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mhbn4

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Hi everyone

Please help me for puting curtainwall into legent sheets

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WWHub

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You can put curtain wall components in a legend but not curtainwalls.  We elevate each unique CW separately using a callout from the elevation (which we hide).

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nematsvehclav

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This is ridiculous. Why on Earth would one be able to put all sorts of walls as legend components, but curtain walls? Simply has to be fixed...

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This is NOT ridiculous!  Curtain walls are not individual items like walls are and they need to be elevated to properly show them.  If you look, you can't do elevation legends of a wall either, just plan and section legends.

If curtain walls were fixed elements like walls are, then they would have already created the ability but they are not defined that way.

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mhbn4

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thank you so much

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gpktm

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YES IT IS RIDICULOUS. It doesn't matter what curtain walls are, it matters how they been used in the drawing principles. The program cannot dictate the drawing principles, the program must be dictated by them. Simple as that. So don't say is not ridiculous trying to justify a program that is full of workardounds because lazy Autodesk is a "monopoly" and they don't listen to their customers request. Say "yes is ridiculous, but... (and try to explain the reason)"

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Bartholomew

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LOL! So, gpktm, what you’re saying is:  if you can’t hammer a nail with a screwdriver, it’s the screwdriver’s fault.  Hmm…

Revit is a toolbox. That’s all it is, dude.  

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Anthiv

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If you convert curtainwalls into Assemblies, then you can add them as legend components.

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palydezign

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Brilliant, thank you very much for you valuable answer. You seem to be the only one out of the above who knows the software well. Very much appreciated

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paldezign,

Be careful about your deductions.  I see that you are new to this site today and probably fairly new to Revit. 

Many of us here have been around a lot longer and have watched Revit get better with every release.  Assemblies were first introduced in 2012, the year this thread was started.  Quite frankly, I can not remember the functionality of that new command at that time since it was 8 years ago but even then it was not what it was just a year later yet alone today.  As an example, here is how it ws changed in 2013: https://www.ideateinc.com/blog/2012/05/new-parts-and-assemblies-functionality

Also in many offices, we were reluctant to fully adopt a new release until enough of the bugs were worked out.

So again, be careful about throwing stones and I hope you become a good CONTRIBUTING member.

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