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Master It How do you create a rendering environment that replaces the actual materials
with matte materials in order to study the effects of lighting on your design?
Solution Until View Filters allows rendered materials to be overwritten in a view, use
phasing. Create a filter that overrides the materials, and assign this analytic filter to the
view that you’re rendering with lights. After you achieve the desired lighting effects, start
re-rendering the view showing the actual materials.

Chapter 12: Creating Walls and Curtain Walls

Use extended modeling techniques for basic walls. Walls in Revit are made from layers of
materials that can represent generic placeholders for design layouts to complete assemblies
representative of actual construction.
Master It How can you customize the profile of a wall?
Solution A wall can be attached to another object such as a roof, floor, or reference
plane. Select a wall, activate the Attach Top/Base tool, and pick the object to which the
wall should be attached. You can also edit the profile of a wall in elevation by selecting a
wall, activating the Edit Profile tool, and modifying the sketch of the wall.
Create stacked walls. Exterior walls are usually composed of several combinations of
materials with varying thicknesses. These various wall types can be combined into a single
entity called a stacked wall.
Master It How do you create a stacked wall?
Solution You must duplicate an existing stacked wall type within a project. In Type
Properties, open the Edit Assembly dialog box and add any combination of basic walls
into the stacked wall structure.
Create simple curtain walls. A curtain wall is an assembly of parts including curtain
grids, panels, and mullions. They can be created in predefined types with regular horizontal
and vertical spacing along with specific panel and mullion types.
Master It How do you add a door to a curtain wall?
Solution Use the Tab key to select a single panel in a curtain wall segment. If the panel
is part of a predefined system, you must unpin the panel first. From the Type Selector,
choose a curtain panel door family.
Create complex curtain walls. The Revit conceptual massing environment can be used to
create complex curtain wall configurations. Pattern-based panel families can be loaded into
the massing environment and populated on a divided surface. These populated surfaces can
then be loaded and placed in a project model for documentation and scheduling.
Master It How do you create a complex divided surface?
Solution From the Recent Files window, select New Conceptual Mass. Add a second
level to the family and draw a curved line on each level. Select the two lines and click
Create Form; choose the Planar Surface option. Select the new form and click the Divide
Surface button on the ribbon.

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