Okay, I've successfully completed (at least I think so) an exciting VDC project for a Custom exterior wall company in NC. for shop dwgs. Now I need to take this a step further and 'breakdown' what I've done so far into it's pieces. A little to start. The project entails Terra Cotta Tiles and Alum Composite panels. See attached for the Tile mockup. I chose to use CW's for it's flexibilities to 'mass populate' the tiles. I first started with the CW tile as a panel, built the supporting structures as individual families, brought them into the tile panel family, locked inot place, etc. In the overall scheme of things fro a plan and section standpoint, this achieved its purpose beautifully. Now I need to stake this to the next level as this will be going thru Navisworks and tie to Timerliner for construction sequencing, and for Material takeoffs. The 1st issue is that all the supporting structure as I'v built them so far, is the since the individual tiles are roughly 3' w x 2' high, the structure extrusions are also the same approx lengths. In reality , these extrusions are 20-30' long. the 2nd issue ti the ability to marked and tag the individual pieces from a constructions sequencing standpoint when we go to do fabrication andinstallation. Mt first thought was to create 2 seperate cW's..one for the structural, one for the Tiles, and marry them together. On the one hand this may work (at least I think), since this allows individual adjustments of framing vs Tile locations. But the coordination between the 2 cw's could be potentially problematic given the size fo the project. The other thing is that I've never scheduled an CW down to it's lowest part level. Hell I don't know for sure it can even be done. I've done Shared param's in the past for doors, Wdws, etc, so I'm very comfortablefrom that stand point....but not CW's. So now the questions are: Am i crazy? Am I asking too much of RAC? Can these even be done as I've described? I welcome feedback, BOTH GOOD AND BAD, and I PROMISE TO REPORT BACK AND SHARE all That I come up with if I can get it to work as planned. Anyone think I've gone off the deep end?
Mike
Mike


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