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Tim79

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Hi there,

I would like to be able to cut a complex curtain wall panel using a void. The curtain wall panel is a sort of applied shading facade designed to be applied to the outside of a basic wall. It includes both vertical facade elements and a horizontal shading element above.

I would like to be able to cut the element on an angle in plan so that I can mitre the panels on a corner of a building.

The Void that I have drawn doesn't want to cut anything. Can anyone help?

Please see attached file.

Thanks in advance

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WWHub

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Your process will not work.  If you need to to the cutting in this family rater than the nested families, then create a face based generic faily with a void the cuts the host.  You should make that fully parametric so that you can use it for each elemat you have to cut.  I placed a "screwy" one in your family to show that it works. 

I don't know that your family will work in Revit.  Curtain wall panels are tricky so do some early testing.

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Tim79

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Thanks for that. Up till now, the panel has been working very well - it's just this question of mitering the corner that is getting a little complicated.

I'm keen to try whatever I can, so would like to see how your void family works - both in the main family and within the individual nested families. Is there any chance you could upload your file?

Again - many thanks.

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