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The Wine – Conceptual Design API
Curtain Panel
•Special mass families built on a sample grid (similar to the host wall in a window/door family).
•When applied to a divided surface, the Revit creates Family Instances of the panel on the surface’s grid
•New properties
Family.IsCurtainPanelFamily
Family.CurtainPanelHorizontalSpacing
Family.CurtainPanelVerticalSpacing
Family.CurtainPanelTilePattern
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This comes next in creating geometry in the workflow in new massing environment. The panels match up with the tile patterns, for example, we have arrow shaped tile patterns shown and the panel template for the arrows - the special reference points in the grid correspond to arrow shape and the patterns. And the Sample grid would be mapped on to the divided surface grid applied to the surface. With this, we can create 3 dimensional panel geometry and in extreme case, we created a porcupine egg as shown here. All the form making tools available in the API for the mass family can also be created in the curtain panel templates.