Corner Window in Revit Tutorial

corner windows that's what this tutorial is going to be all about what's going on guys Balkan architecture and welcome to today's tutorial so the topic today is going to be corner windows in rabbet corner windows are quite cool they they can give you a two way look or two sided view throughout if you're building they look cool on the facade and they are a challenge in Revit and the reason for that is windows are traditionally within Revit a wall hosted element they require one wall as a host so what do you do when you have two walls as in as in this case where we have a corner we have to place one window on two hosts and that's the challenge so that's what I'm going to be tackling in this tutorial we have the to approach option so the first approach is going to look like this basically using a curtain wall to create that window and the second approach is going to be this implementing a corner window family and I'm going and I'm going to be explaining how to use the family and also how this type of a family is created but before we get started I would just like to ask you one thing please like this tutorial it helps me out a lot with the YouTube algorithm and if you haven't already I suggest you subscribe just because I make a rabbit tutorials each week so if you want to just get reminded every time I make a tutorial make sure you subscribe also if you want access to all of my project files and to some of my advanced courses I've got like 30 courses out so far they are all over one hour long and they cover numerous advanced Revit topics check out my patreon first link in the description ok with that out of the way let's get into the tutorial so here I am in a rabbit and let's move on to the screen and as you can see here I just get the then the main strings so let's start in your project I'm just going to hit hearing you and I'm going to go with the architectural template let's just hit OK there we go okay so as you can see here I am in just a beginning stage of a project and what I'm going to be doing now is just do a couple of walls so we have our corner now there we go we have two walls and they create a corner so let's place a window inside that corner now the first thing that I'm going to do is just change the units I'm going to type in UN to change the units and let's change them to centimetres that's just what I prefer for this type of a project okay moving on so to do the first type the first version for our corner window we need to use a curtain wall so for that we go to the wall command you can go up here on the architectural tab or alternatively just type in W a and there you go we're inside the wall command now open up the drop menu under properties find the storefront the reason why you want to go with the storefront option is because it includes all of the Malians for all of the other ones you have to kind of add them so that's not fun so let's just go here to storefront and then let's go ahead and make that window now before we start placing the window let's go to properties and let's just change the some of the constraints the base offset I'm going to give it an offset of 40 centimetres so that's going to be the cell height 40 centimeters and the unconnected height is going to be 140 centimeters let's go like that with something like that okay with that out of the way we just go here and we place one window like this and then we go from the same corner like this and there we go we have a corner window now we have multiple problems here so if I just go into 3d and let's just go with realistic here so we can see the model better and as you can see here we have a part of the wall that's covering our corner now this is something that you don't really want to have it's really annoying and it kind of defeats the purpose of having a corner window you can basically place two windows and get the same effect so the reason for this is basically a rabbit is recognizing this as a corner out of these walls and then the curtain wall is kind of just fitting inside of that and it's just leaving this ugly piece of wall so how do you get rid of this well first we have to get rid of our curtain wall in the beginning okay there we go then go back to our level 1 floor plan and what you need to do now is select the wall and go with a wall opening so just click once and you kind of drag it over and there we go we have an opening now you need to select that opening and you have to change it to can imagine the properties of your window so the base offset as we know we has to be the cell height which is 40 centimeters there we go 40 centimeters and the top offset is basically the top of the window now the top of the window is the window is tall is 140 centimeters tall Plus that sill of 40 centimeters give us the value of 180 centimeters so just type that in and for the base constraint let's go with level 1 and the top constraint should be unconnected okay then unconnected height 180 centimeters hit apply and there we go so if we go into 3d that's what this looks like so we need one more of those so let's go back into level 1 and maybe we can make it a bit smaller maybe like this okay so you go for the second wall you go with an opening just like this there we go then you select the opening make sure the top constraint is unconnected the base constraint is 42 the unconnected height is 180 hit apply okay there we go and if we go into 3d this is what that looks like so we got rid of that nasty corner part of the wall and now we can place in our curtain wall so you go back into your level 1 you go to wall or use the shortcut W a you go with a storefront you start off from here go to the middle then click once again go down and there we go it looks like this and it looks weird okay so why don't we take a look at this yeah it can look a bit weird if you want to select both of these just hit the tab key and then you select both so okay let's go here with 180 as well okay there we go go back into level 1 and then you can play a bit here with the properties okay there we go now it looks a bit better but as you can see we have multiple problems here the first one is the thickness of this malian doesn't cover the length of the of the wall or the thickness of the wall so the malian should basically be the thickness of the wall so it covers it so it's kind of acting as some sort of a window frame so we need to match that 200 millimeter measurement but if we select this curtain window go into edit type and if we scroll down over here you're going to notice that we just have the option for let's see what we have here so we have yeah well the five car at the fifty by 150 millimeters and we if we open up the drop menu we don't really have many more options as far as dimensions go so let's cancel out of that menu and let's create a new malian type so what you need to do is go here into your project browser let's open that up find families open up the drop menu and then here find curtainwall mullions open up that drop menu and find rectangular mullions open up that menu and here we go that's there that that this is that 50 by 150 malian right-click duplicate and let's call this 150 by 200 millimeter because the wall is 200 millimeter thickness you double click on this new malian and then just here for thickness change it from 15 to 20 hit enter hit OK and there we go we're done go back here let's select one of these curtain walls go into edit type and here just scroll down and what you want to change is the boarder types so both of the boarder types you don't have to change the interior type what I like to do is just change it on the first one and then select it go control C for copy and then paste it here oops control V there we go and then same thing here control V control V and one more time there we go okay we didn't have to change the interior type we can leave that at whatever okay hit apply okay and there we go so if we just go go ahead here and let's scroll up or let's go here into level 1 as you can see now it's the malian is kind of fitting the thickness of the wall and that's what you want to have now the other thing that you want to have is this corner here salt so if I take a look here as you can see we have these two mullions and they pretty much look out of place so what you need to do here is select both of the Malians so you select the first one then you select the second one but hold on froakie's so you can make a a multiple selection and then what you want to do is unpin those to open up the drop menu here and let's go with the l malian you select the L mullion and you get something that looks like this now you get this pop up menu and basically it says that you have two overlapping mullions there the reason for that is just because we have to corner Mullins now overlapping in the center just because we replaced two of them with one so just get delete elements so instead of having two it's going to have one and that's pretty much solve problem okay but still this is too thick and if we go into 3d as you can see it looks way too large so you want to fix that one again go back to the project browser go here let's collapse that rectangular menu but let's open up the L corner menu open up the L corner mullion and here for the thickness I'm going to go with 4 centimeters and also let's change the offset by 4 centimeters as well hit apply okay and this looks as you can see much smaller if we go back into level 1 as you can see this looks much much cleaner and nicer now if we go here into 3d as you can see here on the bottom we have some trouble or just this doesn't look right so what you want to do is just select that l emollient and then click here to kind of toggle the modeling join and now it looks a bit better let's go up here same thing here and they are still not overlapping correctly so what you want to do is go back into level one and then just play a little bit with these oops with these curtain walls let's go like this now if it's still not working what you can do is select this bottom mullion and then you get this also this toggle mullion icon and then when you click it it's going to kind of toggle it and as you can see now we have a clean joint do the same thing here on top so just like the malian and then do this this little button here a toggle mullion join and as you can see we have a clean or look and as you can see this looks like a pretty decent corner window maybe if we change the wall material into something a bit nicer let's go with something white let's you have a white wall I don't know let's go with something like this there we go this looks pretty nice so there we go we have a corner window using these using just a curtain walls now the downside of this is the fact that these are curtain walls so your might you might be thinking well that's really nice but how do you categorize that how do you create schedules later on and things like that well to solve this problem what you need to do is just go ahead and select the whole the whole corner window go ahead here to modify and find create and just go with create assembly and it's going to give you a warning just don't just let's just ignore that and now we can call this our corner window hit enter and there we go we have our corner window assembly and we can actually go into edit type and just enter some of the data if we want we can even add the type the description the cost maybe a URL to the link of the manufacturer things like that so that's basically how you solve your corner windows using using basically curtain walls but let's do it with a single family so for the second one let's go here back into level one let's do another wall so I'm just going to go here to wall let's go with D 200 millimeters generic and just like this okay let's change this to zero and unconnected I think it should go up to 800 to match the other ones okay there we go okay so once we have these two walls what I'm going to do now is go back into a level one and let's a load in a family so I'm going to go here to window let's go to a load family and here just on my desktop I have a quarter window family saved up so let's open that up and let's place it here so as you can see this is what that looks like so just place it here and it looks kind of weird that's because it's parametric and you really have to set up the angles so in this case we have a ninety ninety degree angle but we can change that we can maybe make a I don't know let's go with a 120 degree angle and then what you need to do is just select the family and change the angle here the wall angle to 120 degrees and there we go so just kind of place it here now in this case if we selected the wall thickness is at 15 let's change that to 20 to match this one and then let's just use the arrow keys cannon hundred in place okay it's a good idea to change the wall thickness to something even larger like 30 just so you get the correct avoid but there we go we have a corner window now here you can make maybe some additional changes but if you go into 3d basically you have that corner window and it looks perfect and it actually doesn't really have any elements over here in the middle so it's a little bit better perhaps than our curtain wall corner window now the downside of this window is the fact that that it's a family and it's really difficult to model so let me show you basically the approach to modeling something like this if you have to go here L is going to edit type and then if we take a look at this it's a family that's only hosted on one wall but the opening is a void so it's a void extrusion so if we go into reference plane as you can see here we have this line that's connected to this angle parameter that controls the angle of the window and then all of these window elements they are modeled as you can see here as sweeps so if you go here to edit that as you can see here we have a sweep that goes along this line just like that there we go so we have a sweep so basically you have to create one parameter that can I tilt that that window and then you would host a bunch of sweeps on that if we escape out of this yeah let's discard that even the glass even this a glass here is modeled as a sweep that's going along this line now if you want to learn more about families in Revit advanced parametric families families that have this rotating parameter check out those courses on my patreon first a link in the description I have a few courses on families and I have actually one course that covers parametric doors that open up so that's basically the same approach that we have with this window over here okay so that pretty much covers this tutorial on corner windows in a rabbet if you want to download these families again as I said my patreon first link in the description you can get access to all of my project files not only this one but pretty much all of them like 300 files so far and of course all of the advanced courses okay so that covers this tutorial and i'll be back with another balkan architect tutorials in a few days thank you for watching and have a nice day

Channel: Balkan Architect

Views: 64,898

Keywords: Revit, tutorial, english, learn, BIM, building information modeling, easy, fast, quick, how to, autodesk, modeling, corner, window, architecture, family

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Length: 16min 8sec (968 seconds)

Published: Sun Aug 11 2019