calculus.

[Twiceroadsfool]

Speaking of which....

[DavidLarson]

No... just no... I kept mine simple enough that relatively new to revit drafters can make new ones if necessary. It's not like the builder will actually install what we draw anyway

What window does that work with?

[Twiceroadsfool]

No... just no... I kept mine simple enough that relatively new to revit drafters can make new ones if necessary.

Brand new Revit users CAN make new ones, because they dont ever have to interact with- or modify, or touch- these formulas.

It's not like the builder will actually install what we draw anyway

By that logic, why make window families at all? Why not just point to a hole in the wall and say WINDOW HERE?

What window does that work with?

One that's in MY library. Because i dont believe in "dont worry about it, the builder will do what they want."

[DavidLarson]

By that logic, why make window families at all? Why not just point to a hole in the wall and say WINDOW HERE?

It's a bit of a running joke locally. The design build work we do tends to have the builder/client buying and installing whatever they want, not what we drew. I don't really care if the slider I called out gets turned into a double hung with a different muntin pattern. As long as the size doesn't change it's not my problem if they make it look terrible.

[Twiceroadsfool]

By the way, what this family is doing:

Its an Archtop Window, and it has parametric grids in it. But, since arrays cant have flexible parameters themselves AND be different sizes at the same time, you have to choose between: Having completely static families for Grids, or having parametrics and visibility parameters built in to the grids. So i do the latter, for the archtop or other circular sashed windows.

Essentially, it allows a user to pick between 0 and 7 vertical grids, without having to modify anything. They dont ever have to see the parameters, ever have to hit edit family, or ever do any modding. And the formulas are all only one level deep, so there is no intensive processing.

GIF at this link, since RFO wont let me post GIF's for some reason: https://parallaxteam.sharefile.com/d-sf99ea093d014c559

[DavidLarson]

Thanks. I'll have to delve into that sometime soon to see if we need that level of capability.

[Marcel Jansen]

In the Netherlands we use a lot of curtain walls to make normal windows and doors.
We can export those as LOD200 to matrixsoftware, which is used by the manufacturer. They can add all the different mullion and ventilation and what not and then export it. We then can import it as LOD 400.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIULRVgxncA

[Twiceroadsfool]

Its interesting to me that every sample they have in the "Buffet" in that file, has no arcs or curves in it.